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National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields and the halls of power, they bring you inside the Pentagon, State Department, and intelligence community to help you understand America"s shifting role in the world, and how events in faraway places matter here at home. Additional episodes feature interviews with power players from the NatSec world --

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Can Trump’s royal welcome keep the U.S.-U.K....

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2025/09/18

And an increasingly isolated Israel launches a new ground offensive on Gaza City.In this episode, political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben and diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen talk about the foreign policy issues that loomed large as President Trump visited U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer: the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. NPR international correspondent Daniel Estrin joins from Tel Aviv to talk about how Israelis are reacting to their increasing isolation amid international pressure on

26:38

Two wars escalate abroad with political violence at home

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2025/09/11

And Senator Elissa Slotkin takes our questions about the post-9/11 intel community.This episode, national security correspondent Greg Myre and domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef join Mary Louise Kelly discuss how U.S. national security changed after the September 11th attacks. Will the structures put in place to prevent another attack survive the Trump administration’s cuts to intelligence agencies? And did a focus on militant Islamism mean turning away from threats posed by white

21:36

Navy cartel strike / China power flex / global order

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2025/09/04

Trump's anti-drug warfare. China, Russia, and North Korea stand shoulder to shoulder.This episode, Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and NPR international correspondent Anthony Kuhn join Mary Louise Kelly to break down the Trump administration's military strike against a boat the President says was transporting drugs, and his larger confrontational posture toward Venezuela and South America. And they explain the geopolitical message behind China's massive military parade this week. Email the show

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