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Ep 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia
10 januari 2023 · 36 min
Ronald H. Spector, Professor Emeritus of History at George Washington University and author of A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955, joins the show to discuss the fall of Japan, the spread of Communism, and the role of the United States in postwar Asia.
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• 01:34 Introduction
• 05:57 No clear plan
• 08:30 The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• 10:51 The Indian National Army
• 12:12 Marines in North China
• 15:49 Levels of violence
• 17:24 Was 1949 preventable?
• 22:32 U.S. attitudes towards Korea
• 26:25 Kim Il-sung
• 28:17 Ho Chi Minh goes to Moscow
• 31:08 Stopping the spread of communism
• 33:03 Reconstruction
• 35:09 Post 1955
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Ep 55: Myke Cole and the Spartan Myth
3 januari 2023 · 53 min
Myke Cole, author of The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy, joins the show to discuss what most people get wrong about Sparta, arguing that Spartan warriors were neither more deadly, nor more successful in war, than other Greeks of their day.
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• 01:09 Introduction
• 05:13 “Not especially tough”
• 09:17 Getting it right, not being right
• 10:48 What is the “Bronze Lie”?
• 16:57 Captured by politics
• 23:23 Who were the Spartans?
• 30:11 Spartan slavery
• 34:09 The Greco-Persian Wars
• 37:00 Thermopylae
• 41:32 Sparta and soft power
• 45:30 “Making the time”
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Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism
20 december 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Jonathan Kirshner, Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College and author of An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics, joins the show to discuss realism and realists.
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• 01:40 Introduction
• 02:25 What is Realism?
• 07:10 The birth of modern Realism
• 11:59 To be “scientific” and “predictive”
• 15:10 Not a rejection of social sciences
• 19:30 “Purpose matters”
• 23:40 Liberalism
• 28:04 The Twenty Years Crisis
• 36:00 Ideology matters
• 42:07 The China challenge
• 48:04 Sleepwalking into war?
• 55:48 Where does classical realism fall short?
• 01:02:10 Finding moral counsel
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Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War
13 december 2022 · 44 min
David M. Pritchard, Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland and author of Athenian Democracy at War, joins the show to discuss how and why ancient Athens fought its wars.
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Times Lees meer• 01:41 Introduction
• 02:3 Martial culture in Athens
• 05:08 Democracy and victory
• 11:42 Innovation and participation
• 15:38 Joining up in ancient Athens
• 19:10 Broad support for war
• 24:43 Military morality
• 30:49 Control of the battlefield is victory
• 38:28 Democracy and war today
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Ep 52: Dr. Michael Livingston on the battle of Crécy
6 december 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Dr. Michael Livingston , Professor at The Citadel and author of Crécy: Battle of Five Kings, joins the show to discuss the Hundred Years War, medieval warfare, and the English victory at the battle of Crécy.
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Times Lees meer• 01:53 Introduction
• 02:33 Why Crécy
• 05:53 The Hundred Years War
• 10:29 The French-Scottish connection
• 14:08 Why invade France at all?
• 20:51 Strengths/Weaknesses
• 26:00 Medieval command and control
• 34:01 Crécy the legend
• 38:24 French losses
• 39:17 Crécy the reality
• 44:29 Costly French decisions
• 51:11 The King of Bohemia’s last ride
• 57:52 Hundred Years War ends
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Ep 51: Alexander Mikaberidze on Kutuzov
29 november 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and author of Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace, joins the show to discuss the Russian general Kutuzov, the hero of 1812.
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Times Lees meer• 00:53 Introduction
• 01:31 18th century Russia
• 04:00 A young officer
• 08:57 Modernization
• 12:11 Catherine’s wars
• 14:30 International relations
• 17:00 Shot in the head - twice
• 22:11 Promotions
• 29:18 Tolstoy’s take on Kutuzov
• 32:32 Czar Alexander
• 39:21 Austerlitz
• 48:28 Grand strategy in 1812
• 57:21 Tolstoy and reality
• 1:02:09 Legacy
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Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command
22 november 2022 · 43 min
Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and author of Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, joins the show to discuss how politics and military command are inextricably linked.
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Times Lees meer• 01:08 Introduction
• 02:01 Command
• 05:44 Politics and generalship
• 08:00 MacArthur myths
• 11:59 Educating future commanders
• 15:50 France’s end of empire
• 22:57 Democratic drawbacks
• 27:51 Putin’s position
• 33:49 Ukraine endgame
• 37:27 Better off without Putin
• 39:09 Winter is coming
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Ep 49: William Inboden on Ronald Reagan
15 november 2022 · 56 min
William Inboden, executive director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, joins the show to discuss Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy.
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Times Lees meer• 01:32 Introduction
• 02:09 Inheriting détente
• 06:13 The Soviet understanding
• 09:56 Deterring strength, exploiting weakness
• 13:42 Religious Reagan
• 17:32 Bush as teammate
• 20:54 Win without fighting
• 25:47 Contradictions
• 30:00 South and Central America
• 35:35 Gorbachev
• 40:23 Did Reagan’s approach work?
