S2E9: Gerald of Wales: Medieval Adaptation to Terrain and Enemy with Professor Matthew Strickland
Professor Matthew Strickland joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss Gerald of Wales, royal clerk and chaplain to King Henry II of England in 1184. In a time when the Norman rulers of the British Isles rel...
13 Dec 202233min
S2E8: Thinking the Unthinkable: The Nuclear Strategy of Herman Kahn with Dr Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Dr Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss prominent futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn. Herman Kahn (1922–1983) came across to some as a 'roly poly, second-str...
6 Dec 202233min
S2E7: The French Counterinsurgency School: Roger Trinquier and David Galula with Dr Elie Tenenbaum
Dr Élie Tenenbaum joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss two French strategists who focused strongly on the political and psychological warfare element of both insurgencies and counterinsurgency operation...
29 Nov 202227min
S2E6: Arming the Citizens: Machiavelli's Quest for Virtue
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) had a rocky career, with great ups when he had influential administrative positions in his city and great downs when he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured. He publ...
22 Nov 202232min
S2E5: Alexander Svechin: Inventor of Soviet Operational Art with Professor Gudrun Persson
Aleksandr Andreevich Svechin was an ethnic Russian born in Odessa in 1878. He became an officer of the imperial Russian army and then of the Red Army, where he rose to the rank of general and wrote a ...
15 Nov 202232min
S2E4: Ibn Khaldun and Early Muslim Strategic Thought with Professor Malik Mutfi
Professor Malik Mufti, a specialist on the politics and international relations of the Middle East, discusses two medieval Muslim works of exemplary scholarship and erudition. Like many other Muslim w...
8 Nov 202232min
S2E3: Giulio Douhet: Targeting Civilians from the Air, with Colonel Dr Stephen Renner
Following World War I, air power promised a revolutionary transformation of war, and Italian General Giulio Douhet (1869-1930) was its first prophet. After the carnage of the First World War, strategi...
1 Nov 202233min
S2E2: Neptune's Prophet: Alfred Thayer Mahan with Cdr Dr Benjamin Armstrong
Writing when the USA was becoming a great power, strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) drew on historical precedent in his talks and books to prepare America to pick up the baton from the United ...
25 Okt 202233min
