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School of War — 327 episodes
America’s Iran Problem Isn’t Going Away, with Mike Doran
Lindsey Graham: The Last of the ‘Three Amigos’ with Vance Serchuk
How Choke Points Became Weapons of War, with Edward Fishman
Four Years Fighting Russia: An American Soldier’s Testimony
The American Revolution Was a World War, with Richard Bell
One Battle of Hormuz After Another, with Sal Mercogliano
Why Chimpanzees Go to War, with John Mitani
From Teenage Soldier to Commander in Ukraine, with Mamuka Mamulashvili
Can Courage Save America? With Rye Barcott
Reading Trump’s Iran Deal So You Don’t Have To, with Mark Dubowitz
Auditing the Iran War, with Eliot Cohen
The Start-Up Spirit Behind America's Founding, with Arthur Herman
Why a Weakened Iran Remains Dangerous, with Behnam Ben Taleblu
The AI Arms Race: Can Our Intel Community Keep Up? With Anthony Vinci
The Iran War and a New World Order in Asia, with Rep. Michael Baumgartner
The Secret Mission to Save Europe’s Jews, with Matti Friedman
The Democratic Party’s Worldview, with Jake Sullivan
Niall Ferguson on Cold War II and the Rise of Anti-History
Grading Operation Epic Fury, with Christian Brose
The New Middle Eastern Balance of Power, with Elliott Abrams
China’s War on Faith and Trump’s Trip to Beijing, with Governor Sam Brownback
Trump Heads to China: Who Has the Upper Hand? With Dan Blumenthal
America’s Coming Population Crash—and China’s, with Nicholas Eberstadt
Is Trump Forcing the Strait of Hormuz Open? With Rich Goldberg and Garrett Exner
NORAD and Protecting America From Nuclear Attack, With Lance Blythe
The Attempt on Trump’s Life and Political Violence in America, with Douglas Murray
How the British Army Learned to Win, with Huw Davies
Has America Fought Well in the Iran War? With Mick Ryan
The Future of Warfighting Technology Is Now with Aviv Shapira
How Trump’s Blockade of Iran Actually Works with Sal Mercogliano
The Strategic View From the Baltic Sea with General Michael Claesson
Danger Lurks In J.D. Vance’s Negotiations with Iran
Is the Strait of Hormuz Closed Forever? with Sal Mercogliano
America’s Incredible Rescue of its Downed Airmen in Iran and Trump’s Strategic Options Ahead with Rich Goldberg & Garrett Exner
Trump Says We’re ‘Winning’ in Iran. It’s More Complicated.
Even as America Fights Iran, It’s Not Ready for China—with Eyck Freymann
How Can America Defeat Iran? With John Spencer
Are We About to Send the Marines Into Iran? With Rich Goldberg and Garrett Exner
Did Trump Miscalculate on Iran? with Niall Ferguson
Can Trump Beat China by Winning In Iran? with Zineb Riboua
EDid the Islamic Revolution Succeed? And Can It Survive? with Ray Takeyh
How the War in Iran Actually Works with Mark Montgomery
General Frank McKenzie on the War in Iran
Ep 281: Fred Kagan on the Iran War, Drone Defense, and the Future of the Middle East
Ep 280: Mike Doran on the Iran War
Ep 279: Mark Dubowitz on U.S.-Israel War with Iran
Ep 278: Yossi Cohen on The Mossad
Ep 277: Behnam Ben Taleblu—Will There Be a War with Iran?
Ep 276: Charlie Laderman on Regime Change in Iran
Ep 275: Michael Baumgartner on Marco Rubio’s Speech and the Future of Europe
Ep 274: Lawrence Freedman on Strategists and Ukraine
Ep 273: Matthew Kroenig on China’s Nuclear Test
Ep 272: Beatrice Heuser on Why Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Ep 271: Geoff Ball on the Future of America’s Infantry
Ep 270: David Shedd on China’s Spies
Ep 269: Walter Russell Mead on Donald and Davos and Greenland, Oh My!
