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Horns of a Dilemma: A Little-Known CIA Operation in Poland
Seth Jones, Paul Pope
May 08, 2019
Clements Center and ISP Fellow Paul Pope sits down with and Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic & International Studies to talk about his latest book, A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland. They discuss Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and how the CIA aided Poland’s opposition movement by helping it to run an underground media campaign, which, ultimately, helped it survive the onslaught from the regime. Pope and Jones also discuss the conditions that set up covert action for success. Here’s a hint: Don’t try to bake the whole cake.
Predoctoral Fellow Mary Walters discusses the Crisis in Kosovo with Steve Baumann
Mary Walters
May 06, 2019
Mary Walters sits down with Steve Baumann, host of The Hour of History Podcast, to reflect on the Kosovo War after twenty years and explore the roots of the conflict and related refugee crisis, as well as the involvement of NATO, the UN, and Albanian families in providing humanitarian assistance.
Horns of a Dilemma: Russian Hybrid War, Ukraine, and US Policy
Liam Collins
May 02, 2019
Col. Liam Collins, career Special Forces officer and director of the Modern War Institute at West Point, dissects how Russia used hybrid warfare in Georgia, what it learned from that experience, and how it applied those lessons in Ukraine, allowing it to take Crimea without firing a single shot.
Horns of a Dilemma: Seeing Beyond the Horizon – Intelligence Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World
Susan Gordon, Stephen Slick
Apr 25, 2019
In the final installment of the 2019 Intelligence Studies Project Symposium, Susan Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, delivers the keynote address. Following the keynote, she sat down with Stephen Slick, director of the Intelligence Studies Project, to discuss intelligence in transition.
Former Postdoctoral Fellow Galen Jackson chairs book review roundtable on "Suez Deconstructed" for Texas National Security Review
Galen Jackson
Apr 24, 2019
Jackson and a team of scholars review the recently published "Suez Deconstructed" by Philip Zelikow and the late Ernest May to determine what lessons the Suez Canal crisis holds for today's policymakers.
