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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 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an important military commander or political leader.
Aaron MacLean is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor and legislative director to Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and spent seven years in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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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 relationships between America’s major antagonists.
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• 01:47 Introduction
• 02:40 Axis cooperation
• 08:02 Interoperability
• 11:19 Fighting all three
• 14:49 Potential
• 20:57 The arsenal
• 26:56 Progress
• 28:30 Budgeting
• 36:10 Will and capability
• 39:03 Harpoon Coastal Defense System
• 41:31 Per unit cost over speed
• 44:25 Buy-side issue
• 47:49 Production lessons
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Yaakov Katz, senior fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute and author of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, joins the show to discuss Israel’s intelligence and military failures on the night of 6-7 October, 2023.
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• 01:35 Introduction
• 02:47 Foundational facts
• 09:45 Communication failure
• 17:39 Minority reports
• 25:40 Left alone
• 30:15 Accountability
• 39:37 Cultural costs
• 47:30 A deal
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Geoffrey Wawro, founding director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas and author of The Vietnam War: A Military History, joins the show to discuss the causes of U.S. failure in Vietnam.
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• 01:21 Introduction
• 01:50 Schools of thought
• 07:45 Orthodoxy
• 13:24 A war of choice
• 17:49 Ambivalence
• 20:15 Korean nightmare
• 23:53 Lessons
• 28:38 Policy makers
• 32:34 Obvious flaws
• 37:10 Ground war
• 42:21 South Vietnam
• 51:30 Certain defeat
• 56:21 Local politics
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Major Geoff Ball, USMC, co-founder of the Connecting File, commanded Company G, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines during the evacuation at Kabul International Airport in 2021, including the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate on 26 August. He shares the story of his company and their extraordinary service in Afghanistan.
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• 01:51 Introduction
• 02:03 The Marines
• 08:20 Quantico
• 13:07 29 Palms
• 16:32 On the job training
• 21:54 Ghost Company
• 26:44 The call
• 32:10 Isolation
• 38:30 Abbey Gate
• 46:16 Unity of effort
• 48:53 Who got through
• 51:40 The Taliban
• 52:54 26 August
• 56:52 Take command
• 59:47 No good choices
• 01:06:42 The Fallen
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Barry Strauss, Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, joins the show to discuss the long, fractious, often violent relationship between Ancient Rome and her Jewish subjects.
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• 01:11 Introduction
• 01:37 Rome and Parthia
• 07:50 Judea
• 12:07 Roman control
• 17:58 Jewish warfighting
• 20:20 Herod
• 26:03 The Great Revolt
• 31:06 Enter Parthia
• 33:23 The Temple
• 35:01 70 years
• 40:24 Driven out
• 42:02 Parallels with today
• 44:33 Donald Kagan
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Major General Mick Ryan, Australian Army (retired), Senior Fellow for Military Studies the Lowy Institute and author of the Futura Doctrina Substack, joins the show to break down the latest on Ukraine, from the battlefield to the White House.
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• 01:05 Introduction
• 02:06 The front
• 06:23 Fortress belt
• 08:38 ROI
• 10:55 Shifting feelings
• 14:41 A realistic settlement
• 20:53 After Alaska
• 23:15 Boots on the ground
• 25:45 Unpredictability
• 28:49 A different vibe
• 31:31 Stop the killing
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1Colonel Peter Mansoor, U.S. Army (retired), General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History at The Ohio State University and authors of Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines, joins the show to discuss the largest campaign of the Pacific War, the liberation of the Philippines.
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• 01:08 Introduction
• 01:30 Why West Point?
• 06:11 Petraeus
• 09:55 A huge scale
• 11:25 War Plan Orange
• 16:25 Inevitable
• 20:07 The guerrilla war
• 26:53 Mindanao & Luzon
• 31:33 Leyte Gulf
• 37:52 A do or die campaign
• 40:04 Manila
• 44:34 Command responsibility
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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 discuss the origins, organization, and strategic outlook of China’s military.
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• 01:22 Introduction
• 01:57 Origins
• 06:58 Crisis control
• 08:48 PLA structure
• 13:05 1960
• 20:17 Horizontal escalation
• 24:34 By land or sea
• 28:23 American resolve
• 30:54 Xi
• 36:41 A lack of experience
• 44:10 Military diplomacy
• 48:17 Reading list
• 50:43 Be unpredictable
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Marc LiVecche, McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence and author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury, joins the show to discuss Just War Theory and whether the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fit in that framework.
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• 01:23 Introduction
• 01:30 Misspent youth
• 07:51 Moral injury
• 13:27 Conflicting views
• 19:15 Richard Frank
• 28:53 Right not moral
• 39:12 Not the same
• 40:36 Gifts from heaven
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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. Special Forces in World War II, joins the show to discuss the incredible life of Evans Carlson.
