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March 26 Trump's Hormuz plan / troops to Mideast / Iran peace ‘talks’?
The Pentagon is sending thousands of U.S. troops to the Middle East. Is this an escalation or a warning?

Host Mary Louise Kelly, NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman and International Correspondent Aya Batrawy break down the latest about the war in Iran, including the prospects for an off-ramp.

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March 25 Top Swedish General: NATO 'heeding the call' on its new reality
Europe has come to grips with a new reality, ushered in by the Trump administration: Europe needs to commit more resources to its own security. That's according to Sweden's Chief of Defense, General Michael Claesson. In this sit-down with Mary Louise Kelly, Claesson unpacks the NATO alliance from a European military perspective -- and also weighs in on the wars in Ukraine and Iran.

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March 23 Inside a secret Pentagon effort to bring AI to the battlefield
Project Maven, a secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver the U.S. into an age of AI warfare, is the subject of a new book by Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson. Manson speaks with Mary Louise Kelly.

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March 19 Iran latest: View from the border / Trump strong-arms allies
President Trump has demanded, begged and threatened U.S.
allies to join the war in Iran.

But those allies aren’t exactly leaping in to help. Can
Trump finish the war he started – without them?

Host Mary Louise Kelly is joined by Arezou Rezvani, NPR’s
correspondent currently in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Rezvani opened up her
reporter’s notebook to share what it’s like covering Iran from outside the country.
NPR’s national security correspondent Greg Myre joined them to talk about the importance
of Kharg Island, Iran's oil export hub on the Persian Gulf, and what path President
Trump might take to end the conflict.

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March 12 U.S. vs. Israel on endgame / Battlefield tech / Wartime censorship
President Trump says there’s practically nothing left to target in Iran. Is the White House looking for an off ramp?

Host Mary Louise Kelly is joined this week by Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman, and Tel Aviv-based International Correspondent Daniel Estrin. They discuss how drone and satellite technology is coming into play in the war in Iran, the limited communication from U.S. and Israeli militaries about the war's progress and the divergent goals of the two countries.

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28 min
March 09 Is Iran another Iraq?
Poor planning, overly ambitious goals, not thinking through the aftermath. These are the parallels that Richard Haass sees between the 2003 U.S. invastion of Iraq and its current air campaign against Iran.

Haass was in charge of planning for the invasion as a top official in the State Department. He was a voice of dissent within the administration. Now he's president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the Home & Away newsletter. He talks to Host Mary Louise Kelly about the Trump administration's foreign policy and national security apparatus and where he sees it falling short on Iran.

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March 05 Iran’s fight for survival / The widening war / Trump’s nebulous goals
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is spilling out across the region. What are the goals? And how does it end?

Host Mary Louise Kelly talks with International Correspondent Aya Batrawy, based in Dubai, and Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman, about the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Six days of war have turned the middle east upside down, and it's still not clear how the U.S. will determine when its objectives have been accomplished.

Recommended Iran reading:

Blackwave by Kim Ghattas
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
Prisoner by Jason Rezaian
Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino

Listener spy novel recommendation:

Pariah by Dan Fesperman

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28 min
February 28 Iran's supreme leader is killed. What happens now?
President Trump says Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead.

This comes after Israel and the United States launched missile attacks across Iran targeting the country's top leadership. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes in several countries in the Gulf region.

Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre and NPR international correspondent Daniel Estrin about what this means for the Iranian regime and what might come next.

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February 28 U.S. and Israel strike Iran. Here's what we know
Overnight, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran.

The strikes targeted Iran’s top leaders, Supreme Leader Khamanei and President Masoud Pezeshkian — trying to kill them, according to a person briefed on Israel’s operation who spoke to NPR. Iran has responded by lobbing missiles at Israel and other countries in the region that host U.S. troops.
Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Greg Myre, NPR national security correspondent, and Daniel Estrin, NPR international correspondent based in Tel Aviv, about what they know and what could come next.

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February 26 Drone warfare / Iran on the brink? / Ukraine four years on
The seas of the Middle East are bristling with American warships and airpower trained on Iran. What does President Trump have in mind for them?

Host Mary Louise Kelly talks with National Security Correspondent Greg Myre and Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman about Trump's aims in nuclear negotiations with Iran and the risks of military action.
And four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a look at the many obstacles to peace and how Ukraine has pioneered a scrappy, improvised way of fighting, built around inexpensive drones.Email the show at [email protected].

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National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields…