PODCAST: Around the World, Ep. 1

War on the Rocks

News, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

At War on the Rocks, we are re-vamping our podcast series. We will be holding one podcast a week. The first of each month will be 'round the world. We will discuss the most pressing global security issues...over drinks of course. Have a listen! This week, we were joined by: Richard Fontaine, President of the Center for a New American Security Frank Hoffman, Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies (all of his opinions are his own, of course, and not those of NDU, the Dept. of Defense, or the U.S. government) Justin T. Johnson, Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy at the Heritage Foundation Afshon Ostovar, a Middle East analyst at CNA Mira Rapp-Hooper, the Director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at CSIS Erin Simpson, CEO of Caerus Associates.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a very special edition of the War on the Rocks podcast series.
0:03.3	I mean they're all actually special, but this one's especially special because it's the first
0:07.7	one being filmed at War in the Rocks office space at We Work here in DC, which we're able to pay to, in large part thanks to you, readers who
0:16.1	supported our crowdfunding campaign.
0:17.6	So thank you.
0:18.6	It's made a big difference in our ability to be awesome.
0:21.4	And we have a new website rolling out next week,
0:23.0	which hopefully will like as much as we do.
0:26.3	We're here to talk about everything in the world today.
0:29.5	So the way we're gonna be doing more on the Rock's podcast
0:31.3	is we're gonna have four a month now. The first one of the month is going to be
0:34.8	about global issues. The other three are going to be about specific issues. So
0:39.2	today we have a great group here to talk about the whole world.
0:44.0	Starting on my right, we got Richard Fontaine,
0:45.8	president of the Center for New American Security.
0:48.2	We got Mira Rat Hooper at the Asia Maritime Transparency
0:51.7	Initiative at CSIS.
0:53.0	We have Afshon-ostevar at the Center for Strategic Studies
0:56.8	at the Center for Naval Analysis, or CNA Corporation,
1:00.2	which is what we're not supposed to call.
1:01.6	Just CNA. Just C it? Just CNA.
1:03.0	Just CNA.
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