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

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Ep 132: Michael Kofman on the Battlefield in Ukraine (War in Ukraine #4) 2024-07-16
Ep 131: Thomas Mahnken on Strategic Fallacies (War in Ukraine #3) 2024-07-09
Ep 130: John Spencer on Israel’s Unprecedented War (or, Urban Warfare 101) 2024-07-02
Ep 129: Frank Gavin on Nuclear Strategy and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #2) 2024-06-25
Ep 128: Stephen Kotkin on Russia and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #1) 2024-06-18
Ep 127: Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine on the Failed Pivot to Asia 2024-06-11
Ep 126: Michel Paradis on D-Day and Eisenhower 2024-06-04
Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War 2024-05-28
Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership 2024-05-21
Ep 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold War 2024-05-14
 Ep 122: Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger on a Victory Strategy for China 2024-05-07
Ep 121: Andy Lowery on Drones and Directed Energy 2024-04-30
Ep 120: Iskander Rehman on the Emperor Tiberius and American Primacy 2024-04-23
Ep 119: Yaroslav Trofimov on the War in Ukraine 2024-04-16
Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning? 2024-04-09
Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War 2024-04-02
Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals 2024-03-26
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
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