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School of War
In School of War, CBS News National Security Analyst and Free Press columnist Aaron MacLean sits down with secretaries of state, top military historians, war planners, and key political decision-makers to help understand the lessons of war. Tune in as School of War takes you to the front lines. Aaron MacLean is a former senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He has worked as a foreign policy advisor and legislative director to Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and spent seven years in the U.S. Marine…
Episodes
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Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?
Michael Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute and co-host of the podcast…
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Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War
Rabbi Shlomo Brody, executive director of Ematai and author of Ethics of Our Fighters: A Jewish View on War and Morality, joins the show to talk about the…
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Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals
David Stahel, associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales and author of Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and…
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Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd
Stephen Robinson, author of The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War, joins the show to talk about Boyd, the man who developed the concept…
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Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11)
Eric Edelman, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Ambassador to Turkey and Finland, joins the show to talk about how nuclear strategic thinking…
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Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, joins the show to talk about the state of U.S…
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Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101
Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS and author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, joins the…
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Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East
Prit Buttar, historian and author of To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941–42, joins the show to talk about the siege of Leningrad and about the nature of war on…
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Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment
Thomas Mahnken, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joins the show to talk about net assessment and…
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Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy
John Noonan, senior advisor at POLARIS National Security, joins the show to talk about all things nuclear; the life of a missileer, the current U.S. arsenal…
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Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air
Donald L. Miller, historian and author of Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, the book behind Apple TV+’s…
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Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air
John Orloff, creator, writer and co-executive producer of Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air, joins Aaron to talk about the new show highlighting the WWII…
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Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War
John McManus, author of To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 and host of the We Have Ways of Making You Talk in the USA…
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Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics
Dmitry Filipoff, head of online content at the Center for International Maritime Security, joins the show to talk about modern naval tactics and the readiness…
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Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military
Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public…
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Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony
Sean Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins the show to talk about how the United States…
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Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East
Paul Edgar, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a scholar of…
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Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction
Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at SAIS’s Kissinger Center and author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War…
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Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University and author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global…
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Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions
Nicholas Morton, associate professor of history at Nottingham Trent University and author of The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near…
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Ep 98: Matthew Waxman on the Israel, Hamas, and the Law of Armed Conflict
Matthew Waxman, Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, joins the show to talk about what’s lawful on the battlefield, what’s not, and how the…
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Ep 97: Edward Luttwak on the IDF and the War in Israel
Edward Luttwak, strategist and co-author of The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces, joins the show to talk about the research…
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Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night
Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone, naval historians and co-editors of Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904-1944, join the show to talk about how naval…
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Ep 95: Richard Goldberg on the War in Israel & American Strategy
Rich Goldberg, senior advisor at Foundation for Defense of Democracies and co-host of Jewish Insider’s Limited Liability podcast, joins the show to talk about…
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Ep 94: Jonathan Schanzer on the War in Israel & Hamas
Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to talk about the state of the war in Israel…
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Ep 93: Michael Doran on the War in Israel & Ghosts of 1973
Michael Doran, senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute, joins the show to talk about…
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Ep 92: Cliff May on Defending Democracies
Cliff May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to talk about the neo-imperialism of America’s adversaries and…
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Ep 91: Paul Rahe on Sparta’s Grand Strategy
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…
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Ep 90: Andrew Krepinevich on Military Revolutions
Andrew Krepinevich, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of…
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Ep 89: Mick Ryan on Ukraine, Taiwan, and Future War
Mick Ryan, Major General (retired) in the Australian Army and author of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan, joins the show to talk about the war today in…
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Ep 88: John H. Maurer on Alfred Thayer Mahan (New Makers of Modern Strategy #10)
John H. Maurer, the Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Sea Power and Grand Strategy at the Naval War College and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy…
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Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare
Wayne Lee, Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at UNC and author of The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800…
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Ep 86: David Betz on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Russia’s Defense
David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London, joins the show to talk about what the status of the Ukrainian counteroffensive has…
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Ep 85: Antulio J. Echevarria on Jomini (New Makers of Modern Strategy #9)
Antulio J. Echevarria, General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the U.S. Army War College and a contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the…
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Ep 84: Mike Gallagher on the Korean War and Confronting China Today
Mike Gallagher, U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district and Chair of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the…
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Ep 84: B. Rivera and M. McGrath on John Boyd
Mark McGrath and Brian Rivera, hosts of the No Way Out podcast, join the show to talk about strategist John Boyd. ▪️ Times • 02:09 Introduction • 02:59 Who was…
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Ep 83: Aaron O’Connell on 'Geopolitics 101'
Aaron O’Connell, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, joins the show to talk about the “founding fathers” of 20th century…
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Ep 82: Charles Edel on John Quincy Adams (New Makers of Modern Strategy #8)
Charles Edel, senior adviser and Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins…
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Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Max Hastings, journalist, military historian, and author most recently of Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, joins the show to talk about the world’s brush…
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Ep 80: Holger Afflerbach on How Germany Lost WWI
Holger Afflerbach, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Leeds and author of On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War, joins…
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Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military
Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak Intelligence, host of the In Moscows’s Shadow podcast, and author of Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine, joins the show to…
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Ep 78: Hew Strachan on Clausewitz (New Makers of Modern Strategy #7)
Hew Strachan, Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and a contributor to New Makers of Modern…
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Ep 77: Iskander Rehman on Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin (New Makers of Modern Strategy #6)
Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at the Kissinger Center at Johns Hopkins SAIS and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to talk…
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Ep 76: Levi Roach on the Normans
Levi Roach, Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Exeter and author of Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe, joins the show to…
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Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
Toshi Yoshihara, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, author of Mao’s Army Goes to Sea, and contributor to the New Makers of…
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Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
Mark Moyar, the William P. Harris Chair of Military History at Hillsdale College, author of Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 and contributor to New…
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Ep 73: Carter Malkasian on Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency (New Makers of Modern Strategy #3)
Carter Malkasian, chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School and contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to…
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Ep 72: Matthew Kroenig on Machiavelli (New Makers of Modern Strategy #2)
Matthew Kroenig, professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and contributor to the…
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Ep 71: John Gaddis on Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #1)
John Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History at Yale University and a contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to…
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Ep 70: Will Scharf on China’s Fentanyl War on America
Will Scharf, former federal prosecutor and candidate for Missouri Attorney General, joins the show to talk about how the Chinese Communist Party uses fentanyl…
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Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"
John Lisle, a historian of science and the American intelligence community and author of The Dirty Tricks Department, joins the show to talk about the World…
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Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples
Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford, and author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples…
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Ep 67: Stephen J. Hadley on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush and lead editor of Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama…
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Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy
Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Military History for the Modern…
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Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem
John Hosler, Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace…
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Ep 64: Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan on China’s Three Strategies for Taiwan
Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute join the show to talk about the three strategies that China can use to seize control of…
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Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
Steve Kemper, author most recently of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, joins the show to talk about the political…
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Ep 62: Mike Pompeo on American Foreign Policy
Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and author of Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love…
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Ep 61: Sonny Bunch on War Movies
Sonny Bunch, contributing columnist at the Washington Post and culture editor for The Bulwark, where he hosts The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood newsletter and…
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Ep 60: Marc Hyden on Gaius Marius
Marc Hyden, Director of State Government Affairs at R Street and author of Gaius Marius: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Saviour, joins the show to discuss the…