WarTalk: Iran War 'Love Tap' Edition feat. Jack Shanahan
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities and implications of the ongoing Iran War and the challenges faced by Project Freedom.
The White House says the war is over. The White House also says it's continuing in a new form. Two weeks after the launch of Project Freedom, only two Maersk ships took the offer. Roughly 900 ships remain trapped in the Persian Gulf, and the Saudis just declined to grant basing or overflight rights. Retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan — founding director of the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and former head of Project Maven — joins Bryan Clark, Eric Robinson, Tony Stark, and Justin McIntosh to dig into the purgatory. We discuss… Why Project Freedom collapsed A leaked CIA assessment putting 70% of Iran's ballistic missile capability still intact The Anthropic supply chain risk designation, Mythos, and the "call me" moment Four F-15Es down, 30 MQ-9s shot down, and why Jack thinks the Air Force was one inch from a televised POW disaster song:https://suno.com/s/kBuJ4ruS5UkfTdY3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Jordan Schneider
Guest: Jack Shanahan
Topics covered
- Iran War
- Project Freedom
- military strategy
- AI in defense
- geopolitics
- U.S. foreign policy
Keywords
- Iran
- Project Freedom
- military
- AI
- CIA
- Pentagon
- geopolitics
- U.S. foreign policy
- ballistic missiles
- drone warfare
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: White House, Pentagon, CIA, Project Freedom, Project Maven
Places: Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
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