Host Jon Olson talks with Mark Shaw, Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, about how his organization is working end international criminal enterprises.

This episode originally aired on Sept. 8th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with Chip Laingen, Executive Director of the Defense Alliance, a collaboration of Upper Midwest businesses in the defense and national high technology industries.

This episode originally aired on September 1st 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with University of Minnesota Professor Mark Bell. They continue their discussion on advanced nuclear delivery capabilities and their impact on nuclear deterrence.

This originally aired on August 15th 2021. 

This week, host Jon Olson discusses the events of the past week in Afghanistan with with retired State Department Foreign Service Officers Tom Hanson and Bill Davnie.

This episode originally aired on August 18th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with Professor Federico Varese from Oxford University in the United Kingdom about the national security ramifications of transnational organized crime syndicates.

This episode originally aired on August 11th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with noted crime thriller author and former CIA intelligence officer Carmen Amato about intelligence operations, the Western hemisphere, and her crime thriller novels.

This episode originally aired on August 4th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with retired CIA case officer David Sauer about Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations.

This episode originally aired on July 28th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with Dr. Michael Osterholm about the national security implications of infectious diseases.

This episode originally aired on July 21st 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with retired FBI Special Agent E.K. Wilson, who led the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force investigating young Americans who joined the al-Shabab terrorist group and their supporters.

This episode originally aired on July 14th 2021. 

Host Jon Olson talks with Todd Lefko, a business leader who has been doing business in Russia for 32 years, about Russian politics and the Russian economy.

This episode originally aired on July 7th 2021.