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 German Army on the Eastern Front.
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• 01:48 Introduction
• 02:50 A war unto itself
• 08:02 Flanders
• 15:20 Maskirovka
• 24:35 Soviet intelligence
• 28:27 Bolshevism
• 30:22 Lebensraum
• 31:40 Bagration
• 36:14 Cracking the line
• 39:00 Warsaw
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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 Borderlands: Dashboard, joins the show to discuss the shifting visions China has of its frontiers.
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• 01:35 Introduction
• 02:34 What is “China?”
• 10:26 Sovereignty
• 19:30 Double translation
• 25:25 Capillaries
• 34:37 Imperial messaging
• 42:36 Prioritization
We also discuss Nadège’s 2020 report - China's Vision for a New World Order.
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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 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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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 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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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, 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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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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