Mick chats with scholar, military officer, and writer Colonel Nathan K. Finney, PHD about mobilisation and how nations generate and deploy military power. They discuss Nathan's new book on the subject, Orchestrating Power, published by Cornell University Press. Mick and Nate also discuss how the speed with which the United States of America mobilised for the First World War and compared it to similar efforts in modern militaries.

Nathan provides also provides an answer to the show's defining question.

You can also grab a book & crack on here.