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

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Ep 205: Mark Dubowitz on Israel’s Unfolding Campaign in Iran 2025-06-13
Ep 204: Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War 2025-06-10
Ep 203: Stephen Rabe on the Invasion of Normandy 2025-06-06
Ep 202: Fred Kagan on Ukraine’s Attack and the Future of War 2025-06-03
Ep 201: Zachary Griffiths & McKinsey Harb on the U.S. Army 2025-05-30
Ep 200: Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution at 250 2025-05-27
Ep 199: Jonathan Hackett on Our Failures in Iraq & Afghanistan 2025-05-23
Ep 198: Robert D. Kaplan on Crisis 2025-05-20
Ep 197: Mick Ryan on the Ukrainian Battlefield 2025-05-13
Ep 196: Thomas Bruscino and Mitchell G. Klingenberg on Mapping Warfare 2025-05-09
Ep 195: John Hillen on Strategic Thinking 2025-05-06
Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War 2025-05-02
Ep 193: Douglas Murray on Israel’s War and its Global Consequences 2025-04-29
Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago) 2025-04-25
Ep 191: Mark Dubowitz on Iran and the Trump Administration 2025-04-22
Ep 190: Michael Doran on “Restraint” and the Middle East 2025-04-15
Ep 189: Andrew Roberts on October 7th and Antisemitism 2025-04-11
Ep 188: Jonathan Horn on MacArthur and the Battle for the Philippines 2025-04-08
Ep 187: Richard Fontaine on the “Reverse Kissinger” 2025-04-01
Ep 186: Walter Russell Mead on Trump, Strategy, and Mercantilism 2025-03-25
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