Rob Stein
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556 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Rob Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were airstrikes here or there capturing particular individuals.
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So, yes, it was absolutely a departure from going through a big formal process.
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But often because of this new nature of the warfare, you weren't waging a new war in another country.
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You were going after a specific target or even a specific individual.
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And just a final note on that, President Trump has carried out nine military operations so far in his second term and has not gotten a congressional declaration for any of them.
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The bombing of Iran last year, the current war, Venezuela, the attacks on the suspected drug boats.
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There's four of them, but there's...
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many more as well.
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So you can see how easily it is now for a U.S.
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president to carry out military action and not feel the need to get any kind of authorization.
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Yeah, Miles, 9-11 just led to this surge in patriotism and a lot of young people joining the military.
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And it's really important, I think, to understand the contrast of the quarter century before 9-11 and this quarter century since 9-11.
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You know, the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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And so...
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from 1975 to 2001, 26-year period, the US really only fought one very brief war, and that was in Iraq and Kuwait in 1991, the first Gulf War to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
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It went very well as a military campaign.
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The Iraqis were driven out.
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And so you had this 26-year period where you didn't have a lot of war here.
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Now we've seen 25 years of almost nonstop U.S.
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military involvement in overseas wars.
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