• 43:53 Kissinger
• 45:09 Reagan as manager
• 50:07 Reagan’s legacy on the Right
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Ep 48: Ian Beckett on the Anglo-Zulu War
8 november 2022 · 55 min
Ian Beckett, professor emeritus of military history at the University of Kent and author of Rorke’s Drift and Isandlwana, joins the show to talk about the two most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War.
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• 01:58 Introduction
• 02:22 British interests in Zululand
• 06:52 The Zulu system
• 09:55 The British plan
• 13:12 The horns of the buffalo
• 16:49 Isandlwana
• 26:44 Innate warriors
• 29:14 Aftermath
• 33:18 Movies and myths
• 42:11 Rorke’s Drift
• 48:38 Firepower wins out
• 53:56 A western way of war?
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Ep 47: Senator Tom Cotton on American Foreign Policy
1 november 2022 · 53 min
Tom Cotton, senator from Arkansas and author of Only the Strong: Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power, joins the show to talk about U.S. foreign policy.
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• 01:03 Introduction
• 03:43 Formative Interests
• 06:47 Bill Rood And The Distant Ramparts
• 11:13 Joining The Infantry
• 13:30 Iraq & Afghanistan
• 18:39 Congress
• 21:19 Foreign Entanglements
• 25:54 Progressivism
• 32:06 Vietnam
• 38:52 Iran
• 44:26 Withdrawal
• 47:15 American Interests And The Rimland
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Ep 46: James M. Scott on Curtis LeMay in World War II
25 oktober 2022 · 55 min
James M. Scott, author of Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb, joins the show to talk about the World War II career of one of the most important and controversial American generals of the 20th Century, Curtis LeMay, and his leadership of the strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific.
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Times Lees meer• 02:00 Introduction
• 03:02 Teaching In Japan
• 06:27 Lemay, Tireless Worker
• 09:47 Bomber Vs Fighter
• 11:43 Europe, B-17, and B-29
• 19:54 Hansel & O’Donnell
• 30:00 LeMay Takes Over
• 32:37 From Dresden To Tokyo
• 35:10 On His Own Authority
• 40:26 “We’ll Be Tried As War Criminals”
• 43:07 Firestorm
• 49:06 What Brought Peace?
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Ep 45: Randall Schriver on China
18 oktober 2022 · 55 min
Randall Schriver, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific affairs and Chairman of the Project 2049 Institute, joins the show to talk about U.S.-China relations and a new project, the China Economic & Strategy Initiative. Lees meer
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• 02:10 Introduction
• 03:36 “Take Chinese Language”
• 11:21 Why 2049?
• 13:40 China In The ’90s
• 18:13 Power Projection and Missiles
• 28:10 The Diplomatic Situation
• 35:00 Economic Entanglement
• 42:44 Decoupling
• 47:32 Urgency And Policy
• 52:00 DeterrenceCheck out the China Economic & Strategy Initiative here -
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Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff
11 oktober 2022 · 42 min
Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff
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Jay Lockenour, associate professor of history at Temple University and author of Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, joins the show to talk about the life of the infamous German general and politician.
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• 01:30 Introduction
• 02:00 Ludendorff’s Significance
• 03:08 Ludendorff’s Early Life
• 05:02 Not Quite A Matinee Idol
• 07:13 The German General Staff
• 11:43 A General Without Portfolio
• 17:50 The War And The Myth
• 22:23 For The Record - The German Military Lost
• 26:12 The Early 1920’s
• 29:49 Erich And Adolf
• 34:10 Ludendorff And The Right
• 37:00 The Holocaust And Ludendorff
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Ep 43: Eli Lake on the Bush administration in the Middle East
13 september 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Eli Lake, host of The Re-Education and national security journalism fellow at the Clements Center, joins the show to talk about 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Times Lees meer• 02:04 Introduction
• 02:43 From Philly To The Middle East
• 05:14 9/11
• 07:49 The World Before
• 09:20 No More Nation Building
• 12:03 Neo-Cons Or Not
• 18:09 Liberal Internationalists
• 22:05 Early Mistakes
• 29:08 Baking In Problems
• 32:46 The Bonn Conference
• 37:04 Capable Of Being Free
• 41:04 Toppling Sadam - Right or Wrong?
• 45:47 WMDs And Insurgency
• 53:25 New Strategies
• 56:51 The Surge
• 59:01 The Loss Of Choice
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Ep 42: Ian Easton on Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Grand Strategy
6 september 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
Ian Easton, senior director at the Project 2049 Institute and author of The Final Struggle: Inside China’s Global Strategy, joins the show to talk about Xi Jinping, the ideology that shaped Jinping and by which he rules, and why his vision for the world should not be dismissed.
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Times Lees meer• 01:56 Introduction
• 02:22 Interested In China
• 05:01 Discovering Taiwan
• 10:32 Perceptions Of The PRC
• 13:11 How The Chinese Government Works
• 17:47 Who Is Xi Jinping?
