Sources & Methods

Project Maven, a secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver the U.S. into an age of AI warfare, is the subject of a new book by Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson. Manson speaks with Mary Louise Kelly. 

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President Trump has demanded, begged and threatened U.S.
allies to join the war in Iran.

But those allies aren’t exactly leaping in to help. Can
Trump finish the war he started – without them?

Host Mary Louise Kelly is joined by Arezou Rezvani, NPR’s
correspondent currently in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Rezvani opened up her
reporter’s notebook to share what it’s like covering Iran from outside the country.
NPR’s national security correspondent Greg Myre joined them to talk about the importance
of Kharg Island, Iran's oil export hub on the Persian Gulf, and what path President
Trump might take to end the conflict.

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President Trump says there’s practically nothing left to target in Iran. Is the White House looking for an off ramp?

Host Mary Louise Kelly is joined this week by Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman, and Tel Aviv-based International Correspondent Daniel Estrin. They discuss how drone and satellite technology is coming into play in the war in Iran, the limited communication from U.S. and Israeli militaries about the war's progress and the divergent goals of the two countries.

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Poor planning, overly ambitious goals, not thinking through the aftermath. These are the parallels that Richard Haass sees between the 2003 U.S. invastion of Iraq and its current air campaign against Iran.

Haass was in charge of planning for the invasion as a top official in the State Department. He was a voice of dissent within the administration. Now he's president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the Home & Away newsletter. He talks to Host Mary Louise Kelly about the Trump administration's foreign policy and national security apparatus and where he sees it falling short on Iran.

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The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is spilling out across the region. What are the goals? And how does it end?

Host Mary Louise Kelly talks with International Correspondent Aya Batrawy, based in Dubai, and Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman, about the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Six days of war have turned the middle east upside down, and it's still not clear how the U.S. will determine when its objectives have been accomplished.

Recommended Iran reading:

Blackwave by Kim Ghattas
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
Prisoner by Jason Rezaian
Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino

Listener spy novel recommendation: 

Pariah by Dan Fesperman

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