Ep 268: Seth Jones on America’s Defense Industrial Crisis
Ep 267: Michael Lurie on Israel’s New Laser Weapon
Ep 266: Blake Seitz & Mike Watson—Were the Founders Isolationists?
Ep 265: Mark Dubowitz on Is Iran Next?
Ep 264: Mark Montgomery on Seizing Venezuela’s Shadow Fleet
Ep 263: Elliott Abrams on the Venezuela Raid and Risks Ahead
Ep 262: Mark Jones Jr. on Special Air Operations and American Military Dominance
Ep 261: Behnam Ben Taleblu on the (Next!) Iran-Israel War
Ep 260: Kevin Passmore on the Maginot Line and the Battle of France
Ep 259: Christian Brose on Rethinking How We Fight
Ep 258: Eric Cline on the Collapse of Civilizations
Ep 257: Elliott Abrams on the Venezuela Crisis
Ep 256: Nadia Schadlow on Strategic Depth
Ep 255: Roya Hakakian on the Islamic Revolution
Ep 254: Frank Gavin on History and Statecraft
Ep 253: Michael Pack on the Battle of Fallujah
Ep 252: Andrew Lambert on the British Empire’s Strategic Challenges and America’s Today
Ep 251: John Lee on Ukraine, Peace, and What China Wants
Ep 250: Jeremy Armstrong on Ancient Rome’s Myths and Warfare
Ep 249: Mick Ryan on the Ukrainian Way of War
Ep 248: Marc Milner on D-Day and the US-UK Battle for Hegemony
Ep 247: Nicholas Wright on the Brain Science of War
Ep 246: Veterans Day Special — Remembering Angus MacLean
Ep 245: Edward Luce on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Twentieth Century
Ep 244: Oren Cass on a Strategy of Reciprocity
Ep 243: Alexander Mikaberidze on Russia’s Failed Battle with Turkey… in 1809
Ep 243: Joshua S. Treviño—Is Trump After Regime Change in Venezuela?
Ep 242: Michael Sobolik on On Donald Trump’s Trade War with China
Ep 241: Julian Jackson on Nazi-Occupied France and Pétain
Ep 240: Lance R. Blyth on Mountain Warfare
Ep 239: Charles C. Mann on How the System Works
Ep 238: James Titterton on Medieval Deception
Ep 237: Toshi Yoshihara on China’s Subversive Strategies
Ep 236: Joshua Rovner on Grand Strategy
Ep 235: Tyler Grey on Serving in Delta Force and the Warrior’s Journey
Ep 234: A. Wess Mitchell on Diplomacy
Ep 233: Mick Ryan on the Ukraine War’s Urgent Lessons
Ep 232: Ran Baratz on the Gaza War and Israel’s ‘Postmodern’ Military
Ep 231: Peter Rough on Russian Drone Incursions into NATO
Ep 230: Prit Buttar on the Great Soviet Offensive of 1944
Ep 229: Nadège Rolland on China’s Borderlands
Ep 228: Brad Bowman and Ryan Brobst on “Axis” Military Cooperation
Ep 227: Yaakov Katz on What Went Wrong on 10/7
Ep 226: Geoffrey Wawro on the Vietnam War
Ep 225: Geoff Ball on the Evacuation of Kabul
Ep 224: Barry Strauss on Ancient Rome’s Wars with Israel
Ep 223: Mick Ryan on Ukraine Negotiations and Fighting
Ep 222: Peter Mansoor on MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines
Ep 221: Joel Wuthnow and Phillip Saunders on China’s PLA
Ep 220: Marc LiVecche on Hiroshima and Morality
Ep 219: Stephen Platt on Mao's China and the Original Marine Raider
Ep 218: Lawerence Freedman on Endless Wars
Ep 217: Steven Rabalais on Ike’s Mentor
Ep 216: Will Somerindyke on Making Munitions in America
Ep 215: Ryan McDermott on Invading Iraq in 2003
Ep 214: Bryan Clark on the Coming Sensor War with China
Ep 213: Paul Lay on Cromwell and the English Civil War
Ep 212: Arnold Punaro on Fighting in Vietnam and Washington
Ep 211: Daniel Samet on the Origins of the U.S.-Israel Relationship
Ep 210: Scott Boorman on Sun Tzu
Ep 209: Jonathan Schanzer on the Israel-Iran Ceasefire
Ep 208: Mike Doran on America’s Strikes in Iran
Ep 207: Mark Dubowitz on the Israel-Iran War and American Intervention
Ep 206: Cleo Paskal on China’s Central Pacific Strategy
Ep 205: Mark Dubowitz on Israel’s Unfolding Campaign in Iran
Ep 204: Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War
Ep 203: Stephen Rabe on the Invasion of Normandy
