S3E12: Petraeus's 'Big Four': Brainstorm, Communicate, Implement, Assess
To conclude Season Three of Talking Strategy, US Army General (ret.) Dr David Petraeus shares with us his philosophy about making good strategy. A scholarly soldier with a long and varied career, he c...
25 Apr 202340min
S3E11: Raoul Castex: The Servitude of Strategy with Professor Martin Motte
Raoul Castex (1878–1968) was an active naval officer who theorised widely on strategy. As an advocate of 'jointness', he took a comprehensive approach rather than relying on any one service. A child o...
18 Apr 202330min
S3E10: Mao Zedong's Strategy for Revolutionary War with Professor Steve Tsang
Professor Steve Tsang joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss the founding father of the Chinese People's Republic, Mao Zedong. Mao was both a Leninist strategic theorist and the leader of the Chinese Comm...
11 Apr 202333min
S3E9: Sir Michael Quinlan and British Nuclear Strategy with Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White & Dr Kristan Stoddart
With a serious commitment to the 'Just War' tradition, Sir Michael Quinlan (1930–2009), chief British nuclear strategist of the late 1970s and 1980s, helped to construct the complex edifice of the Bri...
4 Apr 202330min
S3E8: Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means: Dietrich von Bülow with Dr Arthur Kuhle
Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow (1757–1807) was called 'everything from a conceited crank to the founder of modern military science' (R R Palmer). Probably the last Prussian strategist to sympathise with ...
28 Mar 202332min
S3E7: T.E. Lawrence: Understanding Irregular Warfare's Cultural and Human Terrain with Dr Robert Johnson
Lawrence of Arabia is legendary status, Britain's most romantic strategic theorist-cum-practitioner; as 'al-Lorans', he won the hearts of many Arabs in their fight for independence from the Ottoman Em...
21 Mar 202333min
S3E6: Net Assessment as a Tool of Strategy: Andrew Marshall, with Dr Thomas G Mahnken
Foreign policy strategist Andrew Marshall had a career that spanned seven decades from the late 1940s. He was hailed by a former KGB officer as 'the grey cardinal, the éminence grise' of the US revolu...
14 Mar 202329min
S3E5: Kautilya: India's Forerunner to Machiavelli? with Professor Kaushik Roy
Kautilya lived in India from 375 to 283 BC. He ranks alongside Sun Tzu as one of the great early sages who wrote about the relations between polities, and thus also about wars between them. Kaushik Ro...
7 Mar 202332min
