12 March 2025
Kelsey D. Atherton (Popular Science, Grand Blog Tarkin) and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, daveedgr.com)
On Foreign Entanglements, guest hosts Kelsey and Daveed recount their epic battle as finalists in TwitterFightClub 2014, which Daveed won by using lessons learned from battle rap. Applying comic books to national security, they wonder how Iron Man and Galactus could help the US military. Is the sequel to Top Gun really going to be about drones? They analyze what the large outdoor meeting of Al Qaeda in Yemen reveals about what drones can and can’t do. Daveed offers a counterintuitive take on Al Qaeda’s strength and America’s drone war. Plus: The flaws in a Times op-ed connecting military veterans and white supremacy.
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Recorded:Apr 18
Posted:Apr 21, 2014
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Foreign Entanglements | Apr 21, 2014 | Kelsey D. Atherton & Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
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