Ep 202: Fred Kagan on Ukraine’s Attack and the Future of War
Ep 201: Zachary Griffiths & McKinsey Harb on the U.S. Army
Ep 200: Rick Atkinson on the American Revolution at 250
Ep 199: Jonathan Hackett on Our Failures in Iraq & Afghanistan
Ep 198: Robert D. Kaplan on Crisis
Ep 197: Mick Ryan on the Ukrainian Battlefield
Ep 196: Thomas Bruscino and Mitchell G. Klingenberg on Mapping Warfare
Ep 195: John Hillen on Strategic Thinking
Ep 194: Mark Moyar on the Vietnam War
Ep 193: Douglas Murray on Israel’s War and its Global Consequences
Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)
Ep 191: Mark Dubowitz on Iran and the Trump Administration
Ep 190: Michael Doran on “Restraint” and the Middle East
Ep 189: Andrew Roberts on October 7th and Antisemitism
Ep 188: Jonathan Horn on MacArthur and the Battle for the Philippines
Ep 187: Richard Fontaine on the “Reverse Kissinger”
Ep 186: Walter Russell Mead on Trump, Strategy, and Mercantilism
Ep 185: Lara Burns on the Hamas Threat in America
Ep 184: Alexander Burns on the Dawn of the Modern Battlefield
Ep 183: Tom Cotton on China
Ep 182: Sean McMeekin on Communism
Ep 181: Michael Cook on the Islamic Conquests
Ep 180: Stephen Kotkin on Endgames in Ukraine
Ep 179: Phillips O’Brien on Grand Strategy in WW2
Ep 178: Mark Montgomery on Cyber War
Ep 177: Christopher Kolakowski on Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Ep 176: David Betz on Modern Fortification
Ep 175: Mick Ryan on War & Fiction
Ep 174: Hal Brands on the Long Struggle for Eurasia
Ep 173: Tom Karako on America’s Iron Dome
Ep 172: Eric Chewning and Tom Moore on the Warship Production Crisis
Ep 171: I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy
Ep 170: Evan Mawdsley on WW2 in the Central Pacific
Ep 169: Dmitry Filipoff on Naval Warfare in 2025
Ep 168: Nadège Rolland on China’s Vision of Strategic Space
Ep 167: Dan Blumenthal and Kyle Balzer on China’s Nuclear Buildup
Ep 166: Rachel Kousser on Alexander the Great
Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation
Ep 164: Mark Dubowitz on Syria’s Collapse
Ep 163: School of War Goes to Israel—Lessons from a Savage Year
Ep 162: Michael Leggiere on Military History on Campus
Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours
Ep 160: Thomas Barfield on Empire and Imperial Strategies Today
Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
Ep 158: Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal on an Economic Strategy for China
Ep 157: Frank Cohn—Veterans Day Special
Ep 156: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Koreans in Russia
Ep 155: Nick Lloyd on World War I’s Eastern Front
Ep 154: Ben Noon on the U.S.-China Chip Wars
Ep 153: Scott Hartwig on the Battle of Antietam
Ep 152: Jacqueline Deal on China’s Strategy
Ep 151: Nicholas Morton on the Crusades
Ep 150: Katherine Kuzminski on the Draft
Ep 149: Mark Dubowitz on the Iran-Israel War
Ep 148: Alex Miller on Battlefield Technology
Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space
Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis
Ep 145: Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli at War
Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2)
Ep 143: Sabin Howard on WWI, Art, and Honoring Veterans
Ep 142: Andrew Roberts Debunks Darryl Cooper on Winston Churchill
Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1)
Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength
Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM
Ep 138: Joshua S. Treviño on the Southern Border Crisis
Ep 137: Richard Frank on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and World War II’s Endgame
Ep 136: Ronald C. White on Joshua Chamberlain
Ep 135: Rich Goldberg on Israel‘s Northern Crisis
Ep 134: Michael Sobolik on China’s Geostrategy
