240 Episodes

  1. Ep 158: Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal on an Economic Strategy for China

    Published: 11/12/2024

  2. Ep 157: Frank Cohn—Veterans Day Special

    Published: 11/8/2024

  3. Ep 156: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Koreans in Russia

    Published: 11/5/2024

  4. Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front

    Published: 10/29/2024

  5. Ep 154: Ben Noon on the U.S.-China Chip Wars

    Published: 10/22/2024

  6. Ep 153: Scott Hartwig on the Battle of Antietam

    Published: 10/18/2024

  7. Ep 152: Jacqueline Deal on China’s Strategy

    Published: 10/15/2024

  8. Ep 151: Nicholas Morton on the Crusades

    Published: 10/11/2024

  9. Ep 150: Katherine Kuzminski on the Draft

    Published: 10/8/2024

  10. Ep 149: Mark Dubowitz on the Iran-Israel War

    Published: 10/1/2024

  11. Ep 148: Alex Miller on Battlefield Technology

    Published: 10/1/2024

  12. Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space

    Published: 9/27/2024

  13. Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis

    Published: 9/24/2024

  14. Ep 145: Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli at War

    Published: 9/20/2024

  15. Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)

    Published: 9/17/2024

  16. Ep 143: Sabin Howard on WWI, Art, and Honoring Veterans

    Published: 9/13/2024

  17. Ep 142: Andrew Roberts Debunks Darryl Cooper on Winston Churchill

    Published: 9/10/2024

  18. Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1)

    Published: 9/3/2024

  19. Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength

    Published: 8/27/2024

  20. Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM

    Published: 8/20/2024

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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