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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Army and Navy Club in Washington, DC, hosted Loren and Radha this week for a live show. Lara Seligman of Foreign Policy and Valerie Insinna of Defense News joined the Bombshell crew to discuss defense journalism in the Trump administration, what it's like to cover a 17 year old war, and the most mayhem of mayhem weeks the White House has had in the last year. To listen to the audience Q&A for this episode, sign up for the War Hall at https://warontherocks.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Last week, the bombshell crew did a live show at the Army Navy Club in downtown Washington, D.C.
0:15.8	Rada and Lauren were joined by Valerie Encina from Defense News and Laura Seligman from Foreign Policy.com.
0:22.5	If you want to hear the Q&A from this episode, sign up for The War Hall at War on the Rocks.com.
0:32.6	Well, so the best guest that we could possibly find for our gathering here today were Laura Saligman,
0:40.3	who is the Pentagon correspondent for foreign policy, and Valerie Insana, who has just come back
0:46.3	from Iceland, where she got married.
0:48.3	So congratulations, Valerie.
0:50.3	Who is the Air Warfare Reporter for Defense News, and we are so excited to have them.
0:56.8	I've been trying to get Valerie on the show for months now, so this has worked out perfectly.
1:02.1	So can you explain?
1:03.5	Why do we do bombshell questions?
1:05.5	Well, I think our one, we really want to know what people think about data.
1:10.7	We thought that initially when bringing on guests, one part of our show was to understand
1:15.6	that we're human beings working on national security and foreign policy issues.
1:19.6	And so part of the bombshell questions is to help us and to help you guys sort of understand
1:24.6	fun facts and exciting insights on our guests that maybe help make things
1:30.0	a little bit more personal and a little bit more accessible.
1:32.8	Yeah, because as much as there is a civil-military divide in this country that I think
1:36.5	a lot of us still passionately about, there's also a divide between those who work on these
1:40.7	issues every day and the rest of the country who just don't quite understand.
1:44.8	Like, Lauren, why do you care so much
1:47.0	about what's going on in Afghanistan?
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