• 23:42 The Tactics Of Ideology And Control
• 26:29 The “Scourge Of The Corrupt”
• 29:36 Authentic Socialism
• 31:25 Does China’s Communism Matter?
• 37:04 The Blending Of Communism And Nationalism
• 43:04 Exporting Xi Jinping Thought
• 49:19 Absolute Control
• 52:41 Does Xi Jinping Have Rivals?
• 56:04 Optimisim To Pessimism In Taiwan
• 01:04:00 It’s Not All Dark
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Ep 41: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on China
30 augustus 2022 · 56 min
Hal Brands, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Michael Beckley, associate professor of political science at Tufts University, join the show to talk about how an armed confrontation with China could be coming more quickly than most expect.
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Times Lees meer• 01:30 Introduction
• 02:28 Danger Zone
• 05:13 A Matter Of Timing
• 07:55 A Thucydides Trap?
• 13:07 Historical Analogies and 1914
• 20:32 Getting To The Long Game
• 25:37 Sleepwalking Into War?
• 31:10 China’s Problems And Plans
• 35:06 The “Lenin Trap”
• 36:44 Why Does Taiwan Matter?
• 40:27 Commitments And Capabilities
• 44:37 What Will War Look Like?
• 48:24 Cold War Lessons
• 52:22 Getting Through The Danger Zone
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Ep 40: Michael S. Neiberg on Vichy France
9 augustus 2022 · 56 min
Michael S. Neiberg, Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, joins the show to talk American policy towards Vichy France.
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Times Lees meer• 01:21 Introduction
• 02:15 Vichy France - An Overview
• 06:38 A Phony War
• 09:16 American Assumptions Pre-war
• 13:09 Isolationism No Longer Works
• 24:30 Roosevelt’s Policy
• 28:45 Stress In The Anglo-American Alliance
• 33:03 American Vision Of A Post-War World
• 36:00 Vichy Unveiled
• 39:01 Chaos In North Africa
• 43:19 Vichy’s Shame
• 51:57 de Gaulle
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Ep 39: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
2 augustus 2022 · 47 min
Ocie Vest, retired Marine infantry officer, joins the show to talk about his experiences as a platoon commander in the Battle of Marjah and later as a combat leader in Nimruz Province, lessons learned in training and in combat, and how the war can continue after the fighting ends. Second of a two-part conversation.
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Times Lees meer• 01:27 Violent Months
• 06:15 “Do Whatever Those Guys Do”
• 09:42 Tactical Adaptation
• 13:32 A Fighting Exit
• 18:03 “That Sucked…Why’d We Want To Do That So Bad?”
• 21:29 Dispersed Operations
• 26:36 Nimruz Province
• 30:43 Hope For The Future
• 34:39 Leadership
• 36:11 Medically Retired, Twice
• 38:53 The Work Works
• 45:47 “Now Its Up To Them”
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Ep 38: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
26 juli 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
Ocie Vest, retired Marine infantry officer, joins the show to talk about his experiences as a platoon commander in the Battle of Marjah and later as a combat leader in Nimruz Province, lessons learned in training and in combat, and how the war can continue after the fighting ends. First of a two-part conversation. Lees meer
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Times• 01:46 Introduction
• 02:24 Joining The Marines
• 03:55 Quantico
• 09:00 Becoming An Infantry Officer
• 20:22 Camp Lejeune
• 27:21 False Start
• 35:06 Crossing The Line Of Departure
• 40:49 On The Job Learning
• 44:40 Marjah
• 50:43 First Combat
• 59:11 Sustained Combat
• 1:02:45 Different Neighborhood, Different War
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Ep 37: Alexander Watson on WWI’s Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands
19 juli 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Alexander Watson, Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London, joins the show to talk about the Eastern Front in World War One, and how the events of 1914/15 foreshadowed tragedies to come and the crisis in Ukraine today.
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• 01:43 Introduction
• 02:40 WWI In The East
• 05:29 Battlefield - Austria-Hungary
• 10:10 The Austro-Hungarian Army
• 13:28 Coveted Galicia
• 17:44 1914 - A Primordial Soup
• 19:02 The Siege Begins
• 26:27 Przemysl’s Defensive Plan
• 29:50 The Russians Take A Direct Approach
• 36:08 Inside A City Under Siege
• 40:19 Total Exhaustion
• 44:45 Military And Human Consequences
• 50:00 Birthplace Of The Bloodlands
• 55:09 Strange Ends Lees meerMaps Courtesy of United States Military Academy West Point
Eastern Europe, 1914 and Planned Army Concentration Areas in Central Europe, 1914
Operations on The Eastern Front to 20 September 1914
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Ep 36: Charlie Laderman on Hitler’s Decision to Declare War on America
12 juli 2022 · 1 uur
Charlie Laderman, lecturer at King’s College London and co-author of Hitler's American Gamble, joins the show to talk about his latest book, which covers the crucial days between the attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s perplexing declaration of war on the United States. Lees meer
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Times• 01:52 Introduction
• 02:50 Wasn’t War Inevitable?
