Ep 175: Mick Ryan on War & Fiction

School of War · Feb 7, 2025 · 38m

Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, joins the show to discuss future-war fiction and the possible futures of current wars.

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Times

• 01:23 Introduction

• 02:10 Tom Clancy

• 05:40 Accessibility

• 07:14 The Battle of Dorking

• 09:57 White Sun War

• 13:39 Diplomatic failures

• 15:40 Friction

• 18:50 Israel transformed

• 23:00 Existential threats

• 25:25 Ukraine

• 32:31 Pressuring Putin

• 35:01 Taiwan and Japan

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