240 Episodes

  1. Ep 238: James Titterton on Medieval Deception

    Published: 10/10/2025

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

    Published: 10/7/2025

  3. Ep 236: Joshua Rovner on Grand Strategy

    Published: 10/3/2025

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

    Published: 9/30/2025

  5. Ep 234: A. Wess Mitchell on Diplomacy

    Published: 9/26/2025

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

    Published: 9/23/2025

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

    Published: 9/19/2025

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

    Published: 9/16/2025

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

    Published: 9/12/2025

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

    Published: 9/9/2025

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

    Published: 9/7/2025

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

    Published: 9/2/2025

  13. Ep 226: Geoffrey Wawro on the Vietnam War

    Published: 8/29/2025

  14. Ep 225: Geoff Ball on the Evacuation of Kabul

    Published: 8/26/2025

  15. Ep 224: Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome’s Wars with Israel

    Published: 8/22/2025

  16. Ep 223: Mick Ryan on Ukraine Negotiations and Fighting

    Published: 8/19/2025

  17. Ep 222: Peter Mansoor on MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines

    Published: 8/15/2025

  18. Ep 221: Joel Wuthnow and Phillip Saunders on China’s PLA

    Published: 8/12/2025

  19. Ep 220: Marc LiVecche on Hiroshima and Morality

    Published: 8/5/2025

  20. Ep 219: Stephen Platt on Mao's China and the Original Marine Raider

    Published: 8/1/2025

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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