• 07:12 Japan And Germany - Strange Bedfellows
• 11:10 Hitler’s Blurred Vision
• 14:45 Japan - Will They, Won’t They Attack
• 15:51 Churchill’s Outlook
• 22:58 Anti-Interventionist Sentiment
• 26:57 Anti-Semitism
• 31:18 Roosevelt Sees Things Clearly
• 35:21 A War With Germany, Not Japan
• 38:40 Catastrophic German Strategic Errors
• 43:23 Hitler’s American Gamble
• 49:15 Pearl Harbor Condemned The European Jews
• 53:54 Alarmingly Relevant Parallels
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Ep 35: Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor on the Battle of Midway
28 juni 2022 · 38 min
Brendan Simms, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and his co-author, Steven McGregor, a U.S. Army vet, join the show to talk about their new book, The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway.
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Times Lees meer• 02:12 Introduction
• 02:30 Why Write About Midway?
• 05:54 Strategic Situation In The Pacific
• 08:26 Who Is Chester Nimitz?
• 11:02 Small Scale Start To The Large Scale Fight
• 14:20 Intelligence Breaches And Carrier Combat
• 17:12 Dueling Carrier Doctrines
• 22:09 Lt. Dusty Kleiss On The Day Of Battle
• 24:45 Hide And Seek In The Pacific Ocean
• 28:45 Finding The Kido Butai At Midway
• 30:53 To Dive Bomb Or Not
• 32:11 Never Call Me A Hero
• 33:38 A Fine Days Work
• 36:23 Preparation + Opportunity = Luck
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Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
21 juni 2022 · 58 min
Andrew Corbett, author of Supreme Emergency: How Britain Lives With the Bomb, joins the show to talk about what it’s like commanding one of Her Majesty’s deadliest weapons, how deterrence policy actually works, and why Britain has the Bomb.
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Times Lees meer• 01:45 Introduction
• 02:12 Why Join The Royal Navy?
• 03:31 What’s In A Name?
• 05:31 Day To Day Life
• 10:33 Disorienting Conditions
• 12:35 The Fighting Sub
• 16:58 The Sound Of Silence
• 21:50 The Nuclear Triad
• 24:12 Developments Under The Sea
• 26:05 The British And The Bomb
• 30:12 Command By Sub-Committee
• 32:23 Extreme Secrecy
• 37:35 Morality In Nuclear Weapons
• 45:04 Why Should The UK Have Nukes
• 50:07 Who Shouldn’t Have Nukes
• 54:46 Extended Deterrence
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Ep 33: Steven Pressfield on the Truth about War
14 juni 2022 · 48 min
Steven Pressfield, author of A Man at Arms and Gates of Fire, joins the show to talk about writing historical fiction, telling the truth about war, and why the hardest part of art is “doing the work” . Lees meer
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Times• 01:38 Introduction
• 03:49 Why Historical Fiction?
• 08:25 Creating The “Distant Mirror”
• 12:12 Special Forces
• 14:17 Characters
• 19:44 A Man at Arms
• 22:01 Post-Warrior Life
• 23:46 The Warrior Ethos
• 27:20 Society Needs, But Doesn’t Want, Warriors
• 32:52 Citizen-Soldier
• 34:10 Reading History
• 37:48 Characters Are Uncovered, Not Made
• 40:19 The War Of Art
• 45:52 Telling Stories
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Ep 32: Barry S. Strauss on Actium
7 juni 2022 · 49 min
Barry Strauss, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, joins the show to talk about Octavian, Antony, and Cleopatra, and the battle of Actium, the clash that “made the Roman Empire”. Lees meer
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• 02:04 Introduction
• 02:36 Events Leading To Actium
• 07:45 What Breaks The Second Triumvirate
• 13:29 Strategy Is Not Sterile
• 15:04 Antony’s Will, Octavian’s Weapon
• 20:24 Caesar’s Inheritance
• 22:42 Audacious Agrippa
• 25:26 Ancient Marines And War In The Mediterranean
• 31:18 Breakout Is Victory
• 38:27 Antony In Defeat
• 42:16 End GameLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ep 31: Rich Goldberg on Economic Sanctions and Financial Warfare
31 mei 2022 · 58 min
Rich Goldberg, senior advisor at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and host of both the Cryptonite podcast and Jewish Insider’s Limited Liability podcast, joins the show to talk about economic sanctions and financial warfare. Lees meer
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• 01:30 Introduction
• 08:19 The Dollar Is Still King
• 10:10 Access Is Everything
• 13:00 Whom Do Sanctions Effect
• 15:42 Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears A Crown
• 21:50 Warfare By Other Means
• 30:20 Working With Allies
• 38:33 Exquisite Calibration
• 43:42 Usurping The Power Of The Dollar
• 49:02 Integrated Deterrence
• 51:01 The Potency Of Sanctions
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Ep 30: Guy MacLean Rogers on The Jewish Revolt
24 mei 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
Guy MacLean Rogers, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Classical Studies at Wellesley College and author of For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66-74CE, joins the show to talk about the great uprising of the Jewish people against Rome—including moments that resonate to the present day, like the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem and the siege of Masada. Lees meer
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• 02:20 Introduction
• 04:21 The Jewish Revolt In Roman History
• 08:09 Flavius Josephus
• 13:41 Herod the Great
• 22:29 Little Causes, Big Revolt
• 26:40 The Leadership Of Rebellion
• 30:11 Jewish Strategy And Logistics
• 35:03 Vespasian
• 41:04 The Temple
• 50:01 The End of the Sacrificial Cult
• 52:01 Destruction of the Temple
• 56:00 The End Of The Revolt
• 1:01:02 Josephus’ Speeches
• 1:06:13 Could The Jews Have Won?
