240 Episodes

  1. Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?

    Published: 4/9/2024

  2. Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War

    Published: 4/2/2024

  3. Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals

    Published: 3/26/2024

  4. Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd

    Published: 3/19/2024

  5. Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11)

    Published: 3/12/2024

  6. Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence

    Published: 3/5/2024

  7. Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101

    Published: 2/27/2024

  8. Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East

    Published: 2/20/2024

  9. Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment

    Published: 2/13/2024

  10. Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy

    Published: 2/6/2024

  11. Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air

    Published: 1/30/2024

  12. Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air

    Published: 1/23/2024

  13. Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War

    Published: 1/16/2024

  14. Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics

    Published: 1/9/2024

  15. Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military

    Published: 1/2/2024

  16. Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony

    Published: 12/19/2023

  17. Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East

    Published: 12/12/2023

  18. Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction

    Published: 12/5/2023

  19. Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

    Published: 11/28/2023

  20. Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions

    Published: 11/21/2023

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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