School of War

Ep 197: Mick Ryan on the Ukrainian Battlefield

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mick Ryan, retired major general in the Australian Army and author of  The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire, joins the show to di...

Ep 196: Thomas Bruscino and Mitchell G. Klingenberg on Mapping Warfare

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Bruscino, professor at the U.S. Army War College, and Mitchell G. Klingenberg, assistant professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff C...

Ep 195: John Hillen on Strategic Thinking

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Hillen, James C. Wheat Professor in Leadership at Hampden-Sydney College and author of The Strategy Dialogues: A Primer on Business Strategy and...

Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Moyar, William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College and author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968,  joins the ...

Ep 193: Douglas Murray on Israel’s War and its Global Consequences

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Douglas Murray, journalist and author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, joins the show for a wide ranging con...

Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall...

Ep 191: Mark Dubowitz on Iran and the Trump Administration

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and host of The Iran Breakdown podcast, joins the show to discuss the Iranian nuclear...

Ep 190: Michael Doran on “Restraint” and the Middle East

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Doran, senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute, joins the show to discuss “r...

Ep 189: Andrew Roberts on October 7th and Antisemitism

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lord Andrew Roberts, the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chair of the 7 October Parliamentary Com...

Ep 188: Jonathan Horn on MacArthur and the Battle for the Philippines

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Horn, former White House speechwriter and author of The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines,...

Ep 187: Richard Fontaine on the “Reverse Kissinger”

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and co-author of No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Poli...

Ep 186: Walter Russell Mead on Trump, Strategy, and Mercantilism

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Walter Russell Mead, Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Florida's Hamilton Center and columnist for The Wal...

Ep 185: Lara Burns on the Hamas Threat in America

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lara Burns, retired FBI Special Agent and head of terrorism research at the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University, joins the show t...

Ep 184: Alexander Burns on the Dawn of the Modern Battlefield

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Burns, Assistant Professor of History at Franciscan University and author of Infantry in Battle 1733-1783 (From Reason to Revolution), joins...

Ep 183: Tom Cotton on China

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Cotton, U.S. senator from Arkansas and author of Seven Things You Can't Say About China, joins the show to talk about the CCP’s global designs. ...

Ep 182: Sean McMeekin on Communism

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sean McMeekin, Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College and author of To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism...

Ep 181: Michael Cook on the Islamic Conquests

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of ...

Ep 180: Stephen Kotkin on Endgames in Ukraine

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the show to discuss how both sides have lost the Ukraine War, and the risks ...

Ep 179: Phillips O’Brien on Grand Strategy in WW2

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Phillips O’Brien, chair of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini...

Ep 178: Mark Montgomery on Cyber War

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, joins the show to discuss...

Ep 177: Christopher Kolakowski on Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and editor of Tenth Army Commander: The World War II Diary of Simon Bolivar Buckner ...

Ep 176: David Betz on Modern Fortification

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London and author of The Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First Century, ...

Ep 175: Mick Ryan on War & Fiction

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition an...

Ep 174: Hal Brands on the Long Struggle for Eurasia

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of T...

Ep 173: Tom Karako on America’s Iron Dome

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Karako, Senior Fellow and Director of the Missile Defense Project at CSIS, joins the show to discuss what President Trump’s executive order on m...

Ep 172: Eric Chewning and Tom Moore on the Warship Production Crisis

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Chewning and Thomas Moore of HII join the show to discuss America’s military shipbuilding challenges, and their potential solutions. ▪️ Tim...

Ep 171: I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Diana Mara Henry and Gabe Scheinmann join the show to discuss the new book I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy, which char...

Ep 170: Evan Mawdsley on WW2 in the Central Pacific

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Mawdsley, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and author of Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacifi...

Ep 169: Dmitry Filipoff on Naval Warfare in 2025

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dmitry Filipoff, associate research analyst at the Center for Navy Analyses, joins the show to discuss the U.S. Navy surface component and the grave ...

