Home USAWC CSL SRAD Media Podcasts
 
USAWC Crest
Decisive Point Podcast Cover

Decisive Point

Decisive Point, the Parameters podcast companion series, furthers the education and professional development of senior military officers and members of the government and academia who are concerned with national security affairs. The podcast debuted in August 2020 and spans four seasons and more than 100 episodes, featuring Parameters authors discussing the research presented in their articles. Episodes range from 10–15 minutes long and cover various topics, including foreign policy, strategy, military history, counterinsurgency, Landpower, and more.

Conversations on Strategy Podcast Cover

Conversations on Strategy

Conversations on Strategy features quick analyses of timely strategic issues. Topics are geared toward senior military officials, government leaders, academicians, strategists, historians, and thought leaders interested in foreign policy, strategy, history, counterinsurgency, and more. The series first aired in March 2022 and includes more than 25 episodes that range in length from 15–30 minutes long. Guests include Press authors and subject matter experts from the US Army War College and other PME and academic institutions who discuss hot topics like the Russia-Ukraine War, China, Taiwan, artificial intelligence, manned-unmanned teaming, infrastructure, terrorism, urban warfare, the Middle East, and more.

CLSC Dialogues Podcast Cover

CLSC Dialogues

The China Landpower Studies Center tackles complex and pressing questions about China’s emergence as a global power and its implications for the US military. The podcast will use Strategic Landpower as the focal point of discussion—providing unique and important insights that cut across the aperture of the levers of power. The forum provides senior leaders and practitioners with a better understanding of the strategies, capabilities, and the integration of the PLA into the CCP’s campaign to turn the rules-based international order to its advantage. Further, the podcast will share insights and recommendations for developing better deterrence strategies and campaigns for the United States and our allies.

SSI Live Podcast Cover

SSI Live

USAWC professors and esteemed guests discuss topics ranging from military strategy to geopolitical issues. The US Army War College Press produces Decisive Point as a companion series to the quarterly journal Parameters. In SSI Live, professors discuss wide-ranging military topics.

RECENT EPISODES

Decisive Point Podcast

Conversations on Strategy

  • Slide for Conversations on Strategy episode: on The Impossible Mission: The Office of Security Cooperation and the U.S. Forces Drawdown in Iraq
    On The Impossible Mission: The Office of Security Cooperation and the U.S. Forces Drawdown in Iraq

    In this episode of Conversations on Strategy, retired Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr. and historian Dr. Katelyn K. Tietzen-Wisdom discuss Caslen’s 2025 book, The Impossible Mission: The Office of Security Cooperation and the US Forces Drawdown in Iraq. The conversation explores the strategic challenges of the 2011 US drawdown in Iraq. The discussion highlights the complexities of war termination, highlighting the need to learn from the gap between policy expectations and on-the-ground reality.

    Read More
  • Slide for Conversations on Strategy Podcast Ep 61: Antulio J. Echevarria II, Weaponizing Risk: Recalibrating Western Deterrence
    Weaponizing Risk: Recalibrating Western Deterrence

    In this episode, Antulio J. Echevarria II discusses how NATO might better leverage risk to strengthen the alliance’s extended deterrence. Can NATO increase the risks and costs of war for an adversary without unduly raising the alliance’s own? Can the alliance strengthen the credibility of NATO’s extended deterrence through a proxy strategy of “waging war without going to war”?

    Read More

CLSC Dialogues

SSI Live Podcast

  • SSI Live podcast: Europe’s Role in a Taiwan Crisis, Brennan Deveraux and Dr. John Deni
    SSI Live 125 – Europe’s Role in a Taiwan Crisis

    In this episode of SSI Live, Major Brennan Deveraux interviews Dr. John Deni on his ongoing research concerning Europe’s potential involvement in a war in the Pacific. The conversation explores the challenges of coalition management and the unique contributions the United States could request from its European allies.

    Read More
  • Slide for SSI Live Podcast Episode124: The Selective Service System
    SSI Live 124 – The Selective Service System

    In this episode of SSI Live, Major Brennan Deveraux interviews Dr. Michael Lynch on his involvement with the Selective Service System. The conversation explores the history of the military draft and the contemporary challenges of implementing a modern-day draft to support a large-scale war.

    Read More