# Shashank Joshi

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WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Navy, and AI Cyberwar with Shashank of the Economist

The USS Abraham Lincoln is coming home after a deployment that stretched past 240 days, and the bill is about to come due: mechanical failures, rations down to the emergency stores, 20,000 unfilled billets at sea, and a maintenance backlog funneling into the one carrier repair yard on each coast. M…

Venezuela Oil Deal, A Depleted Military, and the CIA Warns Moscow

Key Topics The Venezuela oil deal is framed as a huge geopolitical gamble, with claims of 65 billion barrels and a U.S. stake in a private Venezuelan company. Nahal Toosi explains why the deal is surrounded by legal, constitutional, and practical doubts, including questions about infrastructure, f…

The Economist's Shashank Joshi

Shashank Joshi, The Economist's new Washington bureau chief, on Trump's Iran dilemma, the bipartisan backlash to data centers, Democratic Socialists' ascent, Midterms math....much more.

The Syrian Civil War: How It Started

Dan is joined by the Defence Editor for The Economist, Shashank Joshi, to explore the origins of the brutal Syrian civil war that has left the country in ruin and with an uncertain future. They unravel the complex political and cultural history of the region to explain why we're seeing turmoil toda…

Lawfare Archive: Conversations from Aspen, Part 1: Shashank Joshi on European Security and Iris Ferguson on the Arctic

From July 23, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson shares some of the conversations he had with leading policy experts and practitioners on the margins of this year's Aspen Security Forum, which took place last week.  First he sat down Shashank Joshi, the Defence Edito…

Lawfare Archive: Conversations from Aspen, Part 1: Shashank Joshi on European Security and Iris Ferguson on the Arctic

From July 23, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson shares some of the conversations he had with leading policy experts and practitioners on the margins of this year's Aspen Security Forum, which took place last week.  First he sat down Shashank Joshi, the Defence Edito…

Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won't Invade NATO—Yet

Yascha Mounk and Shashank Joshi also discuss Trump's war in the Middle East and the differences between the United States and Europe. Shashank Joshi is The Economist‘s Washington bureau chief, having previously covered defense and national security for the publication for eight years. In this wee…

Russian Hybrid Attacks and Europe's Response

Europe is facing an escalation in high-profile Russian hybrid attacks. Earlier this month, Germany attributed an attempted drone attack at Leipzig Airport to Moscow, Denmark accused a Russian ship of shooting flares at one of its military helicopters, and NATO jets downed a drone carrying explosive…

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: highlights from recent episodes -- including Shashank Joshi, The Economist's new Washington bureau chief; the duo behind The Wall Street Skinny; and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Kaufman on his book, When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country–and Led U…

Common in Clinical Practice: Thyroid Disease and Diabetes

Drs Kaniksha Desai and Shashank Joshi discuss the intersection between thyroid disease and diabetes. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. Kaniksha Desai, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Shas…