Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and author of Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, joins the show to discuss how politics and military command are inextricably linked.▪️Times • 01:08 Introduction• 02:01 Command • 05:44 Politics and generalship• 08:00 MacArthur myths • 11:59 Educating future commanders• 15:50 France’s end of empire• 22:57 Democratic drawbacks• 27:51 Putin’s position• 33:49 Ukraine endgame• 37:27 Better off without Putin• 39:09 Winter is coming
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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...