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John
Apr 26, 2025
Great podcast with a sober take on American defense challenges
Tom Thumb
Aug 29, 2024
if you see the world through MAGA tinted glasses, think Reagen is a god or get aroused by the thought of bombing another country than this podcast is for you
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Ep 196: Thomas Bruscino and Mitchell G. Klingenberg on Mapping Warfare
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May 09, 2025 |
Ep 195: John Hillen on Strategic Thinking
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May 06, 2025 |
Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War
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May 02, 2025 |
Ep 193: Douglas Murray on Israel’s War and its Global Consequences
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Apr 29, 2025 |
Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
Ep 191: Mark Dubowitz on Iran and the Trump Administration
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Apr 22, 2025 |
Ep 190: Michael Doran on “Restraint” and the Middle East
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Apr 15, 2025 |
Ep 189: Andrew Roberts on October 7th and Antisemitism
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Apr 11, 2025 |
Ep 188: Jonathan Horn on MacArthur and the Battle for the Philippines
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Apr 08, 2025 |
Ep 187: Richard Fontaine on the “Reverse Kissinger”
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Apr 01, 2025 |
Ep 186: Walter Russell Mead on Trump, Strategy, and Mercantilism
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Mar 25, 2025 |
Ep 185: Lara Burns on the Hamas Threat in America
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Mar 18, 2025 |
Ep 184: Alexander Burns on the Dawn of the Modern Battlefield
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Mar 14, 2025 |
Ep 183: Tom Cotton on China
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Mar 11, 2025 |
Ep 182: Sean McMeekin on Communism
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Mar 04, 2025 |
Ep 181: Michael Cook on the Islamic Conquests
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Feb 28, 2025 |
Ep 180: Stephen Kotkin on Endgames in Ukraine
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Feb 25, 2025 |
Ep 179: Phillips O’Brien on Grand Strategy in WW2
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Feb 21, 2025 |
Ep 178: Mark Montgomery on Cyber War
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Feb 18, 2025 |
Ep 177: Christopher Kolakowski on Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
Ep 176: David Betz on Modern Fortification
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Feb 11, 2025 |
Ep 175: Mick Ryan on War & Fiction
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Feb 07, 2025 |
Ep 174: Hal Brands on the Long Struggle for Eurasia
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Feb 04, 2025 |
Ep 173: Tom Karako on America’s Iron Dome
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Jan 31, 2025 |
Ep 172: Eric Chewning and Tom Moore on the Warship Production Crisis
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Jan 28, 2025 |
Ep 171: I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy
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Jan 24, 2025 |
Ep 170: Evan Mawdsley on WW2 in the Central Pacific
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Jan 21, 2025 |
Ep 169: Dmitry Filipoff on Naval Warfare in 2025
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Jan 14, 2025 |
Ep 168: Nadège Rolland on China’s Vision of Strategic Space
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Jan 07, 2025 |
Ep 167: Dan Blumenthal and Kyle Balzer on China’s Nuclear Buildup
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Dec 24, 2024 |
Ep 166: Rachel Kousser on Alexander the Great
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Dec 20, 2024 |
Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation
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Dec 17, 2024 |
Ep 164: Mark Dubowitz on Syria’s Collapse
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Dec 11, 2024 |
Ep 163: School of War Goes to Israel—Lessons from a Savage Year
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Dec 10, 2024 |
Ep 162: Michael Leggiere on Military History on Campus
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Dec 06, 2024 |
Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours
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Dec 03, 2024 |
Ep 160: Thomas Barfield on Empire and Imperial Strategies Today
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Nov 26, 2024 |
Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
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Nov 19, 2024 |
Ep 158: Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal on an Economic Strategy for China
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Nov 12, 2024 |
Ep 157: Frank Cohn—Veterans Day Special
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Nov 08, 2024 |
Ep 156: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Koreans in Russia
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Nov 05, 2024 |
Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front
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Oct 29, 2024 |
Ep 154: Ben Noon on the U.S.-China Chip Wars
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Oct 22, 2024 |
Ep 153: Scott Hartwig on the Battle of Antietam
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Ep 152: Jacqueline Deal on China’s Strategy
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Oct 15, 2024 |
Ep 151: Nicholas Morton on the Crusades
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Oct 11, 2024 |
Ep 150: Katherine Kuzminski on the Draft
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Oct 08, 2024 |
Ep 149: Mark Dubowitz on the Iran-Israel War
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Oct 01, 2024 |
Ep 148: Alex Miller on Battlefield Technology
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Oct 01, 2024 |
Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space
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Sep 27, 2024 |
Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis
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Sep 24, 2024 |
Ep 145: Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli at War
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Sep 20, 2024 |
Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
Ep 143: Sabin Howard on WWI, Art, and Honoring Veterans
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Sep 13, 2024 |
Ep 142: Andrew Roberts Debunks Darryl Cooper on Winston Churchill
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Sep 10, 2024 |
Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength
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Aug 27, 2024 |
Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM
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Aug 20, 2024 |
Ep 138: Joshua S. Treviño on the Southern Border Crisis
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Aug 13, 2024 |
Ep 137: Richard Frank on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and World War II’s Endgame
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Aug 06, 2024 |
Ep 136: Ronald C. White on Joshua Chamberlain
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Aug 02, 2024 |
Ep 135: Rich Goldberg on Israel‘s Northern Crisis
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Jul 30, 2024 |
