Ep 39: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
Ocie Vest, retired Marine infantry officer, joins the show to talk about his experiences as a platoon commander in the Battle of Marjah and later as a combat leader in Nimruz Province, lessons learned...
2 Aug 202246min
Ep 38: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
Ocie Vest, retired Marine infantry officer, joins the show to talk about his experiences as a platoon commander in the Battle of Marjah and later as a combat leader in Nimruz Province, lessons learned...
26 Jul 20221h 12min
Ep 37: Alexander Watson on WWI’s Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands
Alexander Watson, Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London, joins the show to talk about the Eastern Front in World War One, and how the events of 1914/15 foreshadowed tragedies to com...
19 Jul 20221h
Ep 36: Charlie Laderman on Hitler’s Decision to Declare War on America
Charlie Laderman, lecturer at King’s College London and co-author of Hitler's American Gamble, joins the show to talk about his latest book, which covers the crucial days between the attack on Pearl H...
12 Jul 202259min
Ep 35: Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor on the Battle of Midway
Brendan Simms, Professor at the University of Cambridge, and his co-author, Steven McGregor, a U.S. Army vet, join the show to talk about their new book, The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War ...
28 Jun 202238min
Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
Andrew Corbett, author of Supreme Emergency: How Britain Lives With the Bomb, joins the show to talk about what it’s like commanding one of Her Majesty’s deadliest weapons, how deterrence policy actua...
21 Jun 202258min
Ep 33: Steven Pressfield on the Truth about War
Steven Pressfield, author of A Man at Arms and Gates of Fire, joins the show to talk about writing historical fiction, telling the truth about war, and why the hardest part of art is “doing the work” ...
14 Jun 202247min
Ep 32: Barry S. Strauss on Actium
Barry Strauss, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, joins the show to talk about Octavian, Antony, and Cleopatra, and the battle of Actium, the clash that “...
7 Jun 202248min
