Episode Notes:

This special two-part episode features Wolfgang Hagarty, a former signals intelligence marine who volunteered to fight in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in 2022. He saw action in Kharkiv, Kherson/Mykolaiv, Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia, and Kupyansk. This wide-ranging discussion covers UAS and counter-UAS, command and control, frontline adaptation and innovation, and perhaps, most importantly, from a Marine Corps perspective—how modern peer-on-peer warfare consumes material and human lives at a scale that no one currently in uniform has seen or experienced.