The Polistratics podcast -S1E1 - Inside The War:
On the first episode of this limited-run podcast series, we speak with Professor David Des Roches, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Council on International Mediation.
Professor Des Roches is also a professor at the Thayer Marshall Institute and a senior defense and security expert with more than three decades of experience spanning U.S. Army operations, Middle East and Gulf security policy, defense cooperation, and international affairs. His career combines operational experience in special operations and airborne command with senior roles in U.S. Department of Defense policy, academic research, and deep regional expertise across the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, South Asia, and the Mediterranean littorals. He is widely recognized as an analyst, author, and educator on Gulf security, arms transfers, and stabilization issues.
We spoke with him on Day 15 of the U.S.–Israel–Iran war to take a deeper look inside the conflict: the strategies, the tactics, the decisions shaping the battlefield, and the possible outcomes. Most importantly, we ask the question everyone is now asking—how, and when, does this war end?
