Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. We probe beyond the hive mind of Washington conventional wisdom on national security and foreign affairs.
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Here We Stand is the official voice of The Republic of Kanata and the Republican Party of Kanata. The weekly program is a platform to unite and mobilize the revolutionary remnant who are forming the basis of a new society based on equality, Common Law and liberty. The Vision and Program of the Republic and the Party can be found here: Establishing Liberty: The Case for the Republic of Kanata - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1721282033 The Republic and the Party can be contacted at republicofkanat ...
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What Would Kamala's Foreign Policy Look Like?
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Eric welcomes back Eliot from his trip to the High North in Svalbard, Norway where he was attending a workshop on Nordic-Baltic views on European security. Eliot discusses the views of the Nordic countries vis a vis Russia, the role of climate change in the Arctic, and great power competition in that region. They also discuss Eliot's recent Atlanti…
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Eric welcomes back Michael Mandelbaum, author and Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Michael is the author of the new book The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History they Made (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024)…
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Eric and Eliot host historian Luke Nichter in a special convention episode that looks back at the last time the Democrats hosted a national convention in Chicago: 1968. Nichter is the James H. Cavanaugh Chair in Presidential Studies and Professor of History at Chapman University and author of The Year that Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the…
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Eric welcomes historian Timothy Ryback, the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in the Hague. He has been Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Seminar and a lecturer in History at Harvard University and is the author of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). Th…
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Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense
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Eric and Eliot discuss the multinational hostage return deal with Russia and talk about what it reveals about the Russia and the Putin regime, the diplomatic skill in pulling it off and the moral calculus between the imperative of getting wrongly accused American citizens home and the danger of political moral hazard by encouraging Putin to take mo…
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Paul Nitze: National Security's Forgotten Man
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Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office to discuss his new book America's Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security From Roosevelt to Reagan. They discuss Nitze's background as an America First supporter between the wars, his anti-Semitism and his family's connection to the Black To…
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Is Trump 2.0 a Guaranteed Foreign Policy Disaster?
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Eric and Eliot debate the latter's Atlantic article arguing that a second Trump term might not be that catastrophic on foreign policy. They discuss why people shouldn't catastrophize the possible outcomes, the traditional continuity between Administrations on foreign policy despite overheated partisan campaign rhetoric and the inextricable links be…
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Carrying on our struggle to turn the world upside downBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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The Long Shadow of the Evil Empire
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Eric and Eliot host Sergey Radchenko, the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies based in Bologna, Italy. They discuss Sergey’s personal story of growing up in Sakhalin in the Soviet Union, living in China, becoming an historian and gain…
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Battling the Global Omnicide: History and StrategyBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Standing down the Crown and Raising up the Republic: A Special Canaduh Day broadcastBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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What's at Stake in the Global 2024 Elections
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Eric is rejoined by Eliot who has been reconnoitering his old stomping grounds in Boston. They discuss a series of upcoming elections, including in the UK on July 4 where the Tory Party (the oldest political party in the world) looks to be obliterated by a Labour landslide, France where President Macron's "party" looks likely to be squeezed out by …
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You can't kill a monster with words: Mobilizing the revolutionary remnant, with Kevin and Owen of the Republic Alliance movementBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Was Machiavelli the Father of Modern Grand Strategy?
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Eric welcomes Professor Christopher Lynch, Chair of the Political Science Department at Missouri State University, the editor and translator of the most recent edition of Machiavelli's The Art of War and author of Machiavelli on War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023). They discuss Machiavelli as statesman, military leader and diplomat and…
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Having fun means kicking the biggest butts in town: Comical insights from the Land of No-OneBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eric welcomes Eliot back from scenic Lake Champlain where Eliot communed with the spirit of Benedict Arnold. They host Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and Ambassador (ret.) Robert Blackwill, the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss Fontaine and Blac…
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The Chinese takeover and its crimes against humanity in Canada: with Kevin Annett and Hugh Reilly of That Channel TVBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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David Sanger on the New Cold Wars
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Eric hosts New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger, author of The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, The Perfect Weapon and most recently New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion and America's Struggle to Defend the West. They discuss the underlying assumptions that led American policymakers to underestimate the rise and th…
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Recovering our memory and fighting to win: with Kevin Annett, Owen Lucas and Sun TzuBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Shield of the Republic Crosses the Century Mark
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Eric and Eliot ruminate on the past 100 episodes of Shield of the Republic looking back retrospectively on big takeaways about US national security since the show began in September 2021 in the shadow of the catastrophic US withdrawal from Afghanistan. They talk about President Biden's limitations as a communicator and the broader difficulties of c…
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How we use the common law to depose tyrants: A special interview with Kevin Annett and Dr. Katherine HortonBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eliot returns from the Lennert Meri Conference in Tallinn, Estonia and he and Eric are joined by Bret Stephens, columnist for the New York Times, founding Editor-in-Chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversation, former Editor in Chief of the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary at the Wall Street Journal and author of America in …
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How to fight back and win: A Practical Guide from the Art of War - with Kevin and OwenBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eric hosts Dale Copeland, Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics at UVA and faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. Dale is the author of A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024). They discuss Dale's dynamic realist …