Ep 134: Michael Sobolik on China’s Geostrategy
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Jul 23, 2024 |
Ep 133: James Holland on World War II in Italy, 1943
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Jul 19, 2024 |
Ep 132: Michael Kofman on the Battlefield in Ukraine (War in Ukraine #4)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
Ep 131: Thomas Mahnken on Strategic Fallacies (War in Ukraine #3)
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Jul 09, 2024 |
Ep 130: John Spencer on Israel’s Unprecedented War (or, Urban Warfare 101)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
Ep 129: Frank Gavin on Nuclear Strategy and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #2)
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Jun 25, 2024 |
Ep 128: Stephen Kotkin on Russia and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #1)
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Ep 127: Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine on the Failed Pivot to Asia
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Jun 11, 2024 |
Ep 126: Michel Paradis on D-Day and Eisenhower
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Jun 04, 2024 |
Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War
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May 28, 2024 |
Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership
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May 21, 2024 |
Ep 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold War
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May 14, 2024 |
Ep 122: Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger on a Victory Strategy for China
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May 07, 2024 |
Ep 121: Andy Lowery on Drones and Directed Energy
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Apr 30, 2024 |
Ep 120: Iskander Rehman on the Emperor Tiberius and American Primacy
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Ep 119: Yaroslav Trofimov on the War in Ukraine
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Apr 16, 2024 |
Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War
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Apr 02, 2024 |
Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd
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Mar 19, 2024 |
Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence
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Mar 05, 2024 |
Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101
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Feb 27, 2024 |
Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East
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Feb 20, 2024 |
Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment
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Feb 13, 2024 |
Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy
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Feb 06, 2024 |
Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air
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Jan 30, 2024 |
Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air
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Jan 23, 2024 |
Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War
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Jan 16, 2024 |
Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military
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Jan 02, 2024 |
Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction
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Dec 05, 2023 |
Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Ep 98: Matthew Waxman on the Israel, Hamas, and the Law of Armed Conflict
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Ep 97: Edward Luttwak on the IDF and the War in Israel
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night
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Oct 31, 2023 |
Ep 95: Richard Goldberg on the War in Israel & American Strategy
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Ep 94: Jonathan Schanzer on the War in Israel & Hamas
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Oct 17, 2023 |
Ep 93: Michael Doran on the War in Israel & Ghosts of 1973
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Ep 92: Cliff May on Defending Democracies
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Oct 03, 2023 |
Ep 91: Paul Rahe on Sparta’s Grand Strategy
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Ep 90: Andrew Krepinevich on Military Revolutions
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Sep 19, 2023 |
Ep 89: Mick Ryan on Ukraine, Taiwan, and Future War
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Ep 88: John H. Maurer on Alfred Thayer Mahan (New Makers of Modern Strategy #10)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare
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Aug 29, 2023 |
Ep 86: David Betz on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Russia’s Defense
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Ep 85: Antulio J. Echevarria on Jomini (New Makers of Modern Strategy #9)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Ep 84: Mike Gallagher on the Korean War and Confronting China Today
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Ep 84: B. Rivera and M. McGrath on John Boyd
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Aug 01, 2023 |
Ep 83: Aaron O’Connell on 'Geopolitics 101'
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Ep 82: Charles Edel on John Quincy Adams (New Makers of Modern Strategy #8)
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Jul 18, 2023 |
Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Jul 11, 2023 |
Ep 80: Holger Afflerbach on How Germany Lost WWI
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Jul 04, 2023 |
Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military
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Jun 27, 2023 |
Ep 78: Hew Strachan on Clausewitz (New Makers of Modern Strategy #7)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
Ep 77: Iskander Rehman on Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin (New Makers of Modern Strategy #6)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
Ep 76: Levi Roach on the Normans
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Jun 06, 2023 |
Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
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May 30, 2023 |
Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
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May 23, 2023 |
Ep 73: Carter Malkasian on Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency (New Makers of Modern Strategy #3)
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May 16, 2023 |
Ep 72: Matthew Kroenig on Machiavelli (New Makers of Modern Strategy #2)
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May 09, 2023 |
Ep 71: John Gaddis on Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #1)
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May 02, 2023 |
Ep 70: Will Scharf on China’s Fentanyl War on America
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Apr 25, 2023 |
Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"
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Apr 18, 2023 |
Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples
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Apr 11, 2023 |
Ep 67: Stephen J. Hadley on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
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Apr 04, 2023 |
Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy
