The Dead Prussian Podcast

Mick chats with Sebastian Junger, award-winning journalist and Oscar-nominated documentarian. They chat about his book, Tribe, which talks about the bonds made in war.

Sebastian offers his answer to the final question and it is quite a cracker. 

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Mick chats with Ulrike Franke, a researcher specialising in the effects of the use of drones on the militaries that employ them. Mick and Ulrike cover everything from traffic jams to the swarms of the future.

Ulrike is our first living Prussian to offer an answer to the final question. 

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Mick chats with Tom McDermott about ethics and war in the modern era. Tom is a military ethicist and serving officer in the Australian Army. His Occasional Paper, Soldiers, Squadrons, and Ethicists, discusses some issues on ethics and strategy as well as possible ways to overcome them.

Tom offers his second answer to the final question. 

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Mick continues the discussion on war related nervous disorders with Dr Meghan Fitzpatrick. This time the focus is on the Korean War. Meghan talks Mick through the developments in forward military psychology and her upcoming book, Invisible Scars: Mental Trauma and the Korean War.

Meghan offers her third answer to the final question. 

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In this episode Mick chats with Brett Friedman, a war-game analyst, former marine, and author. They discuss his new book, On Tactics.

Brett also provides a concise answer to the final question. 

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In this episode Mick chats with Dr Matthew Ford, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex and the author of Weapon of Choice. They discuss the development of small arms and it's influence on war.

Matthew provides a succinct and complex response to the final question. 

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In this episode Mick chats with Major General John S Harrel (Ret'd), author of The Nisibis War. They discuss the Roman defence of the east in late antiquity and the war with Persia that lasted 25 years!

John provides a lawyer's response to the final question. 

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In this episode Mick chats with Professor Hal Brands, a Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the author of What Good is Grand Strategy? They discuss the the concept of Grand Strategy and how it relates to the use of military force to achieve a political objective.

Hal provides one of the most concise responses to the final question. 

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This short episode is a book review of The Human Face of War by Professor Jim Storr The book provides an in-depth analysis of warfare and those who conduct it.

Mick reviews the book and gives it a rating on our new 'Carls' scale. 

In this episode Mick chats with Dr Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an editor, with Jim Mattis, of the book Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military. They discuss the civil-military relationship and contemporary American views of the American military. Kori also explains how her students at Stanford can gain extra credit for listening to our show.

Kori also provides a concise answer to the final question.

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