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Ep 29: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
17 mei 2022 · 48 min
Wesley Morgan, journalist and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley, joins the show to discuss his experiences in the Pech valley, one of Afghanistan’s most contested battlegrounds, and to talk about the U.S. counterinsurgency’s successes and failures. Lees meer
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• 01:25 Illicit Economies
• 04:13 Green Berets And CIA “Lost The Forest For The Trees” In Kunar
• 06:57 Who Is Jim Gant?
• 11:36 Self-Aware Proxy Warriors
• 13:42 Counterinsurgency Styles and Outpost Building
• 20:44 Central Government - Whether They Want It Or Not
• 33:18 Cash For Calm - Paying For Peace
• 37:22 War Winds Down In The Pech
• 41:30 The Afghan House Of Cards Collapses
• 44:13 A Tired Afghan Army With No Good Options
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Ep 28: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
10 mei 2022 · 36 min
Ep 28: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan Lees meer
Wesley Morgan, journalist and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley, joins the show to discuss his experiences in the Pech Valley, one of Afghanistan’s most contested battlegrounds, and to talk about the U.S. counterinsurgency’s successes and failures. This episode is part 1 of 2.
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02:52 Introduction
04:28 From Princeton to The Pech
07:25 The Age Dynamic
09:46 Fighting Styles In Helmand Province
12:42 The Episodic Nature Of Fighting In Afghanistan
13:42 The Terrain Of The Pech Valley
17:11 Seeking Bin Laden In Kunar
18:43 Kafiristan - Daniel Dravot’s Dream
20:27 Special Forces - A Tool For Every Task
24:21 The Role Of Seal Team Six and Delta Force
29:36 Seeking The Enemy
31:23 Who Was The Enemy In The Pech?
33:58 The Timber Mafia
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Ep 27: Fred Kagan on Ukraine II
3 mei 2022 · 57 min
Ep 27: Fred Kagan on Ukraine II Lees meer
Fred Kagan, Senior Fellow and Director of Critical Threats Project at AEI, joins the show to discuss where the war in Ukraine stands, how initial Russian designs failed, and where the conflict is headed.
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02:14 Introduction
03:22 Accurate Predictions
06:45 The Baffling Russian Attack on Kyiv
08:36 A River Runs Through…The Russian Plan
10:22 Operational Design 101
13:22 Back To Basics - Reading Terrain Still Matters
16:33 Russian Objectives In The East
21:51 Russian Command And Control
26:29 Ukrainian Strikes On Senior Russian Officers
28:38 Russian Objectives In The South
33:06 Putin Still Seeking Total Victory?
36:42 Russian Game-plan For The South Coast
39:18 Transnistria
42:27 False Flags - Putin’s Comfort Zone
44:01 Moldovan Capabilities
47:46 Force Is A Kind Of Failure
50:47 Putin’s Options
54:48 Deterrence And Nuclear Taboos
Ukraine Maps 05/02/2022 per ISW
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Ep 26: Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War
26 april 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Ep 26: Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War Lees meer
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College, joins the show to discuss the Crimean War, including why it shouldn’t have been called by that name. Professor Lambert also explains the relevance of the Crimean War to today’s war in Ukraine.
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• 01:28 Introduction
• 02:20 Causes of the Crimean War
• 07:57 Flashpoint in the Holy Land
• 12:31 Steamships and Strategy
• 16:34 Functional Dysfunction in Policymaking
• 21:44 Why Target Sevastopol?
• 26:44 What Went Wrong
• 31:47 The Press and Public Opinion
• 36:31 Reading Events Incorrectly
• 38:57 The Baltic Campaign
• 45:30 Mahan and Corbett Interpret the War
• 48:39 Ukraine War - An Echo of the Crimean War
• 55:34 Can Russia Re-Integrate Into The Global Community?
• 58:32 Will Putin Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons?
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Ep. 25: Waller Newell on Putin and Tyranny
12 april 2022 · 45 min
Waller Newell, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Carleton University, joins the show to discuss tyranny and tyrants—and Vladimir Putin in particular. Lees meer
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02:05 Introduction
03:43 Let's talk about Vladimir Putin
05:40 What is the Russian "Soul"?
07:19 Quote from "The Russian Idea"
08:40 Who was Nikolai Berdyaev?
09:54 Is Berdyaev an influence on Aleksandr Dugin?
