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I'm Erin Dietrich, and your host is Dr. Andrew Hammond, the museum's historian and curator, coming up next on Spycast.

I don't need that kind of money. I don't need that. It's very cheap to work in the realm of ideas, and that's my corner of the realm is ideas.

So that's what I'm bringing to this. We're going to let that industrial complex keep churning out the planes and the tanks and all of that because it's important, and it makes the people that like it happy.

So we'll let them keep doing that, but while they're doing that, we're also going to work this little insurgency on the other side to convince people that there's other ways to deal with these irregular problems globally.

Dennis Walters enlisted in the US Army in 1983, and was selected as one of the original members of a reactivated Ranger battalion.

He served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the first armored division before being commissioned into the Army Intelligence Corps.

He went on to pass the Special Forces Qualification course and speaks fluent Russian. In 2009, he retired from the Army and began building a global network of irregular warfare professionals for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.

Work, he continues to this day as the Acting Director of the recently set up Irregular Warfare Center.

In this episode, Andrew and Dennis discuss, if regular warfare is, well, regular, what is Irregular Warfare? What role does intelligence play in its execution? What role does it play in keeping the country safe?

How do intelligence and special operations blend together? And how does Dennis' experience feed into his role?

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Can you just tell us a little bit more about the Irregular Warfare Center?

Absolutely, Andrew. Thank you for inviting me first. This was quite an opportunity for us to come out and introduce ourselves and sort of tell the world about what we do and what we're going to do and what the center is.

And it's interesting that when, you know, almost every time I start to speak about the center, everyone assumes that we're new.

And in some respects, we are actually new. But in other respects, we've been doing this for over a decade. And so that's where I kind of like to start is sort of on the foundation of the underpinning of the center itself and where we came from.

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