The Net Assessment Crew Sits Down with Ryan

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The title says it all! If you missed episodes of our show "Net Assessment" over the summer and fall, you aren't alone. Zack Cooper, Melanie Marlow, and Christopher Preble join Ryan for a discussion about the show, about what's happening in the world, and what we can expect from Net when it comes back next month.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on Strategy, Defense and Foreign Affairs.
0:13.7	My name is Ryan Evans. I'm the founder of Worn the Rocks and I'm sitting here with three old personal friends and professional friends of the show,
0:20.5	the hosts of Net Assessment, Chris Preble of the Stimston
0:24.6	Center, Melanie Marla of CSIS, and Zach Cooper of a little think tank
0:30.0	startup, a little outfit called the American Enterprise Institute.
0:33.2	Yeah, this is what I get for calling war on the rocks of blog.
0:36.2	Yeah, I think it's, you know, I don't know if A.
0:39.9	I got any big big named funders yet or I think it's just like people it's like
0:44.0	Bernie Sanders donors just mailing in a dollar here a dollar there right you know I'm
0:48.5	just gonna note that there was a new aye for a little while that that Chris was a new aeye for a little while that Chris was affiliated with and the old a
0:56.8	I has made it. We're now the new aeye actually in fact. That's right. I'm having you all on the show to draw attention
1:06.2	to the fact that net assessment is coming back after a summer and fall hiatus. Probably
1:09.8	record our first episode back after Thanksgiving, which I'm very excited about. But for
1:16.1	your fans out there, what have you guys been up to this summer and fall? I have
1:20.2	mostly been focused on a project that I'm working on with Michael Cohen and
1:25.4	Monica Duffy Toft at the Fletcher School at Tufts on Afghanistan. We have
1:31.7	identified a series of key assumptions that we believe were sort of guiding or
1:38.8	misguided US policy in Afghanistan from 2001 through 2021 and we have been sort of really I've thrown myself
1:48.6	into it to a certain extent Michael is sort of the principal writer and we have a couple fantastic researchers there at Fletcher.
1:56.2	So that's been a good project and I've learned a lot.
1:59.3	We did spin off an article tied to the Israel-Hamas war of a sort of drawing parallels
2:04.5	between the US response to 9-11 and the Israeli response to 10-7 which was in
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