Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at SAIS’s Kissinger Center and author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition, joins the show to talk about how future wars might be more a test of national endurance than expected.▪️Times     •    01:56 Introduction     •    04:01 Sharp and short wars    •    09:07 After the first salvo    •    12:33 Geography as a predictor    •    15:21 Will nuclear deterrence work?    •    21:16 “An informationized local war”    •    25:13 What matters in protracted wars    •    28:59 Innovation and adaptation    •    33:51 The role of national leadership in protracted conflict    •    38:49 Sino-U.S. competition     •    44:50 Absorbing massive casualties    •    48:06 PolybiusFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack