Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, joins the show to discuss future-war fiction and the possible futures of current wars.▪️Times     •      01:23 Introduction    •      02:10 Tom Clancy    •     05:40 Accessibility     •      07:14 The Battle of Dorking     •      09:57 White Sun War       •      13:39 Diplomatic failures    •      15:40 Friction     •      18:50 Israel transformed       •      23:00 Existential threats    •      25:25 Ukraine    •      32:31 Pressuring Putin       •      35:01 Taiwan and JapanFollow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcastFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack