Ep 252: Andrew Lambert on the British Empire’s Strategic Challenges and America’s Today
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One, joins the show to discuss how the British Empire maintained the balance in Europe between the fall of Napoleon to the summer of 1914.
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Times
02:59 Studying the Problem of War
06:20 British Perspectives of the European Coast
11:33 The French Likelihood of Invading Britain
21:40 The Scheldt River Estuary
30:33 Marlborough, Wellington, and Eisenhower
36:48 The 19th Century and the Rise of Steampower
47:35…
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