Live at the National WWI Museum!
Bombshell
Bombshell
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Loren and Erin travel to Kansas City for a special live recording at the National World War I Museum. Joined by John Ismay and Steve Leonard, they dig into the many aspects of the Forever Wars including some Civ-Mil 101, opportunities for oversight and accountability, and everyone's favorite GWOT film.
Links
- Amy Schafer, "Generations of War," CNAS
- Conflicting Partisan Priorities for U.S. Foreign Policy, Pew Research Center
- Nikki Wentling, “Tom Hanks Thinks Hollywood Isn't Best Suited to Tell Stories of Iraq, Afghanistan Wars," Stars and Stripes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On December 4th, Lauren and Aaron hosted a live taping of bombshell at the World War I Museum in Kansas City, |
| 0:06.6 | joined by New York Times journalists and former Navy EOD Tech John Nismay, and Steve Leonard, |
| 0:12.1 | KU professor, former military strategist, and the creative force behind Doctrine Man. |
| 0:16.7 | The crew discussed the American public's understanding of the Forever Wars. |
| 0:20.5 | Who fights? To what end, with what government oversight, and what civic obligation in these conflicts |
| 0:25.8 | looks like? This taping was presented in partnership with the Center for Civilians in Conflict |
| 0:31.1 | and opened the government. Hello. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to a live recording of the bombshell podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Lauren D. Young-Shullman. |
| 0:54.4 | And I'm Aaron Simpson, and those of you who aren't related to me |
| 0:57.3 | went to college with me. |
| 0:58.5 | So thank you very much for coming to the World War I Museum |
| 1:02.1 | in Kansas City this evening. |
| 1:04.2 | It is freezing cold in December in the Midwest, |
| 1:07.3 | and we're still really, really excited to be here. |
| 1:10.7 | We have Steve Leonard from the University of Kansas, |
| 1:13.6 | John Ismay from the New York Times. And as ever, we have lots to talk about. So as a quick |
| 1:25.6 | background for those of you who have not listened to the podcast before, |
| 1:28.9 | Aaron and I and our other co-host, Rada Iyengar, started the bombshell podcast in January 2017 |
| 1:35.5 | with the idea that national security was something that we talked about a lot in Washington |
| 1:41.0 | in the most esoteric, academic, |
| 1:44.7 | unapproachable terms possible. |
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