240 Episodes

  1. Ep 98: Matthew Waxman on the Israel, Hamas, and the Law of Armed Conflict

    Published: 11/14/2023

  2. Ep 97: Edward Luttwak on the IDF and the War in Israel

    Published: 11/7/2023

  3. Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night

    Published: 10/31/2023

  4. Ep 95: Richard Goldberg on the War in Israel & American Strategy

    Published: 10/24/2023

  5. Ep 94: Jonathan Schanzer on the War in Israel & Hamas

    Published: 10/17/2023

  6. Ep 93: Michael Doran on the War in Israel & Ghosts of 1973

    Published: 10/10/2023

  7. Ep 92: Cliff May on Defending Democracies

    Published: 10/3/2023

  8. Ep 91: Paul Rahe on Sparta’s Grand Strategy

    Published: 9/26/2023

  9. Ep 90: Andrew Krepinevich on Military Revolutions

    Published: 9/19/2023

  10. Ep 89: Mick Ryan on Ukraine, Taiwan, and Future War

    Published: 9/12/2023

  11. Ep 88: John H. Maurer on Alfred Thayer Mahan (New Makers of Modern Strategy #10)

    Published: 9/5/2023

  12. Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare

    Published: 8/29/2023

  13. Ep 86: David Betz on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Russia’s Defense

    Published: 8/22/2023

  14. Ep 85: Antulio J. Echevarria on Jomini (New Makers of Modern Strategy #9)

    Published: 8/15/2023

  15. Ep 84: Mike Gallagher on the Korean War and Confronting China Today

    Published: 8/8/2023

  16. Ep 84: B. Rivera and M. McGrath on John Boyd

    Published: 8/1/2023

  17. Ep 83: Aaron O’Connell on 'Geopolitics 101'

    Published: 7/25/2023

  18. Ep 82: Charles Edel on John Quincy Adams (New Makers of Modern Strategy #8)

    Published: 7/18/2023

  19. Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Published: 7/11/2023

  20. Ep 80: Holger Afflerbach on How Germany Lost WWI

    Published: 7/4/2023

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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