11:05 The West has a hard time understanding non-economic motivations. Why?
13:06 Who is Aleksandr Dugin?
15:21 “Eurasian Nationalist Bolshevism”
16:55 Rehabilitating Stalin
18:40 Are we seeing a perpetuation of Tsarist Russia?
20:40 What is fascism?
22:35 The many types of tyranny
25:12 What kind of tyrant is Putin?
26:50 Why has millenarian tyranny appeared so relatively recently in history?
29:51 The relationship between liberalism and millenarian tyranny
31:25 The next ten years in Russia
34:00 Did Putin know what he was getting himself into in Ukraine?
35:36 The prospect of Russian and Chinese collaboration in the future
36:55 Who drives Chinese policy - Xi Jinping or the Chinese Communist Party?
38:56 Staying sane while studying tyrants
42:10 What should we be reading to better recognize hostile actors for what they are?
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Ep. 24: Richard Overy on World War II
5 april 2022 · 39 min
Richard Overy, professor of history at the University of Exeter, joins the show to discuss World War II and the wars of imperial aggression. Lees meer
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02:23 - Introduction
04:24 - Imperialism prior to World War II
06:00 - Nations as empires
08:32 -Traditional imperialism versus the Axis Powers' concept
11:02 - Who is Halford Mackinder?
13:14 - The development of Germany's vision of empire
14:36 - German war aims in World War I and World War II
17:02 - Germany and the East
22:16 - The Japanese vision of empire
25:01 - How Japan modernization
26:33 - Japan's methods of rule
27:50 - American and the USSR
34:06 - World War II book recommendations
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Ep. 23: James Holmes on Sea Power
29 maart 2022 · 42 min
James Holmes, the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, joins the show to discuss sea power, the war in Ukraine, and the possibility of war in the Pacific
Times Lees meer00:58 - Introduction
01:57 - Time spent considering Russia and the NATO alliance’s naval power
04:05 - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy
05:35 - What does Ukraine mean to Putin?
06:58 - The Crimean War
10:32 - Closing the Bosporus
16:15 - Does the war end well for Putin?
21:28 - Zelensky’s survival
23:12 - Worst-case scenario for Putin
25:43 - What the outcome in Ukraine will mean for Taiwan
28:35 - China’s challenge in Taiwan
31:02 - How security concerns in the early American Republic influence China’s thinking
35:25 - Should the United States shift national security focus to Asia?
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Ep. 22: Jeremy Black on Tank Warfare
23 maart 2022 · 49 min
Jeremy Black, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, joins the show to discuss tank warfare from its origins to the battlefields of Ukraine Lees meer
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01:13 - Introduction
02:02 - The creation of the tank
07:48 - Parallel technological development of tanks and aircraft
14:20 - Developing thoughts on employing tanks leading into World War II
18:24 - Blitzkrieg and the role of armored vehicles, speed, and communication during invasions
24:13 - The Soviet Union's invasion of Finland
28:07 - The development of armored technology during the Arab-Israeli wars after World War II
35:06 - Russia's strategy for invasion, the likelihood of Putin overtaking Ukraine, and the future of the tank
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Ep. 21: Matthew Kroenig on Ukraine and Putin’s Nuclear Weapons
16 maart 2022 · 37 min
Matthew Kroenig, Professor in the Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Director of Studies at the Atlantic Council, joins the show to discuss Russian nuclear doctrine and what it means for the war in Ukraine. Lees meer
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00:49 - Introduction
01:07 - Forecasting Russia's potential gains in Ukraine
02:45 - The nuclear dimension in Ukraine
05:05 - Russian nuclear doctrine: escalate to de-escalate
10:52 - Potential U.S. responses to Russian nuclear strikes on NATO allies
12:54 - Perceptions of nuclear weapons, from the Cold War to now
15:46 - Battlefield nuclear tactics
18:32 - Russian thinking on employing chemical weapons
21:05 - U.S. nuclear weapons policy
25:44 - Scenarios when Russia would use nuclear weapons
27:16 - Putin's rationale and next steps
29:21 - Russian strikes and potential fault lines in Western unity
32:30 - U.S. reliance on Russia's brokerage of a nuclear deal with Iran
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Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine
9 maart 2022 · 55 min
Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine Lees meer
Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the Long War Journal, joins the show to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
01:10 - Introduction
7:32 - Assessing Russian objectives in Ukraine
13:25 - Russian shortfalls
23:12 - Limits on Russian resources
28:37 - Does the lack of preparation hurt Russian troops?
32:21 - No fly zones
38:36 - Escalation scenarios
43:00 - Prospects for insurgency
49:32 - How does this end?
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Ep. 19: Fred Kagan on Ukraine
3 maart 2022 · 45 min
Fred Kagan, Director of Critical Threats Project at AEI, joins the show to discuss the first week of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Lees meer
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00:42 - Introduction
01:40 - The situation at present
06:39 - Nature of original build-up of Russian forces
14:50 - Russian strategic and operational style
17:47 - Lack of political preparation
20:44 - Putin's background
24:22 - Will Russia win?
