In Space, No One Can Hear you Scream
Sirens: A Bombshell production
Bombshell
4.8 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Special guest Amy Shafer joins us for the full show and highlights her fabulous research on the civil-military divide in America (and dishes on the Air Force Tops in Blue). Then we celebrate the liberation of Mosul, walk through the North Korean missile test, and wonder what exactly happened at the G20 meetings. Also on the table: Whither our Afghan strategy? And Erin gets giddy over space marines. Stick around for our “Game of Thrones” preview!*
*By which we mean fan-girl shouts of joy and anticipation.
Reading:
- Generations of War, Amy Shafer, CNAS
- “The ISIS Killers,” Mike Giglio, Buzzfeed
- “Mosul: What the Decade's Largest Battle Says About the Future of War,” Defense One Staff, Defense One
- “These Mindblowing Photos Reveal the Horror of the Islamic State War,” Liz Sly, The Washington Post
- “ISIS: A catastrophe for Sunnis,” Liz Sly, The Washington Post
- “Inside the Collapse of the Iraqi Army’s 2nd Division,” Yasir Abbas and Dan Trombly, War on the Rocks
- “Scared About North Korea? You Aren't Scared Enough,” Toby Harshaw, Bloomberg
- “North Korea’s ICBM: A New Missile and a New Era,” Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang, War on the Rocks
- “Looking For Details On Syria Ceasefire? Don’t Ask US Military,” Nancy Youssef, Buzzfeed
- “A proposed new military branch would send US troops to guard the galaxy,” CNN
- “My Top Ten Favorite Space Marines,” A Space Blog Odyssey
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bomb Shell. This is Erin Simpson, Lauren DeYoung-Soulman, and special guest, Amy Schaefer. |
| 0:18.7 | Amy, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. So this week, Rada is, |
| 0:23.0 | has escaped to California for a few days. We brought in the wonderful and talented Amy Schaefer, |
| 0:28.4 | a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, to somehow manage to feel Rada shoes. |
| 0:34.9 | I don't really know if that's possible since. Oh, I think it's going to be okay. It'll be fine. I mean, it's more concerned about the fact that Rada only wears |
| 0:41.3 | Rathis. It's true. Rada does only wear Rathis these days. We're all wearing very comfortable |
| 0:47.1 | flats today, I have to say, because we've entered the swampy part of the summer where fashion |
| 0:50.9 | really starts, we start making compromises. |
| 0:54.5 | That still doesn't mean anybody should be wearing pleaded pants. |
| 0:56.5 | I want to make sure that's clear from last episode. |
| 0:59.3 | So, Amy, welcome. |
| 1:01.0 | Before we get started, Lauren, what are we drinking? |
| 1:05.0 | We are drinking the random wine that was in my office. |
| 1:08.9 | Because, like, honestly, guys, it's just been that kind of week like between |
| 1:12.0 | the g20 and everything else like it's only monday whatever recording i know i just whatever i just |
| 1:17.1 | whatever so the random wine that was sitting a door in my office was actually quite good it is by |
| 1:21.8 | chesa bro chisbrough la grava arroyo sec Red Wine, which I think is part of the wine that my parents |
| 1:27.8 | sent us from Sonoma somewhere. |
| 1:31.0 | Thanks, parents. |
| 1:31.3 | So, thanks, Mom and Dad. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:33.5 | We continue to enjoy your generous alcohol provision here at the bombshell podcast. |
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