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Mar 28, 2023 |
Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem
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Mar 21, 2023 |
Ep 64: Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan on China’s Three Strategies for Taiwan
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Mar 14, 2023 |
Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
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Feb 28, 2023 |
Ep 62: Mike Pompeo on American Foreign Policy
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Feb 21, 2023 |
Ep 61: Sonny Bunch on War Movies
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Feb 14, 2023 |
Ep 60: Marc Hyden on Gaius Marius
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Feb 07, 2023 |
Ep 59: James Lacey on Roman Strategy
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Jan 31, 2023 |
Ep 58: Philip Taubman on George Shultz
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Ep 57: Mike Gallagher on China and the U.S. Military
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Jan 17, 2023 |
Ep 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia
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Jan 10, 2023 |
Ep 55: Myke Cole and the Spartan Myth
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Jan 03, 2023 |
Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism
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Dec 20, 2022 |
Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War
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Dec 13, 2022 |
Ep 52: Dr. Michael Livingston on the battle of Crécy
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Dec 06, 2022 |
Ep 51: Alexander Mikaberidze on Kutuzov
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Nov 29, 2022 |
Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command
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Nov 22, 2022 |
Ep 49: William Inboden on Ronald Reagan
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Nov 15, 2022 |
Ep 48: Ian Beckett on the Anglo-Zulu War
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Nov 08, 2022 |
Ep 47: Senator Tom Cotton on American Foreign Policy
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Ep 46: James M. Scott on Curtis LeMay in World War II
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Oct 25, 2022 |
Ep 45: Randall Schriver on China
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Oct 18, 2022 |
Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff
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Oct 11, 2022 |
Ep 43: Eli Lake on the Bush administration in the Middle East
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Sep 13, 2022 |
Ep 42: Ian Easton on Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Grand Strategy
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Sep 06, 2022 |
Ep 41: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on China
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Aug 30, 2022 |
Ep 40: Michael S. Neiberg on Vichy France
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Aug 09, 2022 |
Ep 39: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
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Aug 02, 2022 |
Ep 38: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
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Jul 26, 2022 |
Ep 37: Alexander Watson on WWI’s Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands
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Jul 19, 2022 |
Ep 36: Charlie Laderman on Hitler’s Decision to Declare War on America
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Jul 12, 2022 |
Ep 35: Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor on the Battle of Midway
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Jun 28, 2022 |
Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
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Jun 21, 2022 |
Ep 33: Steven Pressfield on the Truth about War
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Jun 14, 2022 |
Ep 32: Barry S. Strauss on Actium
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Jun 07, 2022 |
Ep 31: Rich Goldberg on Economic Sanctions and Financial Warfare
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May 31, 2022 |
Ep 30: Guy MacLean Rogers on The Jewish Revolt
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May 24, 2022 |
Ep 29: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
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May 17, 2022 |
Ep 28: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
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May 10, 2022 |
Ep 27: Fred Kagan on Ukraine II
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May 03, 2022 |
Ep 26: Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War
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Apr 26, 2022 |
Ep. 25: Waller Newell on Putin and Tyranny
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Apr 12, 2022 |
Ep. 24: Richard Overy on World War II
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Apr 05, 2022 |
Ep. 23: James Holmes on Sea Power
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Mar 29, 2022 |
Ep. 22: Jeremy Black on Tank Warfare
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Ep. 21: Matthew Kroenig on Ukraine and Putin’s Nuclear Weapons
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Ep. 19: Fred Kagan on Ukraine
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Mar 03, 2022 |
Ep. 18: Bruce Jones on Seapower
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Feb 22, 2022 |
Ep. 17: Alexander Mikaberidze on Napoleon
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Feb 15, 2022 |
Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
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Feb 08, 2022 |
Ep. 15: Andrew Lambert on Julian Corbett
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Feb 01, 2022 |
Ep. 14: Kevin Hymel on General George S. Patton
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Jan 25, 2022 |
Ep. 13: Thomas Clavin on Joe Moser
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Jan 18, 2022 |
Ep. 12: Hal Brands on the Cold War
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Jan 11, 2022 |
Ep. 11: John Matteson on the Civil War's Cultural Impact
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Jan 04, 2022 |
Ep. 10: Shane Brennan on Xenophon
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Dec 21, 2021 |
Ep. 9: David Stahel on the Eastern Front in WWII
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Dec 14, 2021 |
Ep. 8: H.W. Brands on the Patriots and the Loyalists
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Dec 07, 2021 |
Ep. 7: John McManus on the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II
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Nov 30, 2021 |
Ep. 6: Frank Ledwidge on Airpower
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Nov 23, 2021 |
Ep. 5: Wayne Hsieh on Robert E. Lee
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Nov 16, 2021 |
Ep. 4: Sean McMeekin on Stalin and World War II
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Nov 09, 2021 |
Ep. 3: Andrew Roberts on King George III
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Nov 02, 2021 |
Ep. 2: Daniel Bolger on Maurice Rose
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Oct 26, 2021 |
Ep. 1: H.R. McMaster on the Gulf War
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Oct 19, 2021 |
Trailer
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Oct 06, 2021 |