Shashank Joshi

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307 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · New world of warcraft: how conflict has forever changed · 29 May 2026 podcast

strained like Japan loading up with Tomahawk missiles brimming out of their pockets.

War is just so much more palpable than when I started this job eight years ago, and I think that that is only going to continue.

Well, I have the great privilege of going to Washington, DC to serve as the paper's Washington Bureau Chief.

And I think there is some continuity here.

You know, America is a society that's been shaped powerfully by war.

If I look at the people around Donald Trump, Pete Hegsaith, J.D.

Vance, these are veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars.

And I think the Iraq and Afghan campaigns really traumatized American society, had a lasting effect, they shaped its politics and

Attitudes towards government to this day.

And of course, America is currently at war.

It's blockading Iran, it has forces all over the Middle East.

Donald Trump wants a Pentagon budget that's going well over a trillion dollars.

So I'm not escaping war, but in this new role, I'll also have to think really deeply and profoundly about all the other big changes taking place in America, from the midterms to the 2028 elections to the technological forces reshaping American society.

Society and I am really looking forward to that.

Thanks

The Intelligence from The Economist · Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading · 25 May 2026 podcast

The book I'd like to recommend is The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, and I've got my trusted copy right here.

No one has ever confused this for a work of great literature, but it is a fantastic techno thriller.

In fact, Tom Clancy almost invented the genre of techno thrillers because it's a really pacey account of submarine warfare of a disaffected Soviet submarine captain.

Marco Ramius, probably best known for being played by Sean Connery in the subsequent film with a terrible, terrible Russian accent.

But this book was not only a fantastic thriller, it was also incredibly realistic in so many military ways.

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