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Talking Strategy — 101 episodes
S6E22: Delivering National Security Strategies
S6E21: Dr Jack Watling on Ukrainian Adaptation to War
S6E20: Preparing for War: Adaptable Forces and Societies
S6E19: Adversarial Strategy: Russia's Preparations for a Long War
S6E18: Bullion to Bullets: Mobilising the Financial Markets
S6E17: Industrial Mobilisation: Harnessing the Capacity of Defence Primes Andrea Thompson
S6E16: Harnessing Disruptors in the Defence Industrial Ecosystem: Anduril Industries
S6E15: Integrating Today's Forces for Air and Missile Defence
S6E14: Force Integration in 1940: Dowding's Air Defence System
S6E13: Transforming Poland's Military: General Rajmund Andrzejczak
S6E12: The Elder Moltke: Preparing for Victory in 1800s Prussia
S6E11: Finland's Comprehensive Security Model
S6E10: Britain's Preparation for War: Professor Sir Hew Strachan
S6E9: The Iron Chancellor: Otto von Bismarck's Unification of Germany
S6E8: Prioritising Innovation: Creating a Secure and Resilient Ecosystem
S6E7: Strategic Transformation of the Army: General Sir Nigel Bagnall
S6E6: Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson: Building a Warrior Culture
S6E5: Strategy Amidst Complexity: Gen.(retd) Lori Robinson
S6E4: US Cold War Endgame Strategy: Zbigniew Brzezinski, with Edward Luce
S6E3: Lord Mervyn King: Effective Strategy for Radical Uncertainty
S6E2: Europe's Security: Squeezed Between Russia and the US?
S6E1: Project Solarium: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Approach to Strategy Making
S5E21: Hero of a Thousand Faces - Reflections on Strategy and Leadership
S5E20: The Primacy of Culture and Leadership in Strategic Success, with Khoi Tu
S5E19: Thucydides: A Revolution in Strategic Thinking
S5E18: George C Marshall: Strategic Planning for War and Peace
S5E17: Giuseppe Garibaldi: 'The Only Hero the World Needs'
S5E16: Cyrus the Great: Inventing Empire and Universal Monarchy
S5E15: And then what? Thinking Strategy, with Baroness Ashton of Upholland
S5E14: Abdul Haris Nasution: Insurgent Founder of the Indonesian Army
S5E13: Modernising the Royal Navy: Admiral Lord Fisher RN
S5E12: Toussaint Louverture and the Strategy of Dynamic Adaptation with Professor Charles Forsdick
S5E11: Jean Monnet and the Strategy of International Defence Cooperation
S5E10: Creating Destruction: US Industrial Mobilisation in the Second World War
S5E9: Empress Matilda: Chess Grandmaster of Siege Warfare with Dr Catherine Hanley
S5E8: Transforming a Nation: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
S5E7: H.R. McMaster on National Security Strategy Making
S5E6: Trenchard and the Royal Air Force: Creation, Innovation and Power with Dr Harry Raffal
S5E5: Santa Cruz De Marcenado - Spain's Clausewitz
S5E4: Turning Around a Defeated Army: Field Marshall William Slim, with Dr Robert Lyman MBE
S5E3: Katsu Kaishū and the Foundations of the Modern Japanese Navy
S5E2: Radical Reform of the US Marine Corps: General Alfred Mason Gray
S5E1: Leading a Defence Startup: NATO's First Secretary General, Lord Ismay
S4E21: Strategy's Human Dimension, with Baroness Neville-Jones
S4E20: Moshe Dayan, Master of Emergent Strategy? With Professor Eitan Shamir
S4E19: Arthur Tedder: A Coalition Strategist of War and Warfare with Air Marshal Edward Stringer
S4E18: Qasim Soleimani and the Strategy of Militant Proxies with Dr Afshon Ostovar
S4E17: José de San Martín: the Hannibal of Latin America? with Lieutenant General Diego Suñer
S4E16: Alanbrooke, Churchill's Right-Hand General with Dr Andrew Sangster
S4E15: Generals Lee and Grant: Great Strategists of the American Civil War with Dr Christian Keller
S4E14: Lord Peach: Evolving, Adopting and Adapting Alliance Strategy
S4E13: Sergey Gorshkov, Architect of the Soviet Navy with Captain (ret.) Dr Kevin Rowlands
