School of War

Aaron MacLean

Booking Overview

This is an interview show focused on warfare, national security, defense technology, military history, and geopolitics, featuring senior government officials, military commanders, prominent scholars, and major political decision-makers. Credible pitches include defense executives and innovators, retired or active military leaders, foreign-policy scholars, historians, and policymakers with substantial national-security expertise; booking is likely very difficult because the show regularly features highly prominent guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 341

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Aaron MacLean - CBS News national security analyst and Free Press columnist; former senior fellow at Hudson Institute, foreign-policy advisor and legislative director to Senator Tom Cotton, and U.S. Marine Corps v...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

very_high

Typical Credentials:

Senior government officials, national-security policymakers, military commanders, defense-technology leaders, prominent military historians, and scholars with recognized expertise in war, political violence, or geopolitics.

Required Achievements:

National or international political leadership, Senior military command or government service, Leadership in defense technology or the defense industrial base, Widely recognized academic scholarship, Direct experience advising or shaping national-security policy

Recent Guest Discussions

Travis Metz - U.s. Drone Production, Reducing Dependence On Chinese Components, Autonomous Systems, Electronic Warfare, And Building An American Defense-technology Industry.

Gary Saul Morson - The History And Psychology Of Terrorism, Revolutionary Russia, Dostoevsky, Communism, And Political Extremism.

Dave McCormick - Modern Warfare, Ukraine, The Defense Industrial Base, Artificial Intelligence And China, Socialism, Wealth Inequality, And The Future Of American Power.

David Cam Smith - The Adaptation Of Armored Warfare To Drones, Precision Strikes, Battlefield Data, Casualty Evacuation, And The Army’s Future Equipment Needs.

Jose A. Reyes - The Role Of Tanks And Armored Vehicles On Drone-heavy Battlefields, Combined Arms, Electronic Warfare, Battlefield Data, And Unmanned Armor.

Recent Topics

Warfare, National Security, Military, Defense, Geopolitics

Episodes

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School of War

Shot Down over Serbia: General Goldfein’s Incredible Story

September 01, 2026

The story of Air Force General David Goldfein, who miraculously survived after his plane was shot down over Serbia in 1999, has since become military legend. Today, he joins School of War to recount the harrowing rescue mission that saved him, how he stayed alive behind enemy lines, and the lessons his remarkable career offers about leadership, airpower, and preparing America for the next war. 2:43 An Air Force Family 3:25 Rejected by the Air Force Academy 6:39 Becoming an F-16 Pil...

Our Foreign Policy Divide Began with the Korean War

August 28, 2026

More than 75 years after the Korean War, its lessons endure—and divisions over isolationism and American power continue to shape the discourse around modern global conflicts. Dane J. Cash, historian and author of The Forgotten Debate: The Korean War and the Roots of America's Ideological Divisions, joins School of War to explain how the left’s hawk-dove divide during the Korean War foreshadowed the neoconservative break from the liberal consensus during the 1970s and why the political battles...

Inside America’s Fight for Drone Dominance

August 25, 2026

The U.S. military needs more drones, and it needs to build them without Chinese parts. Today, Defense Innovation Unit Deputy Director Travis Metz joins School of War to discuss how America can build drones quickly, cheaply, and on U.S. soil; what America can learn from Ukraine’s drone war; and the Pentagon’s new billion-dollar effort to upgrade its aging military technology. 2:23 - Why America Is Behind on Drones 4:32 - The Drone Dominance Program 6:51 - Breaking Dependence on China 10:23...

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