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Aaron MacLean✓

@AaronBMacLean

Host @schoolofwarpod, national security analyst @CBSNews, columnist @TheFP

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  1. Aaron MacLean✓@AaronBMacLean
    We produced nearly 100 episodes of @schoolofwarpod in 2025. It was quite a year: authors like Stephen Kotkin (Ep. 180), Andrew Roberts (Ep. 189), @DouglasKMurray (Ep. 193), Walter Russell Mead (Ep. 186), and @barrystrauss (Ep. 224). Public figures like @TomCottonAR (Ep. 183); industry leaders like @anduriltech's @cdbrose (Ep. 259), @UNION_Prime's Will Sommerindyke (Ep. 216), serial CEO @DrJohnHillen (Ep. 195), and @WeAreHII's Eric Chewning (Ep. 172). Episodes covered everything from breaking news (e.g. Operation Midnight Hammer) to civilizational collapse in the Bronze Age to the nature of historical thinking itself. We hit 3 million total downloads. And this fall we finally switched to video (which takes a toll on my ability to multitask while recording!) It's hard to pick favorites, but here are my top 20 episodes from 2025, recommended for your holiday down-time:
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    RT @irisengelson: Fascinating discussion: a deep dive into the history of the late 19th & early 20th centuries, the unique character of Israeli culture, political philosophy, differences btw Israeli and American Jewry, & much more.
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    They said I could “ask @havivrettiggur anything…” and so I did! Come for the election talk, stay for the wide-ranging discussion of the nature of Zionism, the central role of the IDF in Israeli society, and much much more.
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  3. Aaron MacLean✓@AaronBMacLean
    They said I could “ask @havivrettiggur anything…” and so I did! Come for the election talk, stay for the wide-ranging discussion of the nature of Zionism, the central role of the IDF in Israeli society, and much much more.
    School of War @schoolofwarpod
    “You can become the mayor of Vienna, simply running against the Jews. … Can I really say that that’s not true about America today?” As Israel votes and U.S. midterms near, @havivrettiggur joins @AaronBMacLean in Jerusalem to discuss a dangerous time for Jews everywhere.
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    RT @aidan_stretch: On Oct. 19, a Russian strike on a Kharkiv park killed five people, including a 1-year-old girl. @CBSNews obtained photos showing air-defense radars offline that day due to SpaceX’s Starlink restrictions. Alina Spichak walked me through the last steps of her sister Yulia, who died there.
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    “You can become the mayor of Vienna, simply running against the Jews. … Can I really say that that’s not true about America today?” As Israel votes and U.S. midterms near, @havivrettiggur joins @AaronBMacLean in Jerusalem to discuss a dangerous time for Jews everywhere.
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    Yes… major implications for… “search and rescue…”
    Praveen Kumar Verma @Alacritic_Super
    Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks. By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time. Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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    Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks. By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time. Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
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    RT @NavalInstitute: #OTD in 1944, the outnumbered destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers of Taffy 3 confronted a vastly more powerful Japanese force off Samar. Ships including USS Johnston (DD-557), Hoel (DD-533), and Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) fought against overwhelming odds to protect the American landing forces at Leyte. Their courage remains one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. naval history. Read more in Proceedings:
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    RT @John_Attridge: Great opening but I'm going to push back on "the clocks were striking thirteen." Many readers will find this confusing. Do you want me to add a clarification like "because it was the future"?
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    RT @EngelsbergIdeas: The French have often taken to the streets to force the state’s hand – but the difference today is that the state itself increasingly resembles a void at the heart of society. France’s long history of revolt | Julian Jackson
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    RT @SpencerGuard: Insane footage of Operation Veles (god of the underworld) in Ukraine. Thousands of miles of pipes offered an underground world Ukraine is mastering/using to escaping the drone death zones to still maneuver/adapt. From underground guides, barricades for underground machine gun battles, tunnel vehicles for logistics/sped surrendering to the rear, toxic gas exposure, infiltration tactics. I've known members of the Khartiia Brigade for years, their innovations for training, robotics, now underground warfare, historic. @wolfejosh @SapperGeologist @traysartech @yadinsoffer @asherdigs
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    RT @millerman: Claude just discovered an unpatchable zero day vulnerability in rawlsian liberalism
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    RT @RLHeinrichs:
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    Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel
    USAF Confirms Bombers Could Have A Major Air-To-Air Combat Role Bombers are now being viewed as another potential air-to-air asset on top of growing the fighter fleet and establishing a CCA force.
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    USAF Confirms Bombers Could Have A Major Air-To-Air Combat Role Bombers are now being viewed as another potential air-to-air asset on top of growing the fighter fleet and establishing a CCA force.
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    RT @Variety: Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series “Picket Fences” and appeared in movies ranging from “MASH” to “Alien,” “Top Gun,” “A River Runs Through It” and “Ted,” has died of natural causes at 93.
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    RT @schoolofwarpod: “It’s been leapt on by three other groups.” Historian @aroberts_andrew warns that protests over education spending in France have been seized upon by the far left, Islamists, and opportunistic rioters. Roberts joins @AaronBMacLean on School of War. Full episode coming soon.
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    RT @VALERIEinNYT: Witkoff to Putin: “He is a 75-year-old-man and you talk so much about about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also sir, and I salute that.”
    Ben Tavener @BBCBenTavener
    First Witkoff lines out of Putin meeting, per Russian wires: - says talks in Oslo were productive with some progress made; - hopes trilateral Russia-Ukraine-US talks can restart, asks Putin to consider this; - says there is potential for US-Russia economic relations to develop once Ukraine conflict ends; - thanks Putin for the “diesel deal” on behalf of Donald Trump, and for freeing retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard from Russian jail
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    First Witkoff lines out of Putin meeting, per Russian wires: - says talks in Oslo were productive with some progress made; - hopes trilateral Russia-Ukraine-US talks can restart, asks Putin to consider this; - says there is potential for US-Russia economic relations to develop once Ukraine conflict ends; - thanks Putin for the “diesel deal” on behalf of Donald Trump, and for freeing retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard from Russian jail
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    RT @aidan_stretch: And as of now, the Starlink slowdown hasn’t been resolved. Ukrainian soldiers and officials say the 161 km/h limits on the SpaceX Starshields that enable Ukraine’s midrange drone strikes have yet to be lifted.
    The Wall Street Journal @WSJ
    Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine
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    Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine
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    RT @ollywiseman: "Evidence accumulates by the day that President Donald Trump, feeling political pressure over high diesel prices (which are largely a consequence of the war in Iran) and further incensed by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s refusal to stop his attacks on Russian refineries, is aligning with Russia." Read @AaronBMacLean on Trump's panicked foreign policy.
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    RT @rkylesmith: TBH if I had a name like Kyle Sebag Montefiore I'd also probably be writing magnificent historical tomes by the dozen
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