In the third and final part of Military Matters’ series on Russia, co-hosts Jack Murphy and Rod Rodriguez look at urban warfare in Ukraine, Russian attitudes toward the war and the West, and how the conflict could end.

In this Fast Take episode, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy discuss last week’s interviews and analyze Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s virtual address to Congress last week.

In the second part of Military Matters’ series on Russia, co-host Jack Murphy speaks with Russian military and security expert Mark Galeotti about Russia’s military and special operations forces, and with journalist and author Tim Weiner about how the West is pushing back against the invasion.

On this Fast Take episode, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy discuss last week’s season premiere, which delved into the history of Russia, The Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the lead-up to the war in Ukraine.

In the Season 5 premiere of Military Matters, co-host Jack Murphy delves into the history behind the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Host Rod Rodriguez interviewed Daniel, a U.S. Special Forces service member and intelligence professional who was working in Afghanistan during the evacuation of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies in August 2021 following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

The death of Special Forces soldier Mark Leshikar remains a mystery nearly four years later. Leshikar was fatally shot in March 2018 by Army Delta Force member William J. Lavigne.

This week, Military Matters revisits the controversial Season 2 episode “QAnon — exposing extremist views within the ranks.”

While the Military Matters podcast team is in pre-production for Season 5, the podcast is revisiting past episodes that made an impact or were especially important. First up is the Season 2 premiere, “What happened to Vanessa Guillén?”

The end of the Afghanistan War and the rise of China dominated the fourth season of Military Matters. In this season wrap-up episode, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy revisit these stories.

This week on Military Matters, co-host Jack Murphy interviews Michael “Mick” Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East and retired CIA paramilitary operations officer and Marine.

This week, Military Matters talks with former Special Forces Lt. Col. Scott Mann about the veterans with Task Force Pineapple who helped save more than 1,000 people in Afghanistan, all on the phone from their kitchens, cars and living rooms.

In this week’s Fast Take episode, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy offer their reflections on the Afghanistan evacuation.

On this episode of Military Matters, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy talk to two of the veterans who helped save Afghan allies, and the issues that arose along the way with the State Department’s Special Immigrant Visas for Afghans.

This week on the Fast Take, Jack Murphy and co-host Rod Rodriguez offer more insight into great power competition between the U.S. and China and the U.S. and Russia, moving beyond SOF’s mission and into the military as a whole.

Following up on Military Matters’ three-part series on the rise of China, co-host Jack Murphy takes a look at how great power competition will affect the missions of Special Operations Forces in this week’s episode.

With Halloween fast approaching, cohosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy are back with more ghost stories in this Fast Take episode, including a couple of their own.

People love good ghost stories, especially around Halloween. The military has some spine-tingling supernatural tales, from ghostly ships traversing the seas to the wandering spirits of soldiers walking long-forgotten battlefields.

In this Fast Take episode of Military Matters, hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy discuss the previous episode, an interview with Dr. Eric Kurlander about the Nazi fascination with the occult. Could the desire to live in a fantasy world happen again, but this time here in the USA?