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  • Dreams of War in Space

    October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Air Force Secretary Troy Meink casually dropped the news that America had space-based weapons during the keynote address at a cyber conference. “We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space…

  • Human Decisions Are Behind Every ‘Rogue’ AI

    October 2, 2026 · 60 min

    A lot of people are afraid right now. I’ve lost track of the times OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have announced they lost control of their AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to “pace the frontier” and Bill Gates is warning there’s a…

  • The Cult of the American Military Academy

    August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Journalist Jasper Craven joins the show today to talk about his new book God Forgives, Brothers Don’t. The book is a deep dive into the history of the American military academy and how it has shaped the country’s conception of manhood…

  • If You Must Fight a Trade War, Fight to Win

    July 3, 2026 · 55 min

    The world I grew up in no longer exists. The decades after World War II were boom times for free trade lovers. During the Pax Americana it seemed that most diplomatic problems could be solved by exporting blue jeans and lowering the cost…

  • Iran Won Because America Is Stuck in the ‘Smart Bomb Trap’

    June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Recorded in May. Join angryplanetpod.com to hear episodes early and commercial free. America’s war against Iran has gone on for more than two months and the United States has achieved none of its political objectives. American power has…

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  • Navigating Reality and War During the Age of AI Propaganda

    June 5, 2026 · 59 min

    On the morning of April 21, Trump posted an image of eight women on Truth Social, claimed they were Iranian dissidents set to be executed, and demanded that Tehran release them. Detractors, and several Iranian sources, claimed the women…

  • Christianity Shaped North Korea’s Cult of Personality

    May 8, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Kim Song Ju, the man who would become Kim Il Sung, was born to devout Presbyterian parents. Billy Graham’s wife was born to christian missionaries in China and went to high school in Pyongyang. American protestants once spread the gospel…

  • Making the Case America Was Winning in Iran

    April 10, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Recorded March 24, 2026. Subscribe at angryplanetpod.com to hear episodes first and commercial free. Last week an article published in Al Jazeera by an academic at the University of Doha in Qatar proposed something that felt crazy to some…

  • Neutralizing Iran’s Nuclear Material During a War Is ‘Nearly Mission Impossible’

    March 27, 2026 · 54 min

    America went to war in Iran, we’re told, because the idea of the country developing nuclear weapons was intolerable. Nukes are complicated and technical weapons that require scientists and experts to build, maintain, and manage. Highly…

  • The ‘AI as Nuclear Weapons’ Obsession

    March 13, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    AI enthusiasts love to say that the technology is as revolutionary and important as nuclear weapons. Even the Trump administration has adopted the metaphor. The President and the Department of Energy have repeatedly referred to the…

  • A Killer True Crime Fandom & Islamic State’s Digital Caliphate

    March 4, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    Things have gotten very surreal in the dark corners of the internet. AI-generated prophets are preaching jihad in Facebook groups, Minecraft servers host digital caliphates, and school shooting fandoms gather to study their heroes and plot…

  • When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’

    February 20, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    America spent most of the 19th century at war with itself. It conquered its western expanse then collapsed into civil war. Once the North beat the South, partisan politics consumed the country for a generation. A string of assassinations…

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Conversations about conflict on an angry planet. Created, produced, and hosted by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields 781951 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.