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136 - Marines vs Japanese: Brutal Battles for Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo
Season 1 Episode 136
This is the second episode of our Guadalcanal series with historian and author Dave Holland.
Shoestring invasion planning
Koro rehearsals fiasco
Risk…
10 months ago
135 - How the Marines Prepared for Guadalcanal | Operation Watchtower Explained
Season 1 Episode 135
This is the first in a major series of podcasts looking at the Battles of Guadalcanal. This is an interview with Dave Holland.
This episode look…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
134 - Preparing Today's Armies for Tomorrow's Wars: Battlefield Innovation and Disruption
Season 1 Episode 134
This is the final episode of three in our series from our interview with Retired Colonel John Antal discussing his research into contemporary com…
11 months, 1 week ago
133 - Kill webs and super swarms - building survivable CPs for decision superiority
Season 1 Episode 133
This is the second episode of our interview with Retired Colonel John Antal discussing his research into contemporary combat and how technology is …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
132 - Ten Battlefield Disruptors for Tomorrow's Wars
Season 1 Episode 132
How is the modern battlefield changing?
What role is technology like Artificial Intelligence, drones, precision strike and electronic warfare changin…
1 year ago
131 - Amphibious Ambitions and Island Defeats - How Kinman and Hainan shaped China's Navy
Season 1 Episode 131
This is the second of a two-part series looking at the origin story of the PLA Navy. This episode looks at the crucial Kinmen and Hainan Islands cam…
1 year, 1 month ago
130 - From River Crossings to Amphibious Operations - How the PLA Built a Navy from scratch and learned littoral manoeuvre
Season 1 Episode 130
1 year, 1 month ago
129 - Slim in Burma - Innovation, Air Power and Special Forces
Season 1 Episode 129
How did Field Marshall Slim innovate in the Burma Campaign? This is a look at military innovation through necessity that developed key capabil…
1 year, 1 month ago
128 - Rebuilding an Army: Morale, Leadership, Training and Mission Command in the 14th Army with Slim
Season 1 Episode 128
How did Slim rebuild the 14th Army after it's 1,000 mile withdrawal from Burma?
We look at how lessons were learnt and doctrine was developed to …
1 year, 2 months ago
127 - The General who wouldn't quit: Slim and the longest retreat
Season 1 Episode 127
The withdrawal from Burma was almost 1,000 miles in 100 days and yet Slim, as commander of Burma Corps, maintained his optimism throughout the opera…
1 year, 2 months ago