Episode 16 - Jesse Driscoll (Part Two: ”True Tales from the Five-Sided Wind Tunnel”)

After taking a year off from podcasting, the first of a two-part "What Did You Do In 2022?" series.  Driscoll discusses a year of participant observation on the Joint Staff, working in the Europe/NATO/Russia division as a Ukraine Desk Officer.  A candid reflection on a disorienting year, as a micro-conflict scholar re-reads Thomas Schelling, signs NDAs, befriends both 'Russia Hawks' and 'Russia Understand-ists', and learns to write in the voice of the Pentagon. 

 

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