What lessons can we uncover from previous United States expansion experiments that can shed some light on why and how the US might acquire the sovereign territory of the Panama Canal from Panama and Greenland from Denmark?

I hope you're ready to join me for today’s episode to discuss how the lessons of strategic timing, leveraging long-term potential, clear objectives, and diplomatic finesse apply to us today.

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What lessons can we uncover from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 that the Syrian Rebels used to take down the Assad regime in Syria?

I hope you're ready to join me for a special episode to discuss how the lessons of:

1.The Shifting Role of Outside Powers, 2.Uniting Old Enemies Against a Common Foe, 3. Financial Incentives and Undermining Assad’s Forces, 4. Breaking Ties with Extremism and 5. Breaking the Enemy’s Will apply to us today.

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What lessons can we uncover from a preemptive war that displaced one enemy, only to replace it with a more complex and dangerous enemy?

I hope you're ready to join me and my friend Dr. Grant Martin in discussing the 1982 South Lebanon War and how the lessons of groupthink, false control of war, and narrative apply to us today.

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