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 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 the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 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

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Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd 2024-03-19
Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11) 2024-03-12
Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence 2024-03-05
Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101 2024-02-27
Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East 2024-02-20
Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment 2024-02-13
Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy 2024-02-06
Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air 2024-01-30
Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air 2024-01-23
Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War 2024-01-16
Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics 2024-01-09
Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military 2024-01-02
Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony 2023-12-19
Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East 2023-12-12
Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction 2023-12-05
Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon 2023-11-28
Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions 2023-11-21
Ep 98: Matthew Waxman on the Israel, Hamas, and the Law of Armed Conflict 2023-11-14
Ep 97: Edward Luttwak on the IDF and the War in Israel 2023-11-07
Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night 2023-10-31
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