Best Mark Hurst Podcasts (2025)

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Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024) 42:18

1d ago42:18

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Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defence holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory ‘peace dividend’. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces and drawing down defence industries, E…

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AA: Prisons, Trade 40:28

5d ago40:28

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Have your say on the issues discussed on Any QuestionsBy BBC Radio 4

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AQ: Annabel Denham, Rachael Maskell MP, Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP, Matthew Taylor 52:07

6d ago52:07

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Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.By BBC Radio 4

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William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024) 1:44:44

8d ago1:44:44

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Rejecting much of the conventional wisdom to what makes up a modern Army, William F. Owen's Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today (Howgate Publishing Limited, 2025) massacres fields sacred cows to challenge many of the mainstream ideas about the future of land warfare and how it should be conducted. Based on his experience working …

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Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics 1:16:20

11d ago1:16:20

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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and co-host of the great podcast, These Times, about her approach to geopolitical analysis and the centrality of energy geopolitics in that approach. The pair start by talking about Thompson’s book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st C…

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Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025) 54:54

12d ago54:54

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In a multipolar world where America wields less relative power, the United States can no longer get away with poor statecraft. To understand how the US can approach future national security challenges, I spoke with Dennis Ross, a senior US diplomat and the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East…

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AA: Gaza/Israel, Assisted Dying 40:04

12d ago40:04

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If you have been affected by any of the details discussed in today’s discussion there is information of help and support in the UK available at bbc.co.uk/actionlineBy BBC Radio 4

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AQ: Dame Jackie Baillie MSP, Jim Fairlie MSP, Douglas Ross MSP, Lorna Slater MSP 51:54

13d ago51:54

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Ardfern on the Craignish peninsulaBy BBC Radio 4

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Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023) 48:29

17d ago48:29

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The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal (Oxford UP, 2023) tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal. It takes an expansive look at automated and autonomous technologies, from mines and torpedoes to guided bombs and missiles, satellites…

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Alex Storozynski, "Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists" (Polestar-Media, 2025) 51:12

19d ago51:12

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Spies In My Blood: A Polish Family’s Secret Fight Against Nazis & Communists (Polestar-Media, 2025) is the true story of two brothers raised in New York by WWII exiles and their journey to Poland. Each takes a different path to infiltrate the Communist secret police on a mission to uncover the truth about their family of soldiers, spies, and assass…

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AA: Winter Fuel Allowance, Defence Spending 39:54

19d ago39:54

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Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?By BBC Radio 4

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AQ: Saqib Bhatti MP, Sir Chris Bryant MP, Sir Howard Davies, Alison Phillips 51:34

20d ago51:34

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from the Shell Store in Hereford.By BBC Radio 4

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Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017) 52:07

22d ago52:07

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From busting drug lords to leading the Pentagon task force charged with bringing the 9/11 terrorists to justice, Mark Fallon has spent his career on the front lines of U.S. national security. My first guest is one of the most fascinating people I've interviewed. Former NCIS Special Agent in Charge Mark Fallon is a national security consultant, scho…

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Joanna Siekiera, "Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in 21st Century Conflicts and Beyond" (Marine Corps UP, 2025) 1:16:20

25d ago1:16:20

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The future battlespace promises to be complex, unpredictable, and multifaceted. To answer its challenges, military professionals must think deeply and innovatively about warfare’s evolving character and how to gain decisive advantage across a hotly contested global landscape. Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in Twent…

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Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025) 47:32

26d ago47:32

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For nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the war was fought psychologically. It was a battle for hearts, minds, and intell…

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Election Results/ Net Zero 40:21

26d ago40:21

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Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?By BBC Radio 4

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AQ: Nigel Huddleston MP, Tim Montgomerie, Helen Morgan MP, Lucy Powell MP 52:04

27d ago52:04

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Epperstone Village Hall, Nottinghamshire.By BBC Radio 4

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Shaun Walker, "The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West" (Knopf, 2025) 1:00:13

1M ago1:00:13

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Shaun Walker, The Illegals (Knopf, 2025) is the definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century ago, the new Bolshevik government began sending Soviet citizen…

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AQ: Jess Brown-Fuller MP, John Glen MP, Baroness Angela Smith, Gawain Towler 51:37

1M ago51:37

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from the Strode Theatre in Street in Somerset.By BBC Radio 4

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Brian Masaru Hayashi, "Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory" (Oxford UP, 2021) 1:11:58

1M ago1:11:58

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Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with Axis Powers. All these colorful individuals form the story of Asian Americans in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), th…

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Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:05:30

1M ago1:05:30

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Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2024) is the first comprehensive history of India's secret Cold War. It examines interventions made by the intelligence and security services of Britain and the United States in post-colonial India and their strategic, political, and socio-cultural impact o…

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AQ: Sian Berry MP, Baroness Bousted, Mark Littlewood, Lord Willetts 51:48

1M ago51:48

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Ben Wright presents political debate from Community Links in LondonBy BBC Radio 4

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AQ: Pippa Heylings MP, Paul Johnson, Stephen Kinnock MP, David Reed MP 51:59

2M ago51:59

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Hatherleigh Community Centre in Devon.By BBC Radio 4

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Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025) 1:36:29

2M ago1:36:29

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Amid the fanfare around AI and autonomous weapons, decision-makers - both military and political - are imagining an augmented future for warfare that minimises human influence and connection. But in their rush for speed and lethality, leaders have failed to understand the behavioural and technical challenges that accompany these new weapon types, a…

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Atiya Husain, "No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism" (Duke UP, 2025) 1:09:08

2M ago1:09:08

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Atiya Husain’s No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge and Terrorism (Duke University Press, 2025) uses the FBI Most Wanted lists to rethink theoretical relationships between race and Islam in the United States. Husain traces the genealogy of wanted posters and how theories of the “average man” informs the use of photographs and its accompanying descrip…

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Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025) 44:31

2M ago44:31

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The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke’s ‘father’, is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These are elitist stories that more often than not ignore …

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Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024) 40:47

2M ago40:47

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Homeland security is rarely just a matter of the homeland; it involves the circulation and multiplication of policing practices across borders. Though the term "homeland security" is closely associated with the United States, Israel is credited with first developing this all-encompassing approach to domestic surveillance and territorial control. To…

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Andrew Long, "BRIXMIS and the Secret Cold War: Intelligence Collecting Operations Behind Enemy Lines in East Germany" (Pen and Sword, 2024) 1:51:27

2M ago1:51:27

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The German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, was the frontline in the Cold War, packed with hundreds of thousands of Soviet and East German troops armed with the latest Warsaw Pact equipment, lined up along the 1,400 km Inner German Border. However, because of the repressive East German police state, little human intelligence about these forces…

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Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021) 1:06:16

2M ago1:06:16

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Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror (Routledge, 2021) reveals how counterterrorism discourses and practices became the main tool of a systematic violation of human rights in Egypt after the Arab Uprising. It examines how the civic and democratic uprising in Egypt turned into robust auth…

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AQ: Tonia Antoniazzi MP, Pat Cullen MP, Sorcha Eastwood MP, Lord Weir 46:50

2M ago46:50

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Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Downpatrick in Northern Ireland.By BBC Radio 4

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Daniela Richterova, "Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries" (Georgetown UP, 2025) 1:34:45

2M ago1:34:45

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The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War In the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries. They arrived here to seek refuge, enjoy recreation, or hold secret meetings…

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