Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
Steve Kemper, author most recently of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, joins the show to talk about the political chaos in Tokyo in the years leading up to W...
28 Feb 202346min
Ep 62: Mike Pompeo on American Foreign Policy
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and author of Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love, joins the show to talk about American foreign...
21 Feb 202336min
Ep 61: Sonny Bunch on War Movies
Sonny Bunch, contributing columnist at the Washington Post and culture editor for The Bulwark, where he hosts The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood newsletter and podcast and Across the Movie Aisle, joins the...
14 Feb 202355min
Ep 60: Marc Hyden on Gaius Marius
Marc Hyden, Director of State Government Affairs at R Street and author of Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour, joins the show to discuss the life of one of the Roman Republic’s most inn...
7 Feb 20231h 2min
Ep 59: James Lacey on Roman Strategy
James Lacey, the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of War Studies at Marine Corps University and author of Rome: Strategy of Empire, joins the show to discuss the grand strategy of the Roman Empir...
31 Jan 202352min
Ep 58: Philip Taubman on George Shultz
Philip Taubman, lecturer at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and author of In The Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz, joins the show to dis...
24 Jan 202345min
Ep 57: Mike Gallagher on China and the U.S. Military
Congressman Mike Gallagher, U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s 8th district and chair of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party,...
17 Jan 202351min
Ep 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia
Ronald H. Spector, Professor Emeritus of History at George Washington University and author of A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955, joins the show to...
10 Jan 202336min
