School of War
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School of War
This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secre...
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241 episodi
Ep 239: Charles C. Mann on How the System Works
Charles C. Mann, author of “How the System Works” in The New Atlantis, joins the show to discuss the complexity and vulnerability of the hidden proces...
Ep 238: James Titterton on Medieval Deception
James Titterton, historian and author of Deception in Medieval Warfare: Trickery and Cunning in the Central Middle Ages, joins the show to discuss str...
Ep 237: Toshi Yoshihara on China’s Subversive Strategies
Toshi Yoshihara, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and author of Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and th...
Ep 236: Joshua Rovner on Grand Strategy
Joshua Rovner, Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and author of Strategy and Grand Strategy, joins the...
Ep 235: Tyler Grey on Serving in Delta Force and the Warrior’s Journey
Tyler Grey, Delta Force veteran and author of Forged in Chaos: A Warrior's Origin Story, joins the show to discuss his experiences as a member of the...
Ep 234: A. Wess Mitchell on Diplomacy
A. Wess Mitchell, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, historian, and author of Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of...
Ep 233: Mick Ryan on the Ukraine War’s Urgent Lessons
Major General Mick Ryan, Australian Army (retired), Senior Fellow for Military Studies the Lowy Institute and author of the Futura Doctrina substack,...
Ep 232: Ran Baratz on the Gaza War and Israel’s ‘Postmodern’ Military
Ran Baratz, military historian and former senior Israeli official, and author of What's Wrong with the Postmodern Military?, joins the show to discuss...
Ep 231: Peter Rough on Russian Drone Incursions into NATO
Peter Rough, senior fellow and director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute, joins the show to discuss the recent Russian dron...
Ep 230: Prit Buttar on the Great Soviet Offensive of 1944
Prit Buttar, historian and author of Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive, joins the show to discuss the immense Russian campaign that broke the...
Ep 229: Nadège Rolland on China’s Borderlands
Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and principal investigator for the Mapping China's...
Ep 228: Brad Bowman and Ryan Brobst on “Axis” Military Cooperation
Brad Bowman and Ryan Brobst, senior and deputy directors of the Center on Military and Political Power at FDD, join the show to discuss the military r...
Ep 227: Yaakov Katz on What Went Wrong on 10/7
Yaakov Katz, senior fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute and author of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in t...
Ep 226: Geoffrey Wawro on the Vietnam War
Geoffrey Wawro, founding director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas and author of The Vietnam War: A Military History, ...
Ep 225: Geoff Ball on the Evacuation of Kabul
Major Geoff Ball, USMC, co-founder of the Connecting File, commanded Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines during the evacuation at Kabul Internationa...
Ep 224: Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome’s Wars with Israel
Barry Strauss, Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mighties...
Ep 223: Mick Ryan on Ukraine Negotiations and Fighting
Major General Mick Ryan, Australian Army (retired), Senior Fellow for Military Studies the Lowy Institute and author of the Futura Doctrina Substack,...
Ep 222: Peter Mansoor on MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines
Colonel Peter Mansoor, U.S. Army (retired), General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at The Ohio State University and authors of Redempt...
Ep 221: Joel Wuthnow and Phillip Saunders on China’s PLA
Joel Wuthnow and Phillip Saunders, both of the U.S. National Defense University and authors of China's Quest for Military Supremacy, join the show to...
Ep 220: Marc LiVecche on Hiroshima and Morality
Marc LiVecche, McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence and author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury, jo...
Ep 219: Stephen Platt on Mao's China and the Original Marine Raider
Stephen Platt, professor of Chinese history at UMass Amherst and author of The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Spe...
Ep 218: Lawerence Freedman on Endless Wars
Lawerence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London and author of ‘The Age of Forever Wars’ in Foreign Affairs Magazine, j...
Ep 217: Steven Rabalais on Ike’s Mentor
Steven Rabalais, litigator and author of General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor, joins the show to discuss the ex...
Ep 216: Will Somerindyke on Making Munitions in America
Will Somerindyke, Chairman of Regulus Global and CEO of UNION, joins the show to discuss rebuilding the U.S. defense industrial base.
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Ep 215: Ryan McDermott on Invading Iraq in 2003
Ryan McDermott, Army veteran of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and author of Downriver: Memoir of a Warrior Poet, joins the show to talk about his combat...
Ep 214: Bryan Clark on the Coming Sensor War with China
Bryan Clark, senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at Hudson Institute, joins the show to talk about how a war...
Ep 213: Paul Lay on Cromwell and the English Civil War
Paul Lay, Senior Editor of Engelsberg Ideas and author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate,joins the show to talk about t...
Ep 212: Arnold Punaro on Fighting in Vietnam and Washington
Arnold Punaro, retired USMC Major General and author of If Confirmed: An Insider's View of the National Security Confirmation Process, joins the show...
Ep 211: Daniel Samet on the Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Daniel Samet, the George P. Shultz Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute and author of U.S. Defense Policy toward Israel: A Cold War History, joins th...
Ep 210: Scott Boorman on Sun Tzu
Scott Boorman, Professor of Sociology at Yale University and author of Three Faces of Sun Tzu, joins the show to discuss the world and ideas of Sun Tz...
Ep 209: Jonathan Schanzer on the Israel-Iran Ceasefire
Jonathan Schanzer, executive director at FDD, joins the show to break down his time on the ground in Israel at the beginning of the war and what may c...
Ep 208: Mike Doran on America’s Strikes in Iran
Mike Doran, senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute, joins the show to break down A...
Ep 207: Mark Dubowitz on the Israel-Iran War and American Intervention
Mark Dubowitz, CEO of FDD, joins the show to bring us up to speed on the Israel-Iran conflict, and the possibility of America’s intervention.
Ep 206: Cleo Paskal on China’s Central Pacific Strategy
Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior fellow at FDD and author of Crossroads of Competition, joins the show to discuss China’s campaign for influence and c...
Ep 205: Mark Dubowitz on Israel’s Unfolding Campaign in Iran
Mark Dubowitz, CEO of FDD, joins the show to breakdown last night’s spectacular Israeli strikes against the Iranian Regime and its nuclear program, an...
Ep 204: Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen, journalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, joins the show to discuss nuclear weapons and their use.
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Ep 203: Stephen Rabe on the Invasion of Normandy
Stephen Rabe, historian and author of The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village, joins the...
Ep 202: Fred Kagan on Ukraine’s Attack and the Future of War
Fred Kagan, senior fellow and the director of the Critical Threats Project at AEI, joins the show to discuss Ukraine’s drone operation targeting Russi...
Ep 201: Zachary Griffiths & McKinsey Harb on the U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Zachary Griffiths & Maj. McKinsey Harb joined the show to discuss the U.S. Army’s new Field Manual 1, FM 1 -THE ARMY: A PRIMER TO OUR PROFESS...
Ep 200: Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution at 250
Rick Atkinson, historian and author of The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, joins the show to discuss...