240 Episodes

  1. Ep 59: James Lacey on Roman Strategy

    Published: 1/31/2023

  2. Ep 58: Philip Taubman on George Shultz

    Published: 1/24/2023

  3. Ep 57: Mike Gallagher on China and the U.S. Military

    Published: 1/17/2023

  4. Ep 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia

    Published: 1/10/2023

  5. Ep 55: Myke Cole and the Spartan Myth

    Published: 1/3/2023

  6. Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism

    Published: 12/20/2022

  7. Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War

    Published: 12/13/2022

  8. Ep 52: Dr. Michael Livingston on the battle of Crécy

    Published: 12/6/2022

  9. Ep 51: Alexander Mikaberidze on Kutuzov

    Published: 11/29/2022

  10. Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command

    Published: 11/22/2022

  11. Ep 49: William Inboden on Ronald Reagan

    Published: 11/15/2022

  12. Ep 48: Ian Beckett on the Anglo-Zulu War

    Published: 11/8/2022

  13. Ep 47: Senator Tom Cotton on American Foreign Policy

    Published: 11/1/2022

  14. Ep 46: James M. Scott on Curtis LeMay in World War II

    Published: 10/25/2022

  15. Ep 45: Randall Schriver on China

    Published: 10/18/2022

  16. Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff

    Published: 10/11/2022

  17. Ep 43: Eli Lake on the Bush administration in the Middle East

    Published: 9/13/2022

  18. Ep 42: Ian Easton on Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Grand Strategy

    Published: 9/6/2022

  19. Ep 41: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on China

    Published: 8/30/2022

  20. Ep 40: Michael S. Neiberg on Vichy France

    Published: 8/9/2022

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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