RANE Podcast Series
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This podcast series offers risk intelligence and analysis from RANE Network. RANE is a risk intelligence company that provides business professionals with access to critical insights, analysis, and support, enabling them to better anticipate, monitor, and respond to emerging risks and threats. In the RANE podcast series, risk management experts and thought leaders share best practices for managing business risk, geopolitical risk, physical and cyber security risks, compliance risk, and other key risks and threats that organizations face today. These podcasts empower businesses, governments, and individuals to confidently navigate an increasingly complex international environment. At RANE, we believe shared risks require shared solutions and invite you to listen in.
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Apr 17, 2019 • 35min
Fred Burton and Kate Winkler Dawson on Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog
It happened unexpectedly. The whole city was afraid. No one could see. Many could not breathe. And amid the terror of London's Great Smog of 1952, a different, equally sinister drama was underway.
The London Smog killed an estimated 12,000 people. But those were not the only people who died in those dark days.
Kate Winkler Dawson’s book, Death in the Air, tells two parallel stories of the Great Smog, both of which left victims choking.
Apr 17, 2019 • 21min
Mission Critical with Fred Burton and Mark Greaney
You're fed up. You're considered the world's most dangerous assassin. A lot of people want to take you down. And you still have to get your job done. Mission Critical is the latest in Mark Greaney's Gray Man series. This one involves state actors, espionage, a secret prisoner and a race against time. Mark Greaney sits down to discuss his career, his Gray Man series and espionage with Stratfor's Fred Burton.
Mar 22, 2019 • 21min
Michael Pullara on The Spy Who Was Left Behind
Author Michael Pullara spent years trying to solve the question of why CIA agent, Freddie Woodruff, was murdered in 1993. Amid transformative world events, Pullara manages to discover enough to set a wrongfully accused free and to connect the dots of espionage and counter-espionage during the end of the Cold War.
Mar 15, 2019 • 21min
The Protected with Michael W. Trott
There are people in this world who need protecting; among them presidents, royals, diplomats, the rich and the famous. And then there are the people who do the protecting; the secret service, the bodyguards, the security officers. But who are these people and how are they trained? And why do they undertake such a profession?
Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton sits down with international security and intelligence professional and now author, Michael W. Trott to discuss his book, The Protected, which offers a peek inside the practice of Executive Protection.
Jan 14, 2019 • 24min
Raven Rock with Author Garrett Graff
How did Cold War governments plan to preserve the continuity of power in the face of devastating nuclear war? Lots of planning and a fair amount of creative problem solving. In this episode of the Stratfor Podcast, Chief Security Officer Fred Burton sits down with author Garrett Graff to discuss his book, Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die.
Nov 20, 2018 • 3min
A Second U.S. - North Korea Summit?
North Korea has indicated its interested in holding a second summit between Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump. The White House has indicated its interest in a summit as well, but when would it take place... if it happens at all? Stratfor Senior Vice President of Strategic Analysis Rodger Baker explains the geopolitical constraints and opportunities surrounding any second U.S.-North Korea summit.
Oct 4, 2018 • 14min
Beirut Rules with Author Fred Burton
On April 18, 1983, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated in front of the United States Embassy in Beirut. Those killed in the suicide attack included the entire U.S. intelligence presence in Lebanon at that time. The man sent by the CIA to pick up the pieces was William Buckley.
Buckley’s story is the focus of the latest book from New York Times best selling authors Fred Burton and Samuel Katz. In this episode of the podcast, host Ben Sheen sits down with Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton to discuss Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah’s War Against America.
Sep 30, 2018 • 13min
They Fought Alone with Author Charles Glass
As Great Britain prepared its military to battle Nazi Germany in World War II, a select few were deployed behind enemy lines as part of a new program to lead a resistance, carry out intelligence operations and harass German forces, slowing their ability to solidify control of the continent. In this episode of the podcast, we hear the true story of two brothers tasked with just such a mission.
Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton sits down with author, journalist and Stratfor Worldview Contributor Charles Glass to discuss his latest book, They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-occupied France.
Sep 7, 2018 • 22min
Imperial Twilight with Author Stephen Platt
As China moves toward what it sees as an imperial dawn, in this episode of the Stratfor Podcast we take a look back at the last time China wielded great power on the global stage with professor and author Stephen R. Platt. Platt sits down with Stratfor Senior Vice President of Strategic Analysis Rodger Baker and Asia Pacific Analyst Evan Rees to discuss his latest book, Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age.
Aug 24, 2018 • 17min
The Terminal List with Author Jack Carr
What would happen if a U.S. special forces operator with a score to settle brought the insurgent tactics he’d been fighting against overseas back home? That’s the idea behind The Terminal List, the debut novel from former Navy SEAL and Special Operations Task Unit Commander Jack Carr.
In this episode of the Stratfor Podcast, Carr sits down with Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton to discuss his background, his writing and what comes next.
