Ep 179: Phillips O’Brien on Grand Strategy in WW2

School of War · Feb 21, 2025 · 53m

Phillips O’Brien, chair of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War, joins the show to discuss the nature of strategic decision making in World War II and beyond.

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Times

• 01:50 Introduction

• 02:48 Germany 1st debunked

• 06:50 A matter of choices

• 08:20 Management styles

• 11:23 FDR the navalist

• 14:42 Strategic balance

• 16:52 The British Empire

• 18:58 Churchill the shapeshifter

• 26:42 Britain’s place

• 29:22 Casablanca

• 33:54 Making Hitler

• 38:43…