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Should we survive ourselves? The revolutionary judgement on all of usBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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With Eliot traveling, Eric welcomes back Robert W. Kagan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and editor at large at the Washington Post, to the show to discuss Kagan's new book, Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart - Again (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024). They discuss the origins of America's liberal tradition in the rad…
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How to build a Common Law Republic: A recent workshop with Kevin Annett and Republic citizens in OntarioBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eliot and Eric welcome Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, and author of America Last: The Right's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators. They discuss the origin story of "America First" during the First World War when critic and satirist H.L. Mencken and German-Ameri…
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Murder and human trafficking in western Canada today, plus an interview with Colia Clark on how to go from protest to revolution.Bởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Facing One of the Largest War Machines in Human History
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Eric and Eliot welcome Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian journalist, formerly with the Kyiv Post and Kyiv Independent (of which he was a founder), and the author of I Will Show You it Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024). They discuss how he came to write the book, the buildup to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Russi…
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Has North America a future? A recent powerhouse of an interview with Kevin AnnettBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eliot returns from his travels and provides a trip report on his visit to Ukraine. He and Eric discuss the state of the fight, the challenges that the Ukrainians face with a hiatus in U.S. assistance, the progress that Russia has made in battlefield adaptation, Ukrainian defense innovation, the U.S. efforts to limit Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil…
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Summoning the dead and the still-living: Lessons for our fallen friendsBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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The New Fractured World (with Hal Brands)
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Eric welcomes friend of Shield of the Republic Hal Brands back to the show. Hal is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the editor of a new book, War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy and the Re…
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Building the Republic: A Preparation for our upcoming Constitutional ConventionBởi republicnationalcouncil@protonmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eric welcomes Will Selber, Military Affairs Fellow with the Bulwark and a 20 year veteran of U.S. military intelligence with multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition to his writing at the Bulwark, you can read Will's substack - Grumpy Combat Veteran - and listen to the podcast he co-hosts, Shoulder to Shoulder. They discuss the r…
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Evil has an address: Crimes of the United Church of Canada, yesterday and todayBởi republicnationalcouncil@protonmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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The National Security Beat with Jim Sciutto
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Eliot and Eric welcome CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto to the show. The recipient of multiple awards for his journalism, including the Emmy, Edward R. Murrow, and George Polk awards he is also the author of The Shadow War, The Madman Theory, and recently The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War (New Yo…
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The Art of War: A Practical Guide for Fighters - with Kevin and OwenBởi republicnationalcouncil@protonmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Nuclear Iran, NATO's Future, and America First Isolationism
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Eliot grills Eric on three recent articles identifying some big problems in U.S. foreign policy. What will happen once Iran is nuclear armed? Will the Ayatollahs undergo "nuclear learning" as some political scientists suggest or will they become more emboldened (not to seek a suicidal nuclear armageddon but to unleash their proxies -- Hezbollah, Ir…
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Kicking 'royal' butts and uncovering the latest crimes: A conversation with Kevin and GeorginaBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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The Art of Propaganda with Peter Pomerantsev
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Eric and Eliot welcome Peter Pomerantsev, British journalist, senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, television producer and author of Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible, This is Not Propaganda, and his most recent book How to Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (New York: Public Affa…
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King Charles ordered Cree murders to safeguard his investments; plus, the inside story of Kevin's targetingBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Eric welcomes Finnish Professor Kimmo Rentala, Emeritus Professor of Political History at the University of Helsinki to the show to discuss his recently released book, How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War (Yale University Press, 2024). The discuss Stalin's plans for Finland, Finnish resistance to the Soviet Union, Sweden's role …
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What caused the present Tyranny: Two new books and a way forward, with Kevin and OwenBởi congregationalcovenant@gmail.com (Rev. Kevin D. Annett)
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Liz Cheney on American Authoritarianism
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Eric and Eliot inaugurate the first video episode of Shield of the Republic by welcoming former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) to discuss her New York Times best-selling book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (New York: Little, Brown, 2023). They discuss her assessment of the impact on public discourse and public perceptions of the hearings …
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What Happens if the House Fails in its Obligation
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Eric and Eliot bemoan the death/murder of Alexei Navalny, Tucker Carlson's performative buffoonery in Moscow, and the irresponsibility of the Republican House of Representatives. They also welcome Phillips O'Brien, professor of strategic studies at St. Andrews University and author of How the War Was Won, The Second Most Powerful Man in the World, …
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Eric and Eliot Look at the Bright Side
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Counter to type Eric welcomes Eliot back from his travels with a discussion of the positive things going on in the world. They discuss the strong response of the European allies to the Russian aggression against Ukraine, including the German Zeitenwende and the increase in German defense spending, they discuss the Franco-American relationship and t…
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This War is Going to End Exactly How the West Decides it Will
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Eric welcomes former Supreme Allied Commander (SACEUR) of NATO General Philip Breedlove. General Breedlove is one of the nation's preeminent military strategists having served as commander of US Air Forces in Europe as well as Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Sam Nunn School at Georg…
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Eric and Eliot (joining from the Iberian Peninsula) discuss the Iranian strike on US soldiers located at Tower 22 in Jordan and the Administration's options for retaliation. They consider the argument's in Eliot's Atlantic piece suggesting that the US needs an entirely new strategy for Iran, the nature of the regime, and the difficulty American gov…
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