School of War

By The Free Press

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-maker... more

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March 09, 2022 Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine
Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine

Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the Long War Journal, joins the show to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

01:10 - Introduction
7:32 - Assessing Russian objectives in Ukraine
13:25 - Russian shortfalls
23:12 - Limits on Russian resources
28:37 - Does the lack of preparation hurt Russian troops?
32:21 - No fly zones
38:36 - Escalation scenarios
43:00 - Prospects for insurgency
49:32 - How does this end?
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55min
March 03, 2022 Ep. 19: Fred Kagan on Ukraine
Fred Kagan, Director of Critical Threats Project at AEI, joins the show to discuss the first week of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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00:42 - Introduction
01:40 - The situation at present
06:39 - Nature of original build-up of Russian forces
14:50 - Russian strategic and operational style
17:47 - Lack of political preparation
20:44 - Putin's background
24:22 - Will Russia win?
30:14 - What are Putin's weaknesses?
34:20 - What happens next if Kyiv falls?
39:41 - Impact on American national security
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45min
February 22, 2022Ep. 18: Bruce Jones on Seapower
Bruce Jones, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, joins the show to discuss seapower.

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00:51 - Introduction
01:17 - The importance of seapower today
06:45 - Innovation of container shipping and how that changed the global economy
12:50 - China re-enters the seas
16:54 - China’s security challenges at sea
22:44 - Shallow seas, narrow passages, and massive ships
24:06 - China’s strategic interest in Taiwan
26:10 - China’s alienation of potential allies
29:08 - American strategic view of the Pacific Ocean
34:41 - Relations between the United States and India, specifically in terms of taking on China
39:12 - Seapower theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan
44:55 - Comparing America’s quest for power at sea during the 20th century and China’s return to the sea today
48:48 - The role of oceanography in nation-state power competition
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54min
February 15, 2022Ep. 17: Alexander Mikaberidze on Napoleon
Alexander Mikaberidze, Professor of History and the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, joins the show to discuss the Napoleonic Wars.

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01:12 - Introduction
07:38 - How did European attitudes toward Napoleon change over his life?
13:34 - Nuances of nationalist sentiment Napoleon inspired
15:13 - Napoleonic wars, French hegemony, and geopolitics
20:23 - Napoleon's youth and the French Revolution
24:49 - Napoleon's early campaigns and his rise to power
29:16 - What is the Napoleonic way of war?
33:43 - What is Combined Arms and what are its advantages?
37:42 - What is the Eastern Question to Napoleon?
45:55 - How did Napoleon think about the Western Hemisphere?
53:46 - What remains of Napoleon's legacy after the Congress of Vienna?

Link
Book: The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
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1h 2min
February 08, 2022Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
Is the United States Navy prepared for war? Retired Navy Captain Gerry Roncolato joins the show to discuss the past, present, and future of American maritime power.

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02:08 - Introduction
03:31 - Is the U.S. Navy prepared for a great-power war?
04:59 - The Navy during the Interwar Period and the Battle of Guadalcanal
09:41 - The experience of war at sea
16:30 - Historical examples—and lessons for the Navy today—in Roncolato’s article, A Warfighting Imperative: Back to Basics for the Navy
20:49 - Alarming incidents during operations at sea and underlying problems
27:23 - Are the troops adequately prepared for war at sea?
38:20 - Books aspiring officers should read
40:52 - Maneuver warfare at sea
48:20 - Managing troops in the barracks versus maneuvering men in battle

Link
Roncolato’s article, A Warfighting Imperative: Back to Basics for the Navy
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57min
February 01, 2022Ep. 15: Andrew Lambert on Julian Corbett
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, joins the show to discuss British strategist Julian Corbett and his vision of seapower at the turn of the 20th century.

