Listen as Scott DeAngelo shares insights and experiences from his career as a CIA Intelligence Analyst. What role does leadership analysis play in assisting policymakers when dealing with their foreign counterparts? What forecasts can be made about the future of Afghanistan, especially now that the US has withdrawn? And how did a self-described "vagabond undergraduate" end up at the CIA, and how can students today start similar careers? Learn all this and more in this episode of In the Interest of National Security. 

Listen as Dr. Frederick White draws upon his experience as a Russia Area Specialist to share his insights into Russian language and culture. What does the word "democracy" mean to Russia? What is the shared history between Russia and Ukraine? And why did the Soviet Union like Ernest Hemingway so much? Learn all this and more in this episode of In the Interest of National Security.

A brief introduction to In the Interest of National Security from our hosts Professor Ryan Vogel, Director of the Center for National Security Studies at Utah Valley University, and Professor Jonathan Rudd, Associate Director of the Center.