247 Episodes

  1. Ep 244: Oren Cass on a Strategy of Reciprocity

    Published: 04/11/2025

  2. Ep 243: Alexander Mikaberidze on Russia’s Failed Battle with Turkey… in 1809

    Published: 31/10/2025

  3. Ep 243: Joshua S. Treviño—Is Trump After Regime Change in Venezuela?

    Published: 28/10/2025

  4. Ep 242: Michael Sobolik on On Donald Trump’s Trade War with China

    Published: 24/10/2025

  5. Ep 241: Julian Jackson on Nazi-Occupied France and Pétain

    Published: 21/10/2025

  6. Ep 240: Lance R. Blyth on Mountain Warfare

    Published: 17/10/2025

  7. Ep 239: Charles C. Mann on How the System Works

    Published: 14/10/2025

  8. Ep 238: James Titterton on Medieval Deception

    Published: 10/10/2025

  9. Ep 237: Toshi Yoshihara on China’s Subversive Strategies

    Published: 07/10/2025

  10. Ep 236: Joshua Rovner on Grand Strategy

    Published: 03/10/2025

  11. Ep 235: Tyler Grey on Serving in Delta Force and the Warrior’s Journey

    Published: 30/09/2025

  12. Ep 234: A. Wess Mitchell on Diplomacy

    Published: 26/09/2025

  13. Ep 233: Mick Ryan on the Ukraine War’s Urgent Lessons

    Published: 23/09/2025

  14. Ep 232: Ran Baratz on the Gaza War and Israel’s ‘Postmodern’ Military

    Published: 19/09/2025

  15. Ep 231: Peter Rough on Russian Drone Incursions into NATO

    Published: 16/09/2025

  16. Ep 230: Prit Buttar on the Great Soviet Offensive of 1944

    Published: 12/09/2025

  17. Ep 229: Nadège Rolland on China’s Borderlands

    Published: 09/09/2025

  18. Ep 228: Brad Bowman and Ryan Brobst on “Axis” Military Cooperation

    Published: 07/09/2025

  19. Ep 227: Yaakov Katz on What Went Wrong on 10/7

    Published: 02/09/2025

  20. Ep 226: Geoffrey Wawro on the Vietnam War

    Published: 29/08/2025

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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. Visit our Substack for episode transcripts Follow along on Instagram

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