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 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia 2023-01-10
Ep 55: Myke Cole and the Spartan Myth 2023-01-03
Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism 2022-12-20
Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War 2022-12-13
Ep 52: Dr. Michael Livingston on the battle of Crécy 2022-12-06
Ep 51: Alexander Mikaberidze on Kutuzov 2022-11-29
Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command 2022-11-22
Ep 49: William Inboden on Ronald Reagan 2022-11-15
Ep 48: Ian Beckett on the Anglo-Zulu War 2022-11-08
Ep 47: Senator Tom Cotton on American Foreign Policy 2022-11-01
Ep 46: James M. Scott on Curtis LeMay in World War II 2022-10-25
Ep 45: Randall Schriver on China 2022-10-18
Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff 2022-10-11
Ep 43: Eli Lake on the Bush administration in the Middle East 2022-09-13
Ep 42: Ian Easton on Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Grand Strategy 2022-09-06
Ep 41: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on China 2022-08-30
Ep 40: Michael S. Neiberg on Vichy France 2022-08-09
Ep 39: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2 2022-08-02
Ep 38: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2 2022-07-26
Ep 37: Alexander Watson on WWI’s Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands 2022-07-19
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