Part II: Rising from the Ashes - In this second episode, we discuss the state of the Russian state and military after the Cold War and its eventual transformation into a thoroughly modern bureaucracy capable of challenging a US intervention abroad. We detail Russia's intervention in Syria and try to understand how it managed to beat out the US-Afghan Model.

Published 7-26-2018Intro/Outro music by Komiku.Hosted, written, and produced by Erik Grossman