Ep 233: Mick Ryan on the Ukraine War’s Urgent Lessons

School of War · Sep 23, 2025 · 42m

Major General Mick Ryan, Australian Army (retired), Senior Fellow for Military Studies the Lowy Institute and author of the Futura Doctrina substack, joins the show to discuss his latest piece, Translating Ukraine Lessons for the Pacific Theatre.

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Times

• 01:40 Introduction

• 02:18 Translation

• 04:03 Ground forces

• 08:40 Australian defense

• 11:25 Threats from the North

• 13:25 Chinese influence

• 16:46 The mask slips

• 19:51 What we don’t know

• 24:36 The Pacific

• 32:18 Information ops

• 37:31 Corrosive influences

• 40:15 Mass

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