Podcast featuring interviews with national security leaders | Hosted by BGS Managing Directors Michael Allen, Jeremy Bash, and Andrew Shapiro.
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🎙️ Intelligence Matters is now NatSec Matters!
New name, same mission—insightful, informed conversations on today's most pressing national security issues. Hear more from host @michaelallenJMA in our latest episode of @NatSecMatters ⬇️
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🇪🇺 Unrest, indecision & agita in Europe. @michaelallenJMA and CEPA’s @nicolange_ break down Witkoff’s Moscow backchannel, how Ukrainian refinery strikes are driving talk of an “energy ceasefire,” and Russia’s shadow war on NATO’s flank. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🇮🇱 Would Netanyahu’s departure really change Israel’s defense posture? Former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief @yaakovkatz says don’t bet on it. He joins @michaelallenJMA to preview Israel’s elections and the post-October 7 security consensus. Listen 👇podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨NEW EPISODE: Are the Houthis Tehran’s proxies or something harder to deter? 🇾🇪 After a lightning offensive seized the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, Dr. April Longley Alley of The Washington Institute joins @michaelallenJMA to break down Yemen’s return to full-scale war. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨New Episode: Trump & Xi - Managed stability on the surface, competitive hardening underneath. Ann E. Kowalewski (Senior Fellow, @IIPS_org) unpacks the real outcomes of the Trump-Xi summit on #NatSecMatters with @michaelallenJMA: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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A detailed discussion with Norm Roule and Michael Allen on @NatSecMatters - talking about both economic strangulation of Iran and the disappointment in Europe's response.
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🚨NEW EPISODE: RADM (Ret.) @MarkCMontgomery (@FDD) & @Norman_Roule (@CSIS) join @michaelallenJMA on the Hormuz standoff, a Navy readiness crisis, and the "axis of aggressors" tying Moscow, Beijing & Tehran. Plus: Taiwan and Ukraine. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨 New episode: @michaelallenJMA talks with @hdagres (@WashInstitute, editor of The Iranist) on the Dec/Jan uprisings, the regime's brutal crackdown, and how Iran's clerical rulers have radicalized a new generation of IRGC hardliners.
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🎙🚨 On the latest #NatSecMatters, @michaelallenJMA talks with @peterrough (@HudsonInstitute) on stalled Russia-Ukraine diplomacy, Witkoff & Kushner's latest moves, Ukraine's refinery strikes, Kyiv's military shakeup & Russian sabotage in Europe ahead of winter. Listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Winning the AI Race
Catch the full episode here: piped.video/hS-panxHDcw
Hormuz, Hyperscalers & the Market: RenMac Off-Script
#AI #Innovation
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🚨NEW EPISODE - 'Economic D-Day' & Refining Realities: @michaelallenJMA talks with @ClaySeigle on the oil price surge, the Hormuz standoff, refining bottlenecks, Russian fuel throughput, and Venezuela's crude future. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨NEW EPISODE - Netanyahu's Next Test: @michaelallenJMA talks with @yaakovkatz, former Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post, on Israel's political rift with Washington, the coming elections, and the Gaza stalemate. 🎧 Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨NEW EPISODE-Netanyahu's Next Test: @MichaelAllenJMA talks with @yaakovkatz, former Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post, on Israel's political rift with Washington, the coming elections, and the Gaza stalemate. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨New Episode-A world tour of geopolitical flashpoints: @michaelallenJMA sits down with @CNASdc CEO @RHFontaine to map the ripple effects from Hormuz to the Indo-Pacific, from Ukraine's endgame to the deepening "Axis of Upheaval." 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🚨 Tehran is escalating its demands as its internal power structure hardens, and Washington faces a deteriorating standoff in the Persian Gulf.
On the latest #NatSecMatters, @michaelallenJMA is joined by @RichardMNephew (@ColumbiaSIPA, former NSC Director for Iran) to break it all down.
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🚨 NEW EPISODE: @michaelallenJMA talks with Glenn Corn, former CIA Chief of Station with 34+ years across U.S. intel, defense & diplomacy. Fresh off the ground in Ukraine, Glenn offers an on-the-ground operational update on how Kyiv's military is reshaping the battlefield.🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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🇺🇦 Fresh off his 7th trip to Ukraine, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery (@MarkCMontgomery) joins @michaelallenJMA with a frontline update, his read on Kyiv's leadership shakeup, and a naval case for U.S. escort operations through the Strait of Hormuz.
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🚨Who blew up Nord Stream — and how?
@WSJ's Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) joins @michaelallenJMA with the inside story: a six-person team, a rented yacht, and a $250K budget that took out Europe's primary Russian energy pipeline.
His new book draws on direct conversations with the saboteurs themselves.
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🎙️ How did the NATO Ankara Summit really land? @michaelallenJMA is joined by @apolyakova (@cepa) and @peterrough (@HudsonInstitute) to unpack transatlantic friction points and what Sen. Graham's passing means for Capitol Hill's approach to Ukraine.
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🤖 What happens when AI starts coding its own successors?
BGS's @KlonKitchen sits down with Dr. @dkaushik96 to break down frontier AI's national security implications — reasoning models, recursive self-improvement, and why China's open-source push changes the calculus.
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