MWI Podcast

MWI Podcast: Europe’s Airspace Violations and the Counterdrone Challenge

John Amble | 10.15.25

Late on the night of September 9, twenty-one medium-sized, fixed-wing drones were detected...

MWI Podcast: The Military Technological Arms Race in Ukraine

John Amble | 10.04.25

A drone optimized for a new mission. A development of a new tactic to employ unmanned systems. An...

MWI Podcast: China’s Strategic Competition with the United States

John Amble | 09.05.25

The December 2017 release of a new US National Security Strategy was, in key ways, a watershed...

MWI Podcast: The Army and Tomorrow’s Technologies

John Amble | 08.20.25

The US Army is in a period of transformation. And unsurprisingly, a big part of that...

MWI Podcast: The US Military’s Critical Minerals Challenge

John Amble | 07.26.25

The US government established the National Defense Stockpile in 1939 to ensure that in the event...

MWI Podcast: Bunker Busters and B-2s

John Amble | 07.02.25

In June, when the United States conducted Operation Midnight Hammer—a series of strikes against...

MWI Podcast: The US Defense Industrial Base, from Steel to Software

John Amble | 06.11.25

US military readiness rests on an array of critical components. Recruitment and retention of...

MWI Podcast: A Survey of Europe’s Defense and Security Landscape

John Amble | 05.31.25

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it galvanized both NATO and the European...

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