{"podcast":{"title":"ChinaTalk","slug":"chinatalk-418044","podcast_index_feed_id":418044,"rss_url":"https://access.acast.com/rss/6105626053204f0019234612","website_url":"https://chinatalk.substack.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/2906a086-c1c2-11ec-9157-e76a0695a03d/image/show-cover.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jordan Schneider","episode_count":535,"summary":"Conversations exploring China, technology, and US-China relations. Guests include a wide range of analysts, policymakers, and academics. Hosted by Jordan Schneider. Check out the newsletter at https://www.chinatalk.media/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T06:17:09.814900+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chinatalk-418044"},"episode":{"title":"Second Breakfast: F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812","slug":"second-breakfast-f-15-pete-s-purges-centcom-hubris-war-of-1812","published_at":"2026-04-03T17:54:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chinatalk-418044/second-breakfast-f-15-pete-s-purges-centcom-hubris-war-of-1812","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chinatalk-418044","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CHTAL9647011072.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CHTAL9647011072.mp3","summary":"An F-15E is down in southern Iran. Justin, Tony, Eric and I talk through what combat search and rescue actually looks like, how a captured pilot changes the politics of ending this war, and why a hostage makes the \"pack up and go home\" play functionally impossible. Then: the AWACS that \"only\" lost a third of itself on a Saudi tarmac, why CENTCOM is still parking high-value aircraft like it's 2003, and what Operation Spiderweb and three years of Ukrainian drone warfare should have taught us but didn't. Plus Pete Hegseth's ongoing purge of the officer corps, the Enron theory of Pentagon innovation, and why the War of 1812 is the best analogy for where this is all heading. Tony's article on CENTCOM sucking: https://www.breakingbeijing.com/p/what-did-we-learn-centcom Justin on just war: https://justinmc.substack.com/p/just-war-theory song: https://suno.com/s/vroapDDimBnmCxdO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"An F-15E is down in southern Iran. Justin, Tony, Eric and I talk through what combat search and rescue actually looks like, how a captured pilot changes t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4269,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chinatalk-418044/episodes/second-breakfast-f-15-pete-s-purges-centcom-hubris-war-of-1812/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chinatalk-418044/second-breakfast-f-15-pete-s-purges-centcom-hubris-war-of-1812.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}