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Foreign Policy and Mil Issues courtesy of the World's most OKest Green Beret
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Firsthand military testimony gives its coverage of war, service and public unrest unusual tactical detail and human weight.
Nick Guy builds interviews around the details that conventional military summaries often flatten. Guests reconstruct combat from their own positions, explaining what they saw, what failed and how decisions were made under pressure.
Family photos in a burning barracks: the detail you came to hear from someone who was there.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A family portrait gives the Silver Star story its human weight.
Nick Guy shapes the episode as both a military citation and a family portrait, using Alwin Cash's siblings to show the man behind the Silver Star and the push to correct what the show presents as a Medal of Honor wrong.
A blunt battlefield oral history that puts witness ahead of war movie gloss.
This episode follows the Battle of Kamdesh through Nick Davidson, who enlisted in the Army in 2008, became a scout, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Its strength is the plain, firsthand detail.
A raw QRF recollection of COP Keating, told with memory, detail, and no polish.
Adam Holroyd's return to The After Action Review stays with one hard subject: what it was like to be on the QRF when COP Keating was overrun, and what came after the shooting stopped.
A blunt preparedness discussion about urban unrest, survival, and Clay Martin's new book.
The discussion tracks Nick Guy and Clay Martin as they move from urban unrest and personal security to Martin's new book, Concrete Jungle. It stays focused on the practical question of how a civilian can prepare if a city starts to come apart, with Martin's military background…
A Vietnam EOD story centered on the job, the risk, and the extra $55 a month.
Stu Steinberg’s arc from flunking out of college to Army service and Vietnam-era EOD work gives the episode its backbone. Nick Guy keeps the focus on the practical side of the job: patrols with eyes on the ground for booby traps and tripwires, infantry cover close by, and an…
Sea power, policy, and history in context.
Leadership lessons with history in the room.
Weekly military policy, pay, and deployment briefings.
Strategy beneath the threshold of war.
Military headlines, measured against hard power.
Nick Guy opens by saying Sergeant First Class Alwin Cash is being remembered as an American hero, and he notes the ongoing push with Congress, lobbyists, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense to right what supporters see as a wrong in the award process.
Nick Guy comes back after a stretch away and opens with an apology that feels more like a guy catching his breath than a slick return.
Adam Holroyd returns to revisit COP Keating.
Nick Guy brings back Clay Martin for a blunt conversation about city unrest, preparedness, and the timing of his new book, "Concrete Jungle, A Green Beret's Herb Bible Guide." It opens with jokes and quick banter, then settles into Clay's view that disorder in cities calls for real preparation, not wishful thinking.
Nick Guy talks with Stu Steinberg.
A Green Beret host interviews a Marine journalist about military culture and current events.