Ep 133: James Holland on World War II in Italy, 1943
Ep 132: Michael Kofman on the Battlefield in Ukraine (War in Ukraine #4)
Ep 131: Thomas Mahnken on Strategic Fallacies (War in Ukraine #3)
Ep 130: John Spencer on Israel’s Unprecedented War (or, Urban Warfare 101)
Ep 129: Frank Gavin on Nuclear Strategy and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #2)
Ep 128: Stephen Kotkin on Russia and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #1)
Ep 127: Robert Blackwill & Richard Fontaine on the Failed Pivot to Asia
Ep 126: Michel Paradis on D-Day and Eisenhower
Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War
Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership
Ep 123: Sergey Radchenko on Soviet Motivations in the Cold War
Ep 122: Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger on a Victory Strategy for China
Ep 121: Andy Lowery on Drones and Directed Energy
Ep 120: Iskander Rehman on the Emperor Tiberius and American Primacy
Ep 119: Yaroslav Trofimov on the War in Ukraine
Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?
Ep 117: Shlomo Brody on the Ethics of War
Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals
Ep 115: Stephen Robinson on the Case against John Boyd
Ep 114: Eric Edelman on the Foundations of Nuclear Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #11)
Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence
Ep 112: Paul Scharre on AI 101
Ep 111: Prit Buttar on the Siege of Leningrad and War in the East
Ep 110: Thomas Mahnken on Net Assessment
Ep 109: John Noonan on Nuclear Weapons and Policy
Ep 108: Donald L. Miller on Masters of the Air
Ep 107: John Orloff on Masters of the Air
Ep 106: John McManus on the U.S. Army’s Pacific War
Ep 105: Dmitry Filipoff on Modern Naval Tactics
Ep 104: Peter Feaver on “Wokeness,” Politics, and the Military
Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony
Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East
Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction
Ep 100: Alexander Mikaberidze on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
Ep 99: Nicholas Morton on the Mongol Invasions
Ep 98: Matthew Waxman on the Israel, Hamas, and the Law of Armed Conflict
Ep 97: Edward Luttwak on the IDF and the War in Israel
Ep 96: Vincent O’Hara and Trent Hone on Naval Combat at Night
Ep 95: Richard Goldberg on the War in Israel & American Strategy
Ep 94: Jonathan Schanzer on the War in Israel & Hamas
Ep 93: Michael Doran on the War in Israel & Ghosts of 1973
Ep 92: Cliff May on Defending Democracies
Ep 91: Paul Rahe on Sparta’s Grand Strategy
Ep 90: Andrew Krepinevich on Military Revolutions
Ep 89: Mick Ryan on Ukraine, Taiwan, and Future War
Ep 88: John H. Maurer on Alfred Thayer Mahan (New Makers of Modern Strategy #10)
Ep 87: Wayne Lee on Native American Warfare
Ep 86: David Betz on Ukraine’s Counteroffensive and Russia’s Defense
Ep 85: Antulio J. Echevarria on Jomini (New Makers of Modern Strategy #9)
Ep 84: Mike Gallagher on the Korean War and Confronting China Today
Ep 84: B. Rivera and M. McGrath on John Boyd
Ep 83: Aaron O’Connell on 'Geopolitics 101'
Ep 82: Charles Edel on John Quincy Adams (New Makers of Modern Strategy #8)
Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ep 80: Holger Afflerbach on How Germany Lost WWI
Ep 79: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s Military
Ep 78: Hew Strachan on Clausewitz (New Makers of Modern Strategy #7)
Ep 77: Iskander Rehman on Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin (New Makers of Modern Strategy #6)
Ep 76: Levi Roach on the Normans
Ep 75: Toshi Yoshihara on Sun Tzu (New Makers of Modern Strategy #5)
Ep 74: Mark Moyar on Vietnam (New Makers of Modern Strategy #4)
