The #BruteCast

Our host this week is Dr. Amin Tarzi, the director for Middle East Studies at Marine Corps University. His guest is Colonel Michael Aldridge, USMCR who was a Military Observer with the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Jerusalem, Israel on Oct 7, 2023. He talks about the US Support and Marine Corps support to United Nations Peacekeeping.

This is the first episode in a series that will look at a wide range of topics pertaining to Russia. Our host is Dr. Victoria Clement and she talks with Dr. Marat Iliyasov, a Chechen scholar. Their main topic of discussion is Chechnya's troubles with Putin's Russia.

In this episode, Dr. Tarzi is back and discusses the affects on Iran of the death of Ebrahim Raisi, former president of Iran and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, former foreign minister of Iran after a helicopter crash on 19 May 2024.

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Krulak Center Non Resident Fellow Preston McLaughlin is back in this episode to talk about Irregular Warfare and EABO.

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Dr. Clement is back on the BruteCast in this episode to discuss the recent Russian Elections held in March 2024.

Exactly a week after the Kingdom of Sweden officially joined NATO, the Krulak Center was happy to host two students from the Swedish Defence University. We took the opportunity to sit down with them and learn a little bit more about the Swedish Military.

You can find links to the videos shown below:

Chief of Defence, General Micael Bydén, on Sweden's accession to NATO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNpp2ytbp54

US and Swedish marines train together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1VDNlpEO4

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We're joined by Dr. Christopher Harmon this week as he discusses some of the ways that terrorist organizations obtain funding. He then discusses some ways that states can combat these methods.

In this episode of Navigating Complexity we're joined by Dr. Christopher Anzalone, the other half of the Middle East Studies here at Marine Corps University. With the recent activity in the middle east we've expanded our look beyond Israel and Gaza. Dr. Anzalone discusses the Houthis.