Security Dilemma

On this episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts A.J. Manuzzi and John Gay are joined again by Jennifer Kavanagh. Jennifer is a Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities. Her research focuses on U.S. military strategy, force structure and defense budgeting, the defense industrial base, and military interventions and alliances in Asia and the Middle East. She is also the former director of RAND’s Army Strategy program and an alum of the Society’s Strategic Leaders Fellowship. In this episode, we discussed the impact of the Iran War on U.S. defense readiness. 
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Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Discusses the Marcellus Papers
Chasing Bandits: A History of American Wars with Non-State Actors with Michael Neagle
The Politics of the Iran War on the Right with Curt Mills
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On this week's special, quick-hit edition of Security Dilemma, co-hosts A.J. Manuzzi and John Gay spoke with John Byrnes, Strategic Director of Concerned Veterans for America about the risk of American ground forces entering the war in Iran. Mr. Byrnes joined the Marine Corps in 1991 out of high school and served four years, deployed to Somalia in 1993. He joined the New York National Guard, serving at Ground Zero after the September 11th terrorist attacks and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan before retiring from the National Guard in 2018. 
Listener Questions:
We are opening up SD to listener-submitted questions! Submit questions you'd like to ask future guests ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Please specify the episode pertaining to the question in your response.

Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Discusses the Marcellus Papers
The Iran War's Impact on US Military Readiness with Jennifer Kavanagh
Chasing Bandits: A History of American Wars with Non-State Actors with Michael Neagle
The Politics of the Iran War on the Right with Curt Mills

On this episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts A.J. Manuzzi and John Gay are joined by Sina Toossi, a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy, as they have a conversation about the ongoing U.S.-Iran war and the new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei. Sina has a professional background in producing research and analysis on U.S.-Iran relations, U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East, and nuclear policy issues. He was also previously a senior research analyst at the National Iranian American Council.
You can check out his recent article in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-massacre-bombing-protests/
Listener Questions:
We are opening up SD to listener-submitted questions! Submit questions you'd like to ask future guests ⁠here⁠. Please specify the episode pertaining to the question in your response.

Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Discusses the Marcellus Papers

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts A.J. Manuzzi and John Gay were joined by Dr. Michael Desch, the Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and founding Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the O'Brien Notre Dame International Security Center to discuss Dr. Desch's new Foreign Affairs article "Ukraine is Losing the War."

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We are opening up SD to listener-submitted questions! Submit questions you'd like to ask future guests here. Please specify the episode pertaining to the question in your response.

Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Discusses the Marcellus Papers
Why Realism Still Matters with Patrick Porter
Iran with Sina Toossi

In a special, quick hit edition of Security Dilemma, John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi spoke with Dr. Michael Desch, Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and the Director of the O'Brien Notre Dame International Security Center, about the early course of the American war with Iran.

Listeners also won't want to miss our regularly scheduled episode coming out on Tuesday with Dr. Desch, in which we discuss his article "Ukraine is Losing the War" in Foreign Affairs. Stay tuned!
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Upcoming recordings include:
The Iran War with Sina Toossi
What Realism’s Critics Get Wrong with Patrick Porter