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• 01:48 Introduction
• 02:50 American quirk
• 08:14 China
• 10:18 Soviet policy
• 14:01 Nicaragua
• 16:29 Edgar Snow
• 21:11 FDR
• 24:42 8th Route Army
• 31:52 Embargo
• 38:30 Raiders
• 42:40 Makin Island
• 46:30 Force multiplier
• 52:44 1946
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Lawerence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London and author of ‘The Age of Forever Wars’ in Foreign Affairs Magazine, joins the show to discuss why protracted warfare seems to be a mark of the era.
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• 01:32 Introduction
• 02:01 Aligning strategy
• 04:37 Mass
• 07:14 Iraq and Afghanistan
• 11:14 Al Qaeda
• 14:25 Survive
• 17:50 Results matter
• 22:04 Trade-offs
• 27:23 Avoiding mistakes
• 32:13 Why does Putin continue?
• 38:29 Concessions
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Steven Rabalais, litigator and author of General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor, joins the show to discuss the extraordinary influence of now-forgotten General Fox Connor on the outcome of WWI and Eisenhower’s career.
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• 01:51 Introduction
• 03:10 Growing up with history
• 05:47 A southern story
• 07:44 West Point struggles
• 12:07 A reader
• 14:50 Coastal artillery
• 20:46 Rocks and airplanes
• 23:51 Mechanism of victory
• 27:54 WWI logistics
• 32:47 Summer 1918
• 46:03 Eisenhower
• 51:24 Panama
• 01:01:58 Foreshadowing
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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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• 01:36 Introduction
• 02:35 A navy family
• 05:51 Regulus
• 08:05 American made
• 10:45 155
• 14:44 Integration
• 16:53 Supply chains
• 23:20 Demand
• 28:27 Flexibility
• 31:40 Forging vs casting
• 33:45 UNION
• 37:27 Customers
• 40:07 Mindset
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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 experiences.
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• 01:13 Introduction
• 01:55 Seeking purpose
• 04:11 West Point
• 06:48 9/11
• 08:41 3rd Infantry Division
• 10:12 Platoon tactics
• 14:51 “Crossing tonight”
• 18:08 Preparing for combat
• 23:40 Tired
• 29:37 Baghdad
• 35:51 Thunder Runs
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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 with China could play out.
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• 01:51 Introduction
• 02:00 Submariner
• 10:10 Environmental conditions
• 12:40 State of play
• 20:04 Complacency
• 23:36 Hellscape
• 32:14 Cultural differences
• 37:20 Party control
• 43:40 Degraded environment
• 48:02 Practice now
• 51:45 Deterrence
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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 the turbulent age of the English Civil War, Cromwell, and the Protectorate.
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• 01:45 Introduction
• 02:00 17th century
• 03:51 The Thirty Years War
• 12:40 Anti-Catholicism
• 15:24 Underlying causes
• 21:46 Cromwell
• 30:34 Thatcher
• 33:04 The Rump Parliament
• 37:07 Western Design
• 54:44 Reverberations
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Arnold Punaro, retired USMC Major General and author of If Confirmed: An Insider's View of the National Security Confirmation Process, joins the show to talk about his infantry service in Vietnam and his experiences serving in Washington DC.
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• 01:35 Introduction
• 05:40 5 weeks
• 10:51 Officer training
• 13:18 3/7
• 16:37 Jungle fighting
• 23:25 Wounded
• 31:32 Payback
• 36:35 Bad situation
• 40:10 Getting home
• 45:46 The Senate
• 49:28 Getting the facts
• 54:00 Service
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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 the show to breakdown the origins of the important, if at times contentious, U.S.-Israel relationship.
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• 01:30 Introduction
• 02:28 1948
• 05:44 Arabist strategy
• 08:13 11 minutes
• 10:37 Looking for friends
• 15:40 Soviet-Arab relations
• 19:25 Republicans
• 25:16 Kennedy
• 29:29 Strong friends
• 32:02 Nuclear program
• 37:33 6 Day War
• 43:19 Mistake?
• 47:41 Kissinger
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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 Tzu.
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• 01:48 Introduction
• 02:10 “Know your enemy”
• 05:18 The Protracted Game
• 09:59 Text and application
• 16:05 Warring states
• 21:14 Chinese thinking
• 24:58 Net assessment
• 29:05 Cunning
• 32:02 Omissions
• 37:05 Memorization
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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 come with the Israel-Iran ceasefire in place.
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• 01:27 Introduction
• 02:10 Extraction
• 05:50 Different
• 09:25 In the shelter
• 12:03 Damage taken
• 16:18 Stress
• 17:45 Getting out
• 24:57 Road ahead
• 30:40 Iranian risks
• 32:10 Hamas
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