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01:37 - Introduction
02:02 - The British Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries
04:43 - Corbett as a lawyer, novelist, and strategist
09:05 - The Boer War and the future of the British Empire
13:26 - Corbett’s education on the principals of British power
16:12 - Britain’s power on land versus at sea
19:04 - British power in the Mediterranean
22:30 - How Corbett differentiates himself from Alfred Mahan
28:14 - The principles at the core of Corbett’s strategy
35: 56 - Maritime strategy throughout history
37:29 - An argument for a continental strategy
41:28 - What Corbett envisioned during World War I
51:43 - How Corbett’s ideas apply to British and American military strategy today
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59min
January 25, 2022Ep. 14: Kevin Hymel on General George S. Patton
Historian Kevin Hymel joins the show to discuss the life and leadership of the American World War II general most feared by the Nazis: George S. Patton.

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01:48 - Introduction
04:38 - Recently uncovered details about General Patton
08:38 - History’s first draft
10:51 - How Patton became one of the most famous World War II leaders
13:35 - Patton before the war
17:34 - Patton in North Africa
23:08 - Problems with General Dwight D. Eisenhower
26:55 - Patton’s leadership style
28:20 - Fighting in Tunisia
32:49 - Patton’s risk calculations
34:16 - Patton’s behavior, temperament, and treatment of other officers
43:05 - The Civil War and Patton’s strategy in North Africa
45:00 - Patton’s role in Sicily
49:49 - Shell shock and Patton's anti-Semitism
55:21 - Sicily and combat stress
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1h
January 18, 2022Ep. 13: Thomas Clavin on Joe Moser
Journalist and author Thomas Clavin joins the show to discuss the harrowing journey of Joe Moser, an American fighter pilot during World War II and the subject of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival.

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01:41 - Introduction
03:33 - Why a book on Joe Moser
09:44 - The Lockheed P-38 Lightning
11:09 - August 13, 1944
13:48 - Nazis send Moser to Buchenwald
15:44 - Buchenwald and the concentration camp system
17:48 - Karl-Otto and Ilse Koch
19:36 - Life at Buchenwald
21:34 - Colonel Phil Lamason
23:00 - Hannes Trautloft and Moser’s survival
27:27 - Leaving Buchenwald
31:47 - Joe after the war
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37min
January 11, 2022Ep. 12: Hal Brands on the Cold War
Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, joins the show to discuss the Cold War's lessons for great-power rivalry today.

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01:24 - Introduction
02:47 - Halford Mackinder and how Eurasian geopolitics framed the Cold War
05:37 - Mackinder's theory of the heartland
07:47 - China's Belt and Road Initiative as an application of Mackinder's theory
09:07 - Comparing the United States' approaches to the USSR and China
13:04 - Nuclear power during the Cold War
17:24 - How Cold War-era nuclear logic applies today
21:02 - No first use policy
26:56 - The Nixon administration's critique of containment strategy
29:58 - The collapse of the Soviet Union
32:15 - Theories of victory that led to the Vietnam War
35:08 - End of the Cold War
39:17 - Infrastructure needed to fight the Soviets in the United States, and what the U.S. needs to take on China today
44:02 - China's moves to decouple economically from the United States
46:47 - The United States' harrowing responsibility to take on adversarial powers
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51min
January 04, 2022Ep. 11: John Matteson on the Civil War's Cultural Impact
John Matteson, Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, joins the show to discuss how the Civil War—and in particular the fall of 1862—left its mark on the nation's culture and on some of its most famous citizens.

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01:25 - Introduction
03:28 - Fall of 1862
09:19 - Matteson's selection of Americans included in A Worse Place Than Hell
12:17 - Oliver Wendell Holmes and the 20th Massachusetts
16:13 - John Pelham
18:23 - Holmes, Pelham, and the battle of Antietam
23:56 - Holmes, Pelham, and the battle of Fredericksburg
27:23 - Valor and luck in battle
30:22 - The 20th Massachusetts in the battle of Fredericksburg
36:38 - Walt Whitman
40:17 - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Recorded December 7, 2021
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46min

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