General Sir Patrick Sanders

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1,311 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Sep

General Sir Patrick Sanders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 12 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 4.

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The General & The Journalist · How Putin made North Korea richer – and more dangerous · 19 Aug 2026 podcast

So until next week, thanks Tom.

Thanks, Patrick.

The General & The Journalist · EXPLAINER: Britain's £5 billion drone gamble · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

Hello, Patrick Sanders here.

Today we're bringing you something extra from the General and the Journalist.

Could fleets of automated vessels really replace major warships, or are we simply swapping cost for vulnerability?

Here's Mark.

The General & The Journalist · Is Pete Hegseth’s macho culture fit for the military? · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Donald Trump's second administration is doing its level best to put a MAGA face on the US military.

Harsher, tougher, brasher, less constrained, and less inclusive than its predecessors.

And in Pete Heggseth, he appears to have found a Pentacan chief who understands the assignment.

The man Trump now calls his Secretary of War has promised a return to a so-called warrior ethos, but one that places a premium less on values and more on machismo.

And in the most recent actor Bravado, he intervened to lend his support to the pilots who carried out two spectacularly low level flybys that some veterans described as very dangerous.

I'm Tom.

And I'm Patrick.

Welcome to The General and the Journalist.

Tom, how do you know that Sean is an REF Harrier pilot?

You missed an open goal, Tom.

The correct answer to that question is because he told me so.

So the the the common denominator here, and we've said his name a dozen times already in this conversation, of course, is Pete Hegsith, the so-called Secretary of War, or SecDef, as you and I would probably prefer to refer to him as.

Let's just think a little bit about who he is.

Tom, you you've you spent some time in the build-up to the second Trump administration covering the election.

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