Ep. 23: James Holmes on Sea Power

School of War · Mar 29, 2022 · 41m

James Holmes, the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, joins the show to discuss sea power, the war in Ukraine, and the possibility of war in the Pacific

Times

00:58 - Introduction

01:57 - Time spent considering Russia and the NATO alliance’s naval power

04:05 - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy

05:35 - What does Ukraine mean to Putin?

06:58 - The Crimean War

10:32 - Closing the Bosporus

16:15 - Does the war end well for Putin?

21:28 - Zelensky’s survival

23:12 - Worst-case scenario for Putin

25:43 - What the outcome in Ukraine will mean for Taiwan…