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DJT and the VIP (Very Important Prince)
President Trump gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, A.K.A. MbS, a royal welcome to Washington. But beyond the flashy diplomacy, quite a lot of business was transacted. Ho...
Back to Iraq
Filmmaker Michael Pack joins host Cliff May to tell the extraordinary story of The Last 600 Meters, his gripping documentary on the battles of Fallujah and Najaf. Though the film w...
No Country for Old Mullahs
Guest host and Senior Director of FDD’s Iran Program Behnam Ben Taleblu sits down with historian Ali Ansari to explore why the Islamic Republic is rewriting Iran’s past to justify ...
Trump’s Orient Express
President Trump just returned from a whirlwind week in Asia closing trade and investment deals and strengthening security alliances. Host Cliff May sits down with FDD’s Craig Singl...
Mariam Wahba on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Media Empire
For two years, Israel has been fighting a war on multiple fronts. Although Israel has delivered blows to Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas on the ground, it’s losing another fight: the i...
Three Voices From the Front Lines in Ukraine
Host Cliff May is joined by retired Ukrainian Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, the former inspector general of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and former commander of the Naval Forces ...
On the Battlegrounds in Gaza and Ukraine with H.R. McMaster
LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster and Brad Bowman join host Cliff May to explain why diplomacy only works when backed by force. From Gaza to Ukraine, they trace how strength — not illusions...
A Second American Century Requires Energy Dominance
From China’s stranglehold on critical minerals to the coming AI power crunch, an energy arms race is underway. Rich Goldberg, on loan from FDD to the White House, helped establish...
The Courtship of Ahmad al-Sharaa
Born into a well-educated and well-off Syrian family, Ahmad al-Sharaa – also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani – joined Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organization, al-Qaed...
Avoiding Strategic Insolvency at the Pentagon
America’s military faces extraordinary threats — and when resources lag, missions can fail. Guest host Bradley Bowman is joined by Krista Auchenbach of CSIS to discuss her forthco...
The War Against the West Has a Long Way to Go
On the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cliff May sits down with Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, former British ambassador to Yemen and UN terrorism monitor, now a sen...
How the U.N. Became Hamas’s Partner
For fifty years, the United Nations has waged a war on Israel—not with rockets or tanks, but with words: resolutions branding Zionism as racism, false charges of apartheid, fabrica...
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