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, 1914-1918, joins the show to discuss the critical role of the eastern front in World War I.▪️Times     •      01:43 Introduction     •      02:09 “The soul of the war”    •      04:00 Before the fighting    •     05:59 War aims    •      10:51 Tannenberg    •      15:54 Hindenburg and Ludendorff    •      19:57 Scale    •      22:40 Combat    •      27:14 Munitions scarcity     •      32:10 Russian collapse    •      36:45 Lenin returns    •      40:42 Brest-Litovsk    •      44:16 Proto-lebensraum    •      47:20 The West    •      52:30 War as a way outFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack