Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction

School of War · Dec 5, 2023 · 50m

Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at SAIS’s Kissinger Center and author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition, joins the show to talk about how future wars might be more a test of national endurance than expected.

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Times

• 01:56 Introduction

• 04:01 Sharp and short wars

• 09:07 After the first salvo

• 12:33 Geography as a predictor

• 15:21 Will nuclear deterrence work?

• 21:16 “An informationized local war”

• 25:13 What matters in protracted wars

• 28:59 Innovation and adaptation

• 33:51 The role of national leadership…