What a Hell of a Way to Die

It will probably come as no surprise to you that the military is having hard time meeting its recruiting goals. In fact, for the first time since 2005 (a year when nothing bad happened), the Army failed to meet its fiscal year target. So, in response...

We were so busy ringing in the holidays with movie reviews that we didn’t have time to comment on Jim Mattis’ resignation, Trump’s extremely thought-out Syria zonk, the DC defense establishment backlash to these two developments, and so much...

We heard that some of you were watching movies at Christmas, and so we watched a war movie (with some strong Christmas movie overtones) — Sam Mendes’ 2005 film Jarhead. Is it fascist? Well, it’s definitely muscly and macho. But, as Nate,...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which means Francis has disappeared on vacation and left Nate at the helm of the show. This week, he speaks with investigative journalist and fan of the podcast Ken Klippenstein () about the recent...

In this special promo segment, you can hear a preview of this month's installment of Is It Fascist?, in which Nate and Francis review the 1984 cult classic 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'. They analyze its inscrutable...

Sign up for the weekly newsletter! We're bringing it back and putting it in your inbox every Friday - This week, Nate and Francis discuss the recent revelation that former ISAF commander General (Retired) Stanley McChrystal told Secretary of State...

We’re a highly organized military podcast, and as such it only made sense that we’d throw out our episode plans and instead react to breaking news. After hearing about the death of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, we decided to discuss his...

In this week’s episode of Hell of a Way, the gang examines recent commentary from Bill Kristol and Max Boot, famous pro-intervention conservatives whose newly-cemented places in the hearts of liberals comes solely due to their opposition to Trump....

In this week's episode of What a Hell of a Way to Die, Nate, Francis, and Adrian discuss the recent spate of Navy SEAL-related headlines for murder, murder-ish behavior, and much more. Specifically, they discuss a recent NYTimes piece about a SEAL on...

In this week's episode of What a Hell of a Way to Die, Nate, Francis, and Adrian have come to the realization that we’ve been doing this show for two years now. So, in honor of this milestone, and in honor of the fact that we recorded this on...