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John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, national security and military analyst, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare, military strategy, tactics, and other related topics. Considered one of the world’s leading experts on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy.
He’s authored over 130 articles in our leading intellectual publications. He is the author of three books, including The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender, which was translated into 16 languages.
Robert A. Pape is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in international security affairs. His commentary on international security policy has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, as well as on Nightline, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. Before coming to Chicago in 1999, he taught international relations at Dartmouth College for five years and air power strategy for the USAF's School of Advanced Airpower Studies for three years. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1988 and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in 1982. His current work focuses on the causes of suicide terrorism and the politics of unipolarity. He is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats.

0:00 Introduction
3:36 Coin Toss Decision
5:30 Robert Opening Pape's Argument
11:20 John Spencer's Counterargument
15:53 Pape Responds
29:53 Assessing Hamas's Strategic Goals
34:00 Critique on Planning for the Future
37:13 Rebuilding Democracy in the Middle East
41:01 Pape's Preferred Israeli Strategies for October 8th
42:46 Creating a Wedge Strategy
47:09 Insights from General McChrystal
49:42 Differing Military Strategies
50:23 Debating Military Approaches
51:38 Winning Battles vs. Winning Wars
55:58 Political Power Dynamics
59:00 Importance of Words in Strategy
1:01:27 Acknowledging Past Mistakes
1:04:53 Counterinsurgency Strategies
1:08:36 Role of Threat in Strategy
1:10:20 Separating Militant Groups
1:12:05 Achieving Strategic Objectives
1:12:09 Counterinsurgency Tactics
1:14:20 Importance of Meaningful Conversations
1:14:38 Sharp Arguments and Surviving Contact with the Enemy

Elie Honig is CNN's senior legal analyst, a former federal and state prosecutor and the bestselling author of Hatchet Man.

Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason, the libertarian magazine of "free minds and free markets," and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

Partisanship or principle? IMHO, one of the best and most reasonable liberal analysts of the current Supreme Court, discusses Trump's immunity and Chevron's reversal decisions and what motivated them.

Also, Cannon's dismissal.

Contributor for New York magazine, also The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Atlantic, TIME, USA Today, WIRED, Slate, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

The former chief of Israel's internal intelligence agency discusses all things Gaza, Hamas, Israel, peace talks, and more.

Buy his book Friendly Fire, How Israel Became its Own Worst Enemy: https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Fire-Israel-Became-Future/dp/1586422588

In a remarkable and candid conversation, Glenn Loury discusses his new book "Late Admissions," and his amazing, checkered, erratic, inspirational, and dramatic life.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:37 Performing the book for Audible
00:05:04 Had to be Honest to be Believed
00:09:09 A Gifted Family
00:15:22 Understanding Slavery and History
00:20:07 Constant Self-Doubt and Inferiority Complex
00:26:11 Betraying a Best Friend
00:32:25 Decoding Glenn's Politics from His Life
00:32:57 Stealing a Car
00:38:54 A Child Is Born
00:39:54 Glenn's Son's Gift to His Father
00:47:34 Glenn's Heroic Father
00:49:05 Glenn feels Put Off by Middle-Class Blacks
00:57:13 Arrested
01:03:14 Modern Hypocrisy
01:05:29 Speaking in Tongues
01:09:33 Smoking Crack
01:20:21 Called the N-Word
01:24:00 Final Remarks on Humanity