Provoked Footnotes

The following are the 6,632 footnotes, 7,908 citations, from Scott Horton’s 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. If any hyperlink seems broken, first try adding the www. after the https:// or...

5/19/26 Dave DeCamp on China, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza

Download Audio. Scott brings Dave DeCamp back on the show to run through some of the biggest foreign policy news. They start with Trump’s trip to meet with Xi in China which may have had some implications for US policy towards Taiwan. They then discuss whether Trump...

4/30/26 Daniel Davis on What’s Been Happening in Ukraine

Download Audio. Scott brings Daniel Davis back on the show. As the world’s been focused on what’s happening between the US and Iran, important developments have taken place in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Scott and Davis break these down and then finish with a quick...

3/5/26 Robert Pape on the Limits of Air Power

Download Audio. Scott interviews author and scholar Robert Pape about the insights he’s gained from his decades of extensive research into the strategic effectiveness of air power in war. Pape argues that, while modern precision bombs are remarkable at carrying out...