There’s a reason David Betz’s paper “The Future of War is Civil War” went viral in places you’d never expect a war studies professor to be quoted. In our interview, Betz — a professor at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies who spent decades studying insurgency and counterinsurgency abroad before turning that same lens…
The world you thought you understood is being dismantled — and almost no one in mainstream media will tell you how or why. Retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor has spent decades inside the machine: advising the Pentagon, commanding forces in combat, watching the decisions that shaped today’s catastrophe from the inside. In this interview, he is…
In this in‑depth sit‑down, Congressman Thomas Massie (KY‑4) lays out a blistering critique of NATO, U.S. intervention in Europe, and the way Washington has helped fuel the Ukraine war and other conflicts on the road to a potential Third World War. He argues NATO has become a Cold War relic that drags the United States…
In this episode of WWIII, I sit down with Alain Juillet, the former head of French intelligence for economic security and a veteran of both the corporate world and the state. Drawing on decades of experience at the intersection of intelligence, strategy, and business, he explains how NATO expansion, the Ukraine war, and great‑power rivalry…
Scott Horton has spent decades tracing the wires that connect America’s foreign policy to blowback abroad and decay at home, and in this new interview he lays it all out with brutal clarity. From the war on terror to the proxy war in Ukraine, he shows how Washington has repeatedly switched sides, fueled extremism, and…
America exists today to make war. That is how retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson opens this devastating, unflinching interview about the American empire, nuclear escalation, Israel, Ukraine, and the very real possibility that World War III could end human civilization. From the inside corridors of power with Colin Powell to the manufactured case for…
This interview with retired Col. Doug Macgregor is one of the most unsparing examinations yet of the real cost and futility of modern war. Drawing on examples from Vietnam to Ukraine, Macgregor argues that America has repeatedly bankrupted its economy and hollowed out its industrial base in pursuit of conflicts that do nothing to strengthen…
Former Ambassador Chas Freeman does not speak in slogans. He speaks from experience—after a long career in the U.S. Foreign Service, including the opening to China, service in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense. In this interview for WWIII: The Documentary and our ongoing interview series, Freeman lays…
WWIII: The Documentary is now deep in the edit, and the timing could not be more stark. Just as we were assembling the final cut, war between Israel, the United States, and Iran erupted, forcing a fundamental reassessment of the global risk landscape and the themes explored in the film. What follows is an updated…