About this episode

Michael Tint discusses the recent Iran War and its unique characteristics compared to past conflicts.

Why now? Why did the United States go to war with Iran this year, as opposed to last year, or ten years ago? Michael Tint is a data scientist and aerospace expert, and is here to talk about the Iran War–and why it's a different sort of conflict.

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Heaton

Guest: Michael Tint

Topics covered

• Iran War
• US foreign policy
• data science
• aerospace
• conflict analysis

Keywords

• Iran
• war
• Michael Tint
• data science
• aerospace
• US foreign policy
• conflict

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Organizations: The Political Orphanage

Places: Iran

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