A very insightful blast from the past. At mark 25:25; David is almost epiphanous when he speaks about the possibility of US designing its GPS netwrok with built-in redundancies and more importantly developing quick launch capabilities to replace satelites in the constellation that are corrupted or destroyed by the adversary. I cannot but help think of the world record set by ISRO's 2017 single launch of 104 satellites; including 96 nanosatellites for a US customer. Matthew Gault may have displayed refreshing humility, calling themselves naive at the beginning of the podcast; but War College was spookily accurate, atleast conceptually, in one instance. Keep up the good work Jason and Mattew; your podcasts are a much needed breath of fresh air in terms of honesty and objectivity that is sorely lacking in the entire mainstream media. Wish you a very successful New Year and many more years of success.

International criminal organizations are more concerned about message security than the average citizen. The end-to-end encryption of WhatsApp or Signal is great, but drug traffickers are looking for a little extra. Enter services like Anom, EncroChat, Sky, and Phantom Secure— discrete messaging services that charged big bucks and promised criminals a chat experience free from the prying eyes of law enforcement. But the cops always find a way. And one of those services was actually purpose built by the FBI to act as a spying tool on the world’s criminals. In Dark Wire, investigative journalist Joseph Cox tells the story of how the FBI built and maintained a phone service just for criminals. He’s on Angry Plant today to tell us all about it. <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/dark-wire-the-incredible-true-story-of-the-largest-sting-operation-in-history-joseph-cox/20664624" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buy DARK WIRE here</a>. You could have heard an early, and commercial free, version of this episode. Sign up for the <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Angry Planet newsletter</a> to get started.Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The FBI’s Chat App and the Biggest Sting Operation In History

Sign up at&nbsp;<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a>&nbsp;to get instant access to the full episode. <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/russian-murderers-who-go-to-war-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A direct link to the episode on Substack</a>. American politics was bizarre in 2016. Alt-right figures dominated many news cycles and shared pictures of cartoon frogs online. A lot of those personalities, like Baked Alaska and Richard Spencer, flamed out and vanished from the scene. But there’s always money to be made and political power to be gained by playing to people’s base fears and a new brand of online far right weirdo has risen to take their places. On this episode of Angry Planet we check in on the so-called “New Right” with investigative journalist Jason Wilson. Wilson has chronicled far-right movements for years and recently exposed some of their thought leaders in The Guardian. If you want to learn why some people care about the “longhouse” or the importance of online anonymity when spreading weird ideas online, then this is the episode for you.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/far-right-twitter-identity-revealed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/conservative-partnership-institute-republican-laws" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: the extremist Maga lobbying group driving far-right Republican policies</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/people-rights-network-oregon-elections" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for office</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/us-far-right-group-influencing-anti-gay-policy-africa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

TEASER: Checking In On the Online Nazis With Jason Wilson

Listen to this episode commercial free at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://angryplanetpod.com/</a> No one is really sure how many nuclear weapons are out there. Every number you see is a best guess. Russia and the U.S. have the most, sitting at around 5,000 each. France has just under 200, China has about 500 (and is probably building more), and North Korea has around 50. The world’s nuclear powers love to keep the details of these weapons secret, but not too secret. It’s a complex game of signaling and secrets, one that can be difficult to parse from the outside. Matt Korda of the Federation of American Scientists is here today to walk us through the world’s nuclear powers and the wannabes. Over at the FAS, Korda spends his days looking at high resolution satellite photos of Chinese deserts, pouring over footage of Russian military drills, and reading every line of Pentagon budgets. All that information is mixed together to produce the <a href="https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuclear Notebook</a>: a constantly updated inventory of world ending weapons.&nbsp; <a href="https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Nuclear Notebook</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bj7x/nuclear-threats-are-looming-and-nobody-knows-how-many-nukes-are-out-there" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuclear Threats Are Looming, And Nobody Knows How Many Nukes Are Out There</a> Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

How to Count Nuclear Weapons

Sign up at&nbsp;<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a>&nbsp;to get instant access to the full episode. <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/russian-murderers-who-go-to-war-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A direct link to the episode on Substack</a>. Back in 2020, Daniel Perry was driving for Uber to make ends meet. He ran a red light and dove his car into a crowd at a Black Lives Matter protest. Garret Foster was there to protect the crowd and he’d brought an AK-47 along to do it. Foster, an Air Force veteran, approached Perry’s car. Perry, an Army sergeant, pulled out a pistol and killed Foster from the car and drove away. After a trial and a deep dive into Perry’s online history, a jury of his peers found him guilty of murder. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.&nbsp; Why? Perry had become a symbol that transcended justice. Christopher Hooks is here to walk us through the particulars of the case. Hooks is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. He’s been writing about the Perry case and its consequences for Texas Monthly. Hooks tells us exactly what happened in 2020, when Perry committed the murder, and walks us through the colorful cast of Texas politicians who may soon take the national stage. <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/contributors/christopher-hooks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Did Greg Abbott Pardon a Racist Murderer?</a> <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/contributors/christopher-hooks/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ken Paxton Takes Manhattan</a> <a href="http://l" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What Azerbaijan Wants From Texas Politicians</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/abbott-pardon-daniel-perry-texas.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">D.A. Seeks to Overturn Texas Governor’s Pardon of Man Who Killed Protester</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

TEASER: Getting Away With Murder in Texas

Listen to this episode commercial free at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://angryplanetpod.com/</a> We used to build things in America, things like fallout shelters. There’s a luxury hotel on the border between Virginia and West Virginia that’s been a favorite retreat of the D.C. elite for generations. After the fall of the atom bombs in World War II, Washington commissioned an addition to the hotel: a secret fallout shelter that would house Congress in the event of a nuclear war. Matt Farwell of <a href="https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Hunt for Tom Clancy</a> is here to tell that story and others from the golden age of Atomic America. There was a time when Las Vegas casinos sold tickets to watch nuclear tests. It was an era when the concrete flowed like water and America built bunkers under a hotel and a military base in the heart of a mountain. We might even talk about Nazis and aliens. It’s a wild one. Join us.Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Inside the Congressional Nuclear Bunker

It's a blast from the past this week and Jason and Matthew get ready for 2018. Here's what we said back then: From Star Wars to Battlestar Galactica, few battlefields are as fought over in pop-culture as space. Which makes sense. Since the end of World War Two, people have looked to the stars as the next great frontier of both exploration and warfare. For the United States, the Space Race was about both prestige and gaining an advantage over its Cold War enemies. And since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, peopled have looked to the skies above and wondered if the next great war might take place in literal vacuum.But according to David Axe, editor-in-chief of War Is Boring, the war in space won’t look anything like what Hollywood has long pictured. Slow moving robots, lasers and logistics will dominate combat above the skies. In this week’s War College, Axe dispels the popular myths of space as a battlefield and let’s us know what’s really going on in Earth’s orbit. Axe describes how to weaponize existing satellites, the missiles America and China have developed to knock those satellites out of the sky and the low-cost plans the Pentagon has to maintain its edge in the stratosphere. You can listen to War College on&nbsp;<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/war-college/id1023774600?mt=2" target="_blank">iTunes</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jason-fields/war-college" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ioueaqtuifyfrxlbf6e6ec6difm" target="_blank">Google Play</a>&nbsp;or follow our&nbsp;<a href="http://rss.acast.com/warcollege" target="_blank">RSS directly</a>. You can reach us on our new Facebook page:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/</a>; and on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/War_College" target="_blank">@War_College</a>.

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