Ep 168: Nadège Rolland on China’s Vision of Strategic Space

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, at the National Bureau of Asian Research and author of Mapping China's Strategic Space, joins th...

Ep 167: Dan Blumenthal and Kyle Balzer on China’s Nuclear Buildup

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Blumenthal and Kyle Balzer, co-authors of The True Aims of China’s Nuclear Buildup for Foreign Affairs, join the show to discuss the geopolitica...

Ep 166: Rachel Kousser on Alexander the Great

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Kousser, professor of Classics and Art History at the City University of New York and author of Alexander at the End of the World, joins the sh...

Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department ...

Ep 164: Mark Dubowitz on Syria’s Collapse

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Dubowitz, chief executive officer of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to break down the collapse of the Assad regime and the...

Ep 163: School of War Goes to Israel—Lessons from a Savage Year

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Host Aaron MacLean recently embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces and saw firsthand Israel’s war with Iranian proxy groups Hezbollah and Hamas. W...

Ep 162: Michael Leggiere on Military History on Campus

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Leggiere, Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida and editor of War Studies Journal 1, joins the show to discuss the sad state o...

Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending, join...

Ep 160: Thomas Barfield on Empire and Imperial Strategies Today

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Barfield, Professor and Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Boston University and author of Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial Hist...

Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine, joins th...

Ep 158: Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal on an Economic Strategy for China

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Randall Schriver, Chairman of the Board at The Project 2049 Institute, and Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, join th...

Ep 157: Frank Cohn—Veterans Day Special

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Watch this episode on YouTube. Frank Cohn joins the show to talk about his life: fleeing Hitler’s Germany, his return as a U.S. soldier tasked with ...

Ep 156: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Koreans in Russia

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the show to discuss the North Korean regime and...

Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Lloyd, Professor of Modern Warfare in the Defence Studies at King’s College London and author of The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War...

Ep 154: Ben Noon on the U.S.-China Chip Wars

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Noon of the Vandenberg Coalition writes about US-China rivalry and geopolitics. He joins the show to discuss the critical fight for semiconductor ...

Ep 153: Scott Hartwig on the Battle of Antietam

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Hartwig, author ofI Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign, joins the show to discuss the ...

Ep 152: Jacqueline Deal on China’s Strategy

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jacqueline Deal, President and CEO of the Long Term Strategy Group and recently the author of the article Competing against Ourselves: How U.S. Polic...

Ep 151: Nicholas Morton on the Crusades

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Morton, Senior Lecturer in History, Nottingham Trent University and author of The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, ...

Ep 150: Katherine Kuzminski on the Draft

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Kuzminski, Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS, joins the show to discuss recruiting and mass mobilization in th...

Ep 149: Mark Dubowitz on the Iran-Israel War

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to help us understand breaking developments in the war between...

Ep 148: Alex Miller on Battlefield Technology

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Miller, Senior Advisor for Science and Technology and the CTO to the Chief of Staff of the Army, joins the show to talk about how we are preparin...

Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Ledwidge, Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College and author of Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the ...

Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments join the show to talk about what our defense establishment has g...

Ep 145: Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli at War

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Lynch, Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University and author of Machiavelli on War, joins the show to talk about renaissa...

Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and contributor to The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend T...

Ep 143: Sabin Howard on WWI, Art, and Honoring Veterans

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sabin Howard, sculptor of A Soldier’s Journey, the central feature of the new World War I Memorial in Washington, DC, joins the show to talk about h...

Ep 142: Andrew Roberts Debunks Darryl Cooper on Winston Churchill

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny, joins the show to give his thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s controversial guest Darryl Cooper...

Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1)

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Pottinger, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chairman of FDD’s China Program, and author of The Boiling Moat: Urgent Ste...

Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins the show to discuss his plan to spend five percent ...

Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

General Kenneth F. McKenzie, USMC, retired as the fourteenth commander of U.S. Central Command in 2022 and is the author of The Melting Point: High Co...

