Beatrice Heuser, Distinguished Professor at the Brussels School of Governance in the Free University of Brussels and author of <a href="https://a.co/d/0c18H124">Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions</a>, joins the show to discuss decision-making and strategic thinking.
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Times
02:58 Economists and strategy
07:59 Acting rationally vs logically
15:00 Mirror imaging 
20:01 How should we study strategy?
27:17 Denial
32:18 Strategic intelligence failures
36:15 Hidden causes
38:57 Everyone does it
 
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Beatrice Heuser, Distinguished Professor at the Brussels School of Governance in the Free University of Brussels and author of Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions, joins the show to discuss decision-making and strategic thinking. ▪️ Times 02:58 Economists and strategy 07:59 Acting rationally vs logically 15:00 Mirror imaging 20:01 How should we study strategy? 27:17 Denial 32:18 Strategic intelligence failures 36:15 Hidden causes 38:57 Everyone does it Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast Find more content on our School of War Substack

Beatrice Heuser, Distinguished Professor at the Brussels School of Governance in the Free University of Brussels and author of <a href="https://a.co/d/0c18H124" rel="noopener noreferrer">Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions</a>, joins the show to discuss decision-making and strategic thinking.
▪️
Times
02:58 Economists and strategy
07:59 Acting rationally vs logically
15:00 Mirror imaging&nbsp;
20:01 How should we study strategy?
27:17 Denial
32:18 Strategic intelligence failures
36:15 Hidden causes
38:57 Everyone does it
 
<a href="https://bit.ly/41EloxN" rel="noopener noreferrer">Follow along</a> on Instagram, X <a href="https://x.com/schoolofwarpod" rel="noopener noreferrer">@schoolofwarpod</a>, and YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SchoolofWarPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer">@SchoolofWarPodcast</a>
 
Find more content on our <a href="http://schoolofwar.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">School of War Substack</a>

Ep 272: Beatrice Heuser on Why Leaders Make Bad Decisions

This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an important military commander or political leader.  

Aaron MacLean is a 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 Corps.

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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an important military commander or political leader. Aaron MacLean is a 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 Corps. Visit our Substack for episode transcripts Follow along on Instagram

This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history.&nbsp;Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international incident; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; or the legacy of an important military commander or political leader.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Aaron MacLean is a 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 Corps.

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Follow along on Instagram

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