Dmitri Alperovitch and his co-author Garrett Graff discuss their upcoming book “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century” and include an exclusive audiobook excerpt from the book that lays out in g

New Secrets From the Cold War and Lessons for Cold War II With China

26 days ago 52m 13s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Sergey Radchenko, one of the Cold War's preeminent historians, about the untold secrets of that period based on Sergey's unique access to recently declassified Soviet and Chinese archives. They discussed China's ro

How the US Planned to Respond to Russia Using a Nuke in Ukraine

Apr 8th, 2024 44m 16s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Bill Hennigan, a New York Times opinion writer currently publishing a series of articles called "At the Brink," focused on nuclear threats and the challenges our world faces in combating proliferation. They discus

The Trinity Revolution in Warfare: Precision, Sensors and Comms

Feb 29th, 2024 51m 52s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Shashank Joshi, Defense Editor for The Economist, about the changing nature of warfare and the impact of proliferation and affordability of precision munitions, sensor ubiquity and digital communications like Starl

Why North Korea is Probably Not Planning a War

Feb 22nd, 2024 55m 33s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, an expert in arms control and nuclear and missile nonproliferation, currently a professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Stud

Why China Can’t Blockade Taiwan

Feb 7th, 2024 53m 50s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Ivan Kanapathy, a former US military attache to Taiwan, about the looming threat of Chinese invasion and why a Chinese blockade or quarantine of Taiwan is unlikely to succeed. They discuss the implications of the r

Battle of Wills: Ukraine’s Path to Victory

Jan 22nd, 2024 40m 36s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Yaroslav Trofimov, a Ukrainian-born Wall Street Journal’s chief foreign-affairs correspondent, about his new book "Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence."They discussed wh

The Drone Wars: How Consumer Tech Is Shaping the Ukraine War

Dec 15th, 2023 1h 7m

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Rob Lee (Foreign Policy Research Institute) and Andrey Liscovich (UkraineDefenseFund.org) how the proliferation of FPV drones and countermeasures to them

All Things AI: An Interview With White House AI Guru Ben Buchanan

Dec 8th, 2023 46m 22s

Dmitri Alperovitch comes to the White House to interview Dr. Ben Buchanan, the White House Special Advisor on AI, about:- The risks and benefits of AI- What the US government is trying to achieve with the President's Executive Order on AI- W

Why Chinese Economy Is Heading For Stagnation, Not Collapse

Nov 6th, 2023 51m 34s

Dmitri Alperovitch and guest co-host Patrick Gray interview Alicia García-Herrero, a Spanish-born economist based in the indo-Pacific and who specializes on China. They discussed why China has exhausted its growth potential and is now facing st

Why Quantum Computing May be Overhyped but AI isn't: Interview with the NSA

Oct 18th, 2023 56m 2s

Dmitri Alperovitch interviews Gilbert Herrera, Director of Research at the National Security Agency (NSA) and a member of the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. They discussed the current state of quantum computing, why its c

How Ukraine Can Benefit From ATACMS Missiles

Sep 29th, 2023 36m 54s

ATACMS episode: - What variants of the missile exist- What unique advantages they offer over already provided Storm Shadows / SCALP-EGs from UK and France- How many missiles may exist in the US inventory and why some can be provided to Ukrai

Starlink in Ukraine: Why the Story Is Not So Simple

Sep 22nd, 2023 39m 4s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Patrick Gray, host of Risky Business podcast, about why the Starlink-Elon saga is much more complicated than it might seem at first glance. Blaming Elon for his Crimea action is probably unfair, but he does deserve

Why 702 is America’s most valuable intelligence program: Interview with the FBI

Sep 7th, 2023 52m 9s

Dmitri Alperovitch sits down with Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of FBI's Cyber Division, to discuss why FISA Section 702 is by far the most valuable intelligence program in the US government's arsenal and is responsible for the majority of

What the Death of Prigozhin Means for Wagner, Russia and Ukraine

Aug 24th, 2023 1h 4m

Dmitri Alperovitch talks to Russian military analyst Rob Lee and Wagner Group expert Jack Margolin about the implications of reports of Prigozhin's fiery death in a plane crash in Russia. Where does Wagner go from here? What happens to Russian

How Russian Intelligence operatives have attacked Ukraine in cyberspace: Interview with Ukrainian Security Service

Aug 21st, 2023 52m 17s

In this joint Geopolitics Decanted and Risky Business feature interview, Dmitri Alperovitch and Patrick Gray talk to Illia Vitiuk, the Head of the Department of Cyber and Information Security of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) about the

Why Reports of the US Dollar’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Aug 7th, 2023 38m 45s

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with geoeconomist Douglas Rediker (Senior Fellow at Brookings and formerly with the IMF Executive Board) about the enduring dominance of the U.S. dollar and why it won't change any time soon. Why the dollar continues t

Why Europe’s Dependence on the US Military Will Not Change

Aug 1st, 2023 33m 25s

How Drones Are Changing the Nature of Warfare in Ukraine

Jul 24th, 2023 56m 28s

Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner

Jul 14th, 2023 1h 5m

Mutiny in Russia: Who Won, Who Lost and What Caused It

Jun 26th, 2023 48m 29s

Ukraine’s Offensive Has Begun: Analysis With Michael Kofman and Rob Lee

Jun 8th, 2023 48m 53s

How AI Will Transform Future Militaries (And Societies)

May 2nd, 2023 58m

Dmitri Alperovitch discusses the evolution of AI with Teddy Collins (former Assistant Director for Technology Strategy at the White House, Research Scientist at Google’s DeepMind and co-author of "Teams of Teams" with General Stan McChrystal):