Ep 73: Carter Malkasian on Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency (New Makers of Modern Strategy #3)
Ep 72: Matthew Kroenig on Machiavelli (New Makers of Modern Strategy #2)
Ep 71: John Gaddis on Strategy (New Makers of Modern Strategy #1)
Ep 70: Will Scharf on China’s Fentanyl War on America
Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"
Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples
Ep 67: Stephen J. Hadley on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy
Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem
Ep 64: Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan on China’s Three Strategies for Taiwan
Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
Ep 62: Mike Pompeo on American Foreign Policy
Ep 61: Sonny Bunch on War Movies
Ep 60: Marc Hyden on Gaius Marius
Ep 59: James Lacey on Roman Strategy
Ep 58: Philip Taubman on George Shultz
Ep 57: Mike Gallagher on China and the U.S. Military
Ep 56: Ronald H. Spector and the Chaos of Postwar Asia
Ep 55: Myke Cole and the Spartan Myth
Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism
Ep 53: David M. Pritchard on Athens at War
Ep 52: Dr. Michael Livingston on the battle of Crécy
Ep 51: Alexander Mikaberidze on Kutuzov
Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command
Ep 49: William Inboden on Ronald Reagan
Ep 48: Ian Beckett on the Anglo-Zulu War
Ep 47: Senator Tom Cotton on American Foreign Policy
Ep 46: James M. Scott on Curtis LeMay in World War II
Ep 45: Randall Schriver on China
Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff
Ep 43: Eli Lake on the Bush administration in the Middle East
Ep 42: Ian Easton on Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Grand Strategy
Ep 41: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on China
Ep 40: Michael S. Neiberg on Vichy France
Ep 39: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
Ep 38: Ocie Vest on the Marine Corps’ War in Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
Ep 37: Alexander Watson on WWI’s Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe’s Bloodlands
Ep 36: Charlie Laderman on Hitler’s Decision to Declare War on America
Ep 35: Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor on the Battle of Midway
Ep 34: Andrew Corbett on Britain’s Nukes
Ep 33: Steven Pressfield on the Truth about War
Ep 32: Barry S. Strauss on Actium
Ep 31: Rich Goldberg on Economic Sanctions and Financial Warfare
Ep 30: Guy MacLean Rogers on The Jewish Revolt
Ep 29: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2
Ep 28: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2
Ep 27: Fred Kagan on Ukraine II
Ep 26: Andrew Lambert on the Crimean War
Ep. 25: Waller Newell on Putin and Tyranny
Ep. 24: Richard Overy on World War II
Ep. 23: James Holmes on Sea Power
Ep. 22: Jeremy Black on Tank Warfare
Ep. 21: Matthew Kroenig on Ukraine and Putin’s Nuclear Weapons
Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine
Ep. 19: Fred Kagan on Ukraine
Ep. 18: Bruce Jones on Seapower
Ep. 17: Alexander Mikaberidze on Napoleon
Ep. 16: Gerry Roncolato on the U.S. Navy
Ep. 15: Andrew Lambert on Julian Corbett
Ep. 14: Kevin Hymel on General George S. Patton
Ep. 13: Thomas Clavin on Joe Moser
Ep. 12: Hal Brands on the Cold War
Ep. 11: John Matteson on the Civil War's Cultural Impact
Ep. 10: Shane Brennan on Xenophon
Ep. 9: David Stahel on the Eastern Front in WWII
Ep. 8: H.W. Brands on the Patriots and the Loyalists
Ep. 7: John McManus on the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II
Ep. 6: Frank Ledwidge on Airpower
Ep. 5: Wayne Hsieh on Robert E. Lee
Ep. 4: Sean McMeekin on Stalin and World War II
Ep. 3: Andrew Roberts on King George III
Ep. 2: Daniel Bolger on Maurice Rose
Ep. 1: H.R. McMaster on the Gulf War
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