30:14 - What are Putin's weaknesses?
34:20 - What happens next if Kyiv falls?
39:41 - Impact on American national security
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Ep. 18: Bruce Jones on Seapower
22 februari 2022 · 53 min
Bruce Jones, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, joins the show to discuss seapower. Lees meer
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00:51 - Introduction
01:17 - The importance of seapower today
06:45 - Innovation of container shipping and how that changed the global economy
12:50 - China re-enters the seas
16:54 - China’s security challenges at sea
22:44 - Shallow seas, narrow passages, and massive ships
24:06 - China’s strategic interest in Taiwan
26:10 - China’s alienation of potential allies
29:08 - American strategic view of the Pacific Ocean
34:41 - Relations between the United States and India, specifically in terms of taking on China
39:12 - Seapower theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan
44:55 - Comparing America’s quest for power at sea during the 20th century and China’s return to the sea today
48:48 - The role of oceanography in nation-state power competition
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Ep. 17: Alexander Mikaberidze on Napoleon
15 februari 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, joins the show to discuss the Napoleonic Wars. Lees meer
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01:12 - Introduction
07:38 - How did European attitudes toward Napoleon change over his life?
13:34 - Nuances of nationalist sentiment Napoleon inspired
15:13 - Napoleonic wars, French hegemony, and geopolitics
20:23 - Napoleon's youth and the French Revolution
24:49 - Napoleon's early campaigns and his rise to power
29:16 - What is the Napoleonic way of war?
33:43 - What is Combined Arms and what are its advantages?
37:42 - What is the Eastern Question to Napoleon?
45:55 - How did Napoleon think about the Western Hemisphere?
53:46 - What remains of Napoleon's legacy after the Congress of Vienna?
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Book: The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
8 februari 2022 · 56 min
Is the United States Navy prepared for war? Retired Navy Captain Gerry Roncolato joins the show to discuss the past, present, and future of American maritime power. Lees meer
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02:08 - Introduction
03:31 - Is the U.S. Navy prepared for a great-power war?
04:59 - The Navy during the Interwar Period and the Battle of Guadalcanal
09:41 - The experience of war at sea
16:30 - Historical examples—and lessons for the Navy today—in Roncolato’s article, A Warfighting Imperative: Back to Basics for the Navy
20:49 - Alarming incidents during operations at sea and underlying problems
27:23 - Are the troops adequately prepared for war at sea?
38:20 - Books aspiring officers should read
40:52 - Maneuver warfare at sea
48:20 - Managing troops in the barracks versus maneuvering men in battle
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Roncolato’s article, A Warfighting Imperative: Back to Basics for the Navy
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Ep. 15: Andrew Lambert on Julian Corbett
1 februari 2022 · 58 min
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, joins the show to discuss British strategist Julian Corbett and his vision of seapower at the turn of the 20th century. Lees meer
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01:37 - Introduction
02:02 - The British Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries
04:43 - Corbett as a lawyer, novelist, and strategist
09:05 - The Boer War and the future of the British Empire
13:26 - Corbett’s education on the principals of British power
16:12 - Britain’s power on land versus at sea
19:04 - British power in the Mediterranean
22:30 - How Corbett differentiates himself from Alfred Mahan
28:14 - The principles at the core of Corbett’s strategy
35: 56 - Maritime strategy throughout history
37:29 - An argument for a continental strategy
41:28 - What Corbett envisioned during World War I
51:43 - How Corbett’s ideas apply to British and American military strategy today
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Ep. 14: Kevin Hymel on General George S. Patton
25 januari 2022 · 59 min
Historian Kevin Hymel joins the show to discuss the life and leadership of the American World War II general most feared by the Nazis: George S. Patton. Lees meer
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01:48 - Introduction
04:38 - Recently uncovered details about General Patton
08:38 - History’s first draft
10:51 - How Patton became one of the most famous World War II leaders
13:35 - Patton before the war
17:34 - Patton in North Africa
23:08 - Problems with General Dwight D. Eisenhower
26:55 - Patton’s leadership style
28:20 - Fighting in Tunisia
32:49 - Patton’s risk calculations
34:16 - Patton’s behavior, temperament, and treatment of other officers
43:05 - The Civil War and Patton’s strategy in North Africa
45:00 - Patton’s role in Sicily
49:49 - Shell shock and Patton's anti-Semitism
55:21 - Sicily and combat stress
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Ep. 13: Thomas Clavin on Joe Moser
18 januari 2022 · 37 min
Journalist and author Thomas Clavin joins the show to discuss the harrowing journey of Joe Moser, an American fighter pilot during World War II and the subject of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival. Lees meer
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01:41 - Introduction
03:33 - Why a book on Joe Moser
09:44 - The Lockheed P-38 Lightning
11:09 - August 13, 1944
13:48 - Nazis send Moser to Buchenwald
15:44 - Buchenwald and the concentration camp system
17:48 - Karl-Otto and Ilse Koch
19:36 - Life at Buchenwald
21:34 - Colonel Phil Lamason
23:00 - Hannes Trautloft and Moser’s survival
27:27 - Leaving Buchenwald
31:47 - Joe after the war
