Ep 91: Paul Rahe on Sparta’s Grand Strategy

School of War · Sep 26, 2023 · 52m

Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, and author of Sparta's Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 BC, joins the show to talk about proxy wars, the strategy of Sparta, and the role of regimes in the shaping of foreign policy.

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• 01:37 Introduction

• 06:43 Donald Kagan

• 08:32 The Spartan point of view

• 11:59 Why change the perspective?

• 17:30 Sparta’s goals

• 24:59 Why does Sparta matter?

• 31:56 “Putin’s completely irrational”

• 33:56 Is Realism dangerous?

• 39:17 Why do the Athenians go to…