240 Episodes

  1. Ep 218: Lawerence Freedman on Endless Wars

    Published: 7/29/2025

  2. Ep 217: Steven Rabalais on Ike’s Mentor

    Published: 7/25/2025

  3. Ep 216: Will Somerindyke on Making Munitions in America

    Published: 7/22/2025

  4. Ep 215: Ryan McDermott on Invading Iraq in 2003

    Published: 7/18/2025

  5. Ep 214: Bryan Clark on the Coming Sensor War with China

    Published: 7/15/2025

  6. Ep 213: Paul Lay on Cromwell and the English Civil War

    Published: 7/8/2025

  7. Ep 212: Arnold Punaro on Fighting in Vietnam and Washington

    Published: 7/4/2025

  8. Ep 211: Daniel Samet on the Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship

    Published: 7/1/2025

  9. Ep 210: Scott Boorman on Sun Tzu

    Published: 6/27/2025

  10. Ep 209: Jonathan Schanzer on the Israel-Iran Ceasefire

    Published: 6/24/2025

  11. Ep 208: Mike Doran on America’s Strikes in Iran

    Published: 6/22/2025

  12. Ep 207: Mark Dubowitz on the Israel-Iran War and American Intervention

    Published: 6/20/2025

  13. Ep 206: Cleo Paskal on China’s Central Pacific Strategy

    Published: 6/17/2025

  14. Ep 205: Mark Dubowitz on Israel’s Unfolding Campaign in Iran

    Published: 6/13/2025

  15. Ep 204: Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War

    Published: 6/10/2025

  16. Ep 203: Stephen Rabe on the Invasion of Normandy

    Published: 6/6/2025

  17. Ep 202: Fred Kagan on Ukraine’s Attack and the Future of War

    Published: 6/3/2025

  18. Ep 201: Zachary Griffiths & McKinsey Harb on the U.S. Army

    Published: 5/30/2025

  19. Ep 200: Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution at 250

    Published: 5/27/2025

  20. Ep 199: Jonathan Hackett on Our Failures in Iraq & Afghanistan

    Published: 5/23/2025

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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