Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM

School of War · Aug 20, 2024 · 41m

General Kenneth F. McKenzie, USMC, retired as the fourteenth commander of U.S. Central Command in 2022 and is the author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century (https://a.co/d/a2RmIDK). He joins the show to talk about the strategic significance of the Middle East.

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Times

• 01:16 Introduction

• 01:38 The Citadel

• 04:15 The humanities

• 10:00 Central Command

• 13:43 Thinking globally

• 17:53 Iran pushes back

• 23:05 Pursuing peace

• 26:15 Afghanistan

• 32:01 Collapse

• 37:58 A regional war

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