The Strategy Bridge

Elizabeth Samet joins the Strategy Bridge Podcast to talk about the mythology surrounding World War II, the literature and film that emerged following the war, and the mythology's effect on our beliefs about the use of American military force. Samet is the author of "Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness" and a professor of English at West Point.

Trent Hone returns to the Strategy Bridge Podcast to talk about his new book "Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific." We talk about how Nimitz organized and reorganized his staff as the war unfolded, his relationship with the Army, the effort to integrate the British Pacific Fleet into American operations and more. Trent Hone is a Vice President with ICF and an award-winning naval historian.

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk with Matt Kriner and Jon Lewis about the history, ideology, and organization of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.

Matt Kriner is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at Middlebury Institue of International Studies. He is an intelligence analyst with almost a decade of experience researching and analyzing US domestic violent extremism, transnational far-right extremism, and radicalization.

Jon Lewis is a Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, where he studies domestic violent extremism and homegrown violent extremism, with a specialization in the evolution of white supremacist and anti-government movements in the United States and federal responses to the threat.

They are the authors of the articles "Pride & Prejudice: The Violent Evolution of the Proud Boys" and "The Oath Keepers and their Role in the January 6 Insurrection," published in the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point's CTC Sentinel.

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast, we talk with Ali Wyne about the concept of great-power competition and what it means for American foreign policy. Wyne is a senior analyst at the Eurasia Group and is the author of "America's Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition."

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast, we talk with Matthew Kruer about the Susquehannock wars of the 1670s and 1680s in the mid-Atlantic and Bacon's Rebellion in colonial Virginia. Kruer is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago and author of "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America."

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast, Dr. John McManus returns to talk about "Island Infernos: The U.S. Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944" the second book in his series on the Army in the Pacific during World War Two. McManus is the Curators' Distinguished Professor of U.S. Military History at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

In this episode we talk with Dr. James Holmes about his book "Habits of Highly Effective Maritime Strategists." Holmes is a former Navy surface warfare officer and the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College.

Since gaining independence in 1947, the relations between India's civilian leaders and the military has changed over time as the country fought wars with China and Pakistan, developed nuclear weapons, and used the military for internal counterinsurgency operations. In this episode we talk with Dr. Ayesha Ray about Indian Civil-Military Relations. Ray is an Associate Professor of Political Science at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and the author of "The Soldier and the State in India: Nuclear Weapons, Counterinsurgency, and the Transformation of Indian Civil-Military Relations."

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast, we talk with Dr. Claude Berube about his book "On Wide Seas: The U.S. Navy in the Jacksonian Era." Berube is the museum director at the US Naval Academy Museum, an assistant professor of history at the Naval Academy, and a Naval Reserve officer.