Ep 138: Joshua S. Treviño on the Southern Border Crisis

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua S. Treviño, Chief of Intelligence and Research and the Director for Texas Identity at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show to ta...

Ep 137: Richard Frank on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and World War II’s Endgame

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Frank, historian and author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire and Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July...

 Ep 136: Ronald C. White on Joshua Chamberlain

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ronald C. White, Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and author of On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, join...

Ep 135: Rich Goldberg on Israel‘s Northern Crisis

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rich Goldberg, senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to talk about the expanding war between Israel and Iran. ▪...

Ep 134: Michael Sobolik on China’s Geostrategy

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Sobolik, author of Countering China's Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance and Senior Fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies at the American ...

Ep 133: James Holland on World War II in Italy, 1943

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Holland, author of The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 and host of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast, joins the show to talk a...

Ep 132: Michael Kofman on the Battlefield in Ukraine (War in Ukraine #4)

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Kofman, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and contributor to War in Ukraine: Conflic...

Ep 131: Thomas Mahnken on Strategic Fallacies (War in Ukraine #3)

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Mahnken, President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and contributor to War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the...

Ep 130: John Spencer on Israel’s Unprecedented War (or, Urban Warfare 101)

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute and host of the Urban Warfare Project, joins the show to talk about urban co...

Ep 129: Frank Gavin on Nuclear Strategy and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #2)

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Gavin, the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins ...

Ep 128: Stephen Kotkin on Russia and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #1)

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and contributor to War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractur...

Ep 127: Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine on the Failed Pivot to Asia

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine, authors of Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power, join the show to talk about America’...

Ep 126: Michel Paradis on D-Day and Eisenhower

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michel Paradis—litigator, national security law scholar, and author of The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superp...

Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Bunker, journalist and author of In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950, joins the show to talk about the first decade of the Cold ...

Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Brennan, Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and author of Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socrat...

Ep 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold War

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of To Run the Wor...

 Ep 122: Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger on a Victory Strategy for China

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger join the show to discuss their recent Foreign Affairs essay on the need for a victory strategy in America’s cold w...

Ep 121: Andy Lowery on Drones and Directed Energy

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Lowery, CEO of EPIRUS and a retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, joins the show to talk about directed energy weapons on the modern battlefiel...

Ep 120: Iskander Rehman on the Emperor Tiberius and American Primacy

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Kissinger Center and author of Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius, ...

Ep 119: Yaroslav Trofimov on the War in Ukraine

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign-affairs correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and author of Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukra...

Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute and co-host of the podcast C...

Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rabbi Shlomo Brody, executive director of Ematai and author of Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality, joins the show to talk about...

Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Stahel, associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales and author of Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt...

Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Robinson, author of The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War, joins the show to talk about Boyd, the man who developed the ...

Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11)

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Ambassador to Turkey and Finland, joins the show to talk about how nuclear strategic th...

Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, joins the show to talk about the state...

Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS and author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,...

Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prit Buttar, historian and author of To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42, joins the show to talk about the siege of Leningrad and about the nature ...

Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Mahnken, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins the show to talk about net assessme...

Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Noonan, senior advisor at POLARIS National Security, joins the show to talk about all things nuclear; the life of a missileer, the current U.S. a...

Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald L. Miller, historian and author of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, the book behind Apple...

Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Orloff, creator, writer and co-executive producer of Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air, joins Aaron to talk about the new show highlighting the WW...

Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John McManus, author of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 and host of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk in the US...

Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dmitry Filipoff, head of online content at the Center for International Maritime Security, joins the show to talk about modern naval tactics and the r...

Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences o...

Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins the show to talk about how the Unite...

Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Edgar, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a schol...

Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at SAIS’s Kissinger Center and author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great...

Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University and author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Gl...

Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Morton, associate professor of history at Nottingham Trent University and author of The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medi...

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

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Waxman, Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, joins the show to talk about what’s lawful on the battlefield, what’s not,...