S4E12: Tecumseh: America's First Whole-of-Society Strategy with Dr Kori Schake
S4E11: Napoleon Bonaparte: Soldier, Strategist, Emperor with Professor Alan Forrest
S4E10: Michiel de Ruyter: The Modest Admiral Who Kept the English at Bay with Dr David 'J.D.' Davis
S4E9: Catherine the Great: Russia's Black Sea Expansion
S4E8: Gustavus Adolphus: Pioneer of Combined Arms Manoeuvre with Professor Gunnar Aselius
S4E7: Caesar: Rome's Defensive Expansion
S4E6: Yi Sun-sin: Korea's Greatest Commander
S4E5: Frederick II of Prussia, The Philosopher King with Dr Adam Storring
S4E4: Alexander the Great: Son of Zeus with Dr Andrew Fear
S4E3: Shaka Zulu: Africa's Greatest Commander? with Professor John Laband
S4E2: Xerxes: The Persian Empire's Aegean Expansion with Dr John O. Hyland
S4E1: Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Master Strategist
S3E12: Petraeus's 'Big Four': Brainstorm, Communicate, Implement, Assess
S3E11: Raoul Castex: The Servitude of Strategy with Professor Martin Motte
S3E10: Mao Zedong's Strategy for Revolutionary War with Professor Steve Tsang
S3E9: Sir Michael Quinlan and British Nuclear Strategy with Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White & Dr Kristan Stoddart
S3E8: Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means: Dietrich von Bülow with Dr Arthur Kuhle
S3E7: T.E. Lawrence: Understanding Irregular Warfare's Cultural and Human Terrain with Dr Robert Johnson
S3E6: Net Assessment as a Tool of Strategy: Andrew Marshall, with Dr Thomas G Mahnken
S3E5: Kautilya: India's Forerunner to Machiavelli? with Professor Kaushik Roy
S3E4: Aube and the Jeune Ecole: Strategy for the Weak
S3E3: John Warden: Lord of the Five Rings with Col Dr John Andreas Olsen
S3E2: C E Callwell: Small Wars and Integrated Sea-Land Operations
S3E1: Jomini: Selling Napoleon's System with Professor Antulio Echevarria
S2E12: A Practitioner's View: Competitive Strategy with Mick Ryan
S2E11: General André Beaufre: The Two Axes of Deterrence with Brigadier General Dr Hervé Pierre
S2E10: The Captain who Taught Generals: Basil Liddell Hart
Bonus: Reflections on a Pedagogy for Strategy with Emilie Cleret
S2E9: Gerald of Wales: Medieval Adaptation to Terrain and Enemy with Professor Matthew Strickland
S2E8: Thinking the Unthinkable: The Nuclear Strategy of Herman Kahn with Dr Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
S2E7: The French Counterinsurgency School: Roger Trinquier and David Galula with Dr Elie Tenenbaum
S2E6: Arming the Citizens: Machiavelli's Quest for Virtue
S2E5: Alexander Svechin: Inventor of Soviet Operational Art with Professor Gudrun Persson
S2E4: Ibn Khaldun and Early Muslim Strategic Thought with Professor Malik Mutfi
S2E3: Giulio Douhet: Targeting Civilians from the Air, with Colonel Dr Stephen Renner
S2E2: Neptune's Prophet: Alfred Thayer Mahan with Cdr Dr Benjamin Armstrong
S2E1: Sun Tzu – Classical Chinese Strategic Thought with Dr Peter Lorge
S1E12: A Practitioner's Perspective: Creating a National Security Strategy with Lord Peter Ricketts
S1E11: Thomas Schelling: Nobel Economist Turned Nuclear Strategist with Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman
S1E10: Christine de Pizan: Strategic Precepts for the Prince with Professor (em.) Françoise Le Saux
S1E9: Colin S Gray, Strategic Culture, and What is Good Enough with Dr Jeannie Johnson
S1E8: Old Strategic Thinkers for a Neo-Imperial Russia: Leer and Messner
S1E7: Beyond the OODA Loop: John Boyd with Commodore Prof Frans Osinga
S1E6: Clausewitz: The Father of Strategic Studies with Professor Beatrice Heuser
S1E5: Admiral Liu Huaqing and China's Island Chain Strategy
S1E4: Leo VI (the Wise) and the Beginning of Western Strategic Thinking
S1E3: War and the French Enlightenment: Comte de Guibert
S1E2: German Land Warfare Strategy at the Turn of the 20th Century
S1E1: Sir Julian Corbett and the British Way of War with Professor Andrew Lambert