The State of It

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The State of It episodes

February 02, 2025 Frontline special: Former British Diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey
In this extended Frontline conversation, James Hanson speaks to the former British diplomat and visiting professor of war studies at Kings College London, Tim Willasey-Wilsey about the war in Ukraine.

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27 min
February 01, 2025 Frontline special - Professor Mark Galeotti
In this extended Frontline conversation, Kate Gerbeau speaks to the writer and Russia analyst Mark Galeotti about the war in Ukraine.

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32 min
January 31, 2025 Trump’s US Iron Dome: can it really work?
Donald Trump’s executive order to create an American version of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system has prompted Russia to accuse the US of militarising space. But is it even possible to scale up the Iron Dome to span the whole of North America? Missile defence specialist Masao Dahlgren from the Center for Strategic and International Studies explains how Trump’s plans are different to Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ initiative, and why the president’s expectations are more realistic.

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11 min
January 30, 2025 The crystal ball of war: how AI predicts tactics months in advance
In Estonia, a tech firm's revealed its Artificial Intelligence software which claims to be able to predict warfare tactics months before they are put into practise. Oliver Moody, the Times correspondent with an Eastern-Europe brief, visits the company and analyses how it might already be helping on battlegrounds in Ukraine.

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11 min
January 29, 2025 Inside Nato’s battle against subsea sabotage
Following the seizure of yet another vessel after damage to undersea telecom cables, Nato is intensifying its investigation into what appears to be a growing campaign in the Baltic Sea. The Times' defence correspondent, George Grylls, delves into the story, meeting the sailors and divers working to uncover the truth beneath the waves.

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11 min
January 28, 2025 UK to snub Trump on NATO defence spending
Donald Trump wants NATO members to increase their defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP by 2030, but he’s facing opposition from a key European ally. The UK government doesn’t think it can hit even half that target by the end of the decade without deeply unpopular spending cuts at home. Former head of the British Army Lord Dannatt says that would set “an extraordinarily bad example” for the rest of Europe as it tries to keep Vladimir Putin at bay.

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11 min
January 27, 2025 Trump's "clean out Gaza" plan puts Middle East stability at risk
Egypt and Jordan have reacted with dismay at a Donald Trump suggestion that they should take displaced Palestinians in order that the Gaza Strip could be "cleaned out." Yet in today's episode The Times & Sunday Times' US Correspondent, Josie Ensor, reveals that the President's idea may need to be considered, given the potential risk of a devastating trade tariff punishment if the two nations do not comply.
Can the plan be implemented and instability across the wider region be avoided?

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11 min
January 26, 2025 Frontline special - Ambassador John E Herbst (Extended)
In this extended Frontline Conversation, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine, John E Herbst, discusses the latest news from the war in Ukraine, including his reaction to the start of Donald Trump's 2nd term as US President.

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30 min
January 25, 2025 Frontline special - Donald Trump inauguration special (Extended)
In this extended Frontline Conversation, the former NATO planner and military intelligence officer, Philip Ingram MBE, and Professor Scott Lucas from the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin join James Hanson to analyse Donald Trump's inaugural address mere moments after the 47th US President finished delivering it and what his re-election might mean for the Ukraine war and the wider world.

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53 min
January 24, 2025 Fears of a nuclear arms race in Asia after Trump’s North Korea comments
In his first week back in the White House, Donald Trump has said North Korea is a ‘nuclear power’ and described its leader Kim Jong-un as a ‘very smart guy’. The Times’ Asia Editor Richard Lloyd Parry explains why that has sparked fears of nuclear proliferation in South Korea, and whether the US president can get the deal with Pyongyang which eluded him in his first term.

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11 min