Ep 232: Ran Baratz on the Gaza War and Israel’s ‘Postmodern’ Military

School of War · Sep 19, 2025 · 53m

Ran Baratz, military historian and former senior Israeli official, and author of What's Wrong with the Postmodern Military?, joins the show to discuss operations in Gaza and problems with how the IDF officer corps thinks about war.

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• 01:37 Introduction

• 02:27 Gaza

• 06:23 Diplomatic obstacles

• 12:27 Worse than you think

• 15:28 Paradigm shift

• 30:23 Real wars

• 38:49 Art of the general

• 43:51 War as policy

• 50:00 Netanyahu

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