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Ep. 12: Hal Brands on the Cold War
11 januari 2022 · 50 min
Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, joins the show to discuss the Cold War's lessons for great-power rivalry today. Lees meer
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01:24 - Introduction
02:47 - Halford Mackinder and how Eurasian geopolitics framed the Cold War
05:37 - Mackinder's theory of the heartland
07:47 - China's Belt and Road Initiative as an application of Mackinder's theory
09:07 - Comparing the United States' approaches to the USSR and China
13:04 - Nuclear power during the Cold War
17:24 - How Cold War-era nuclear logic applies today
21:02 - No first use policy
26:56 - The Nixon administration's critique of containment strategy
29:58 - The collapse of the Soviet Union
32:15 - Theories of victory that led to the Vietnam War
35:08 - End of the Cold War
39:17 - Infrastructure needed to fight the Soviets in the United States, and what the U.S. needs to take on China today
44:02 - China's moves to decouple economically from the United States
46:47 - The United States' harrowing responsibility to take on adversarial powers
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Ep. 11: John Matteson on the Civil War's Cultural Impact
4 januari 2022 · 45 min
John Matteson, Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins the show to discuss how the Civil War—and in particular the fall of 1862—left its mark on the nation's culture and on some of its most famous citizens. Lees meer
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01:25 - Introduction
03:28 - Fall of 1862
09:19 - Matteson's selection of Americans included in A Worse Place Than Hell
12:17 - Oliver Wendell Holmes and the 20th Massachusetts
16:13 - John Pelham
18:23 - Holmes, Pelham, and the battle of Antietam
23:56 - Holmes, Pelham, and the battle of Fredericksburg
27:23 - Valor and luck in battle
30:22 - The 20th Massachusetts in the battle of Fredericksburg
36:38 - Walt Whitman
40:17 - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Recorded December 7, 2021
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Ep. 10: Shane Brennan on Xenophon
21 december 2021 · 33 min
Shane Brennan, associate professor of history at the American University in Dubai, joins the show to discuss the new Landmark edition of Xenophon's Anabasis, which he co-edits. The Anabasis, long unjustly neglected, is Xenophon's classic memoir of war and command in the lands which today constitute Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Lees meer
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01:26 - Introduction
05:07 - Who was Xenophon
06:09 - Late 5th century Athens
09:07 - Prince Cyrus of Persia
12:17 - The Greek's position and Xenophon's rise to leadership
16:46 - The army's path though Syria, Iraq and Turkey
20:42 - The end of Xenophon's expedition
23:42 - Xenophon's lessons for military leadership today
27:40 - Importance of Xenophon's work
Recorded December 9, 2021
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Ep. 9: David Stahel on the Eastern Front in WWII
14 december 2021 · 48 min
Biography
David Stahel is a senior lecturer of history at the University of New South Wales in Australia. His research focuses on European military history, specifically Nazi-Soviet warfare from 1941-1945. Stahel is the author of several books, including his latest, Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942. Lees meerTimes
01:29 - Introduction
06:33 - Germany sends troops into the Soviet Union, summer 1941
12:24 - Flaws in Germany's plan
14:50 - "Cauldron" battle
22:10 - Culpability of German soldiers for atrocities during Operation Barbarossa
26:55 - Germans cede land to the Soviet Union, winter 1941-1942
29:38 - German's defensive position and strategy during the winter
39:11 - Ideology and military strategy
45:20 - Applicable lessons to strategists today
Recorded on November 23, 2021
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Ep. 8: H.W. Brands on the Patriots and the Loyalists
7 december 2021 · 32 min
Biography
H.W, Brands is the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his doctorate in history. He is the author of thirty books, including two which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize: The First American and Traitor to His Class. His latest book, released November 9, is Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution. Lees meerTimes
01:51- Introduction
07:36 - The sidelining of the Loyalists in American history and memory
12:53 - Individual decisions in the context of the Revolutionary War
18:42 - The Indian population and Joseph Brant
23:20 - The decision to rebel
Recorded on November 9, 2021
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Ep. 7: John McManus on the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II
30 november 2021 · 45 min
Biography
John McManus is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of U.S. military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. McManus completed his doctorate in military history at the University of Tennessee and is the author of more than a dozen books. His latest, Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944, is the second installment of a trilogy detailing the U.S. Army's role in the Pacific theater during World War II. Lees meerTimes
01:12 - Introduction
03:38 - Misperceptions of the Army and Marines in Guadalcanal
08:44 - The Army's role in the Pacific
12:46 - Geography of the Pacific and dividing the theater between General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz
18:30 - Island hopping and the turning point in the Pacific theater
22:26 - The infantry's experience in combat
23:52 - The Pearl Harbor Conference and the endgame of war in the Pacific
31:55 - General Joseph Stilwell and China
38:39 - Prisoners of War in Japan
41:32 - The legacy of the War in the Pacific
Recorded November 23, 2021
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