Ep 89: Mick Ryan on Ukraine, Taiwan, and Future War

School of War · Sep 12, 2023 · 54m

Mick Ryan, Major General (retired) in the Australian Army and author of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan, joins the show to talk about the war today in Ukraine, the potential war in Taiwan, and the changing character of war itself.

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• 02:22 Introduction

• 05:49 China on Australia’s radar

• 11:56 Ukrainian progress

• 17:26 Timeframe

• 24:00 “We’re helping them tread water. We’re not helping them swim.”

• 27:37 What is China learning from Ukraine?

• 35:20 Can China pull off its own Operation Neptune?

• 41:12 Looking to the past

• 44:35 White Sun War

• 51:23 Everything new is old…