WarPod #21 | Partnerships or proxies? The risks of arming and training others

Delina Goxho and Abigail Watson speak to Jack Watling, from RUSI, and Erica Gaston, from the Global Public Policy institute, about support relationships, partnerships and proxies. In particular, they discuss Jack and Nick Reynold's book "War by Others' Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building" and Erica's work on U.S.-Iran Proxy Competition in Iraq.  Further Reading: U.S.-Iran Proxy Competition in Iraq by Erica Gaston, Douglas Ollivant in New America, https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/reports/us-iran-proxy-competition-iraq/  War by Others' Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building, RUSI, https://rusi.org/publication/whitehall-papers/war-others-means-delivering-effective-partner-force-capacity-building  No Such Thing as a Quick Fix: The Aspiration-Capabilities Gap in British Remote Warfare by Emily Knowles and Abigail Watson, https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/no-such-thing-as-a-quick-fix-the-aspiration-capabilities-gap-in-british-remote-warfare Fusion Doctrine in Five Steps: Lessons Learned from Remote Warfare in Africa by Abigail Watson and Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/fusion-doctrine-in-five-steps-lessons-learned-from-remote-warfare-in-africa Music by BenSound Image credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff/ Flickr Creative Commons