Ep 62: Mike Pompeo on American Foreign Policy

School of War · Feb 21, 2023 · 36m

Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and author of Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, joins the show to talk about American foreign policy and his service in the Trump administration.

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• 01:13 Introduction

• 02:12 Chinese surveillance balloons

• 05:01 Chinese espionage “inside the gates”

• 07:19 Meeting Xi Jinping

• 10:25 “Mushy Middle” diplomacy

• 15:58 Republicans and Russia

• 20:18 America in the Middle East

• 26:00 Why talk to the bad guys?

• 31:35 Afghanistan

• 33:05 Resetting the…