The defense news space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 33 of the best, including The Lawfare Podcast, Irregular Warfare Podcast, and War on the Rocks.
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On iss...
Irregular Warfare Podcast
The Irregular Warfare Podcast explores an important component of war throughout history. Small wars, drone strikes, special operations forces, coun...
War on the Rocks
Discussions over drinks with security, defense, and foreign policy insiders and experts. The original War on the Rocks podcast series.
Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast
Aviation Week & Space Technology editors take a look at some of the bigger-picture issues in the world of aerospace and defense
Shield of the Republic
Foreign policy and national security analysis from Eric Edelman and Eliot Cohen www.shieldoftherepublic.com
A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
This is the podcast of WAR ROOM, the official online journal of the U.S. Army War College. Join us for provocative discussions about U.S. national ...
SpyTalk
SpyTalk lives at the intersection of intelligence operations, foreign policy, homeland security, and military strategy. Hosted by veteran national ...
The Last Line of Defense
In this era of uncertainty, knowledge is power. Hosted by Dr. Seth G. Jones, The Last Line of Defense breaks down and analyzes the latest national ...
The John Batchelor Show
The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New ...
Defense in Depth
Defense in Depth, hosted by David Spark, Steve Zalewski, Geoff Belknap, and Edward Contreras, promises clear talk on cybersecurity's most controver...
The Merge
Military technology, trends, and national security...presented with unique insights, salt, and wit from combat aviator veterans and industry expert...
Net Assessment
Hosts Melanie Marlowe, Christopher Preble, and Zack Cooper, debate their way through some of the toughest and most contentious topics related to st...
SOFREP Radio
Special operations military news and straight talk with the guys in the community. Hosted by former military operators. As seen ranked #1 in Apple ...
The Insider
Vanishing Inc. is proud to share with you our magic podcast, The Insider. Interviews with the finest magicians in the world.
National Defense Magazine
National Defense is a podcast on military technology and defense industry trends, from the articles of National Defense Magazine.
RUSI Journal Radio
RUSI Journal Radio, the inaugural podcast of the RUSI Journal, is a new series dedicated to exploring some of today's biggest issues in defence and...
Defense & Aerospace Report
Welcome to the Defense and Aerospace Report podcast, our weekly podcast on the global defense and aerospace business sponsored by Bell, and hosted ...
The Drone Ultimatum
The preeminent podcast for all things drones, defense tech, defense policy, and modern warfare. Featured guests include industry leaders, policy ex...
The Weekly Break Out
The weekly news show on defense politics, policy, procurement and technology from the the world's leading defense media, Breaking Defense. Availabl...
DIA Connections
DIA Connections is an exciting new podcast featuring overlooked or unfamiliar aspects of who we are, what we do, and the countless ways we've impac...
Defense One Radio
A show about the defense industry. // "We want to become the Netflix of podcasts." —Tim Hartman, CEO of Government Executive
The OSINT Bunker
Military news and defence podcast hosted by @DefenceGeek, @Osinttechnical, @AnAustinThing2 and @geoallison in collaboration with the UK Defence Jou...
The Defense Tech Underground
At Defense Tech Underground, our mission is to serve American national security by championing the transformative impact of technology on the commo...
K-Defence
The IISS podcast K-Defence explores South Korea’s evolving role in regional and global security, with a focus on its defence industry, defence inno...
The Spear
The Spear is a podcast from the Modern War Institute at West Point. It sets out to explore the combat experience, with each episode featuring a gue...
The Shephard Defence Podcast
The Shephard Defence Podcast tells the stories of the defence industry, trends in military technology and the procurement programmes that get the k...
Early Bird Brief
The most important military and defense stories of the day, delivered each weekday morning. Brought to you by Defense News and Military Times, the ...
DefenceReport: Wires Brief
Wires Brief is DefenceReport.com's daily podcast covering the latest defence news, military developments, and international relations updates from ...
How this list is built
Shows are selected from PodSEO topic associations and matched AI recommendations. They are ordered by their average PodSEO score over records dated since seven days ago, with ties ordered by show name. The score combines podcast-platform search visibility, editorial placements, and chart performance, with adjustments for Apple listing status. AI recommendations help identify candidates; their frequency does not determine the order. Each list includes up to 100 shows with an Apple Podcasts ID and updates when regenerated.
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