Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPaddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
Episode 264
Amid the fanfare around AI and autonomous weapons, decision-makers - both military and political - are imagining an augmented future for warfare that…
1 year, 6 months ago
Eric Min, "Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 262
Of all interstate conflicts across the last two centuries, two-thirds have ended through negotiated agreement. Wartime diplomacy is thus commonly see…
1 year, 6 months ago
Frances Yaping Wang, "The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 263
Why do nations actively publicize previously overlooked disputes? And why does this domestic mobilization sometimes fail to result in aggressive poli…
1 year, 6 months ago
David Dean Barrett, "140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon" (Diversion Books, 2020)
Episode 261
During the closing months of World War II, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. While …
1 year, 7 months ago
Kornel Chang, "A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 231
Four decades of Japanese colonialism in Korea ended abruptly in August 1945. It took three weeks for U.S. troops to arrive, which started almost thre…
1 year, 7 months ago
Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Episode 383
The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by …
1 year, 7 months ago
Oleksandr Melnyk, "World War II as an Identity Project: Historicism, Legitimacy Contests, and the (Re-) Construction of Political Communities in Ukraine, 1939–1946" (Ibidem, 2022)
Episode 1374
World War II as an Identity Project (Ibidem, 2022) explores the relationship between history, legitimacy, and violence in the building and breaking o…
1 year, 7 months ago
David Burke, "Kitson's Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland" (Mercier Press, 2021)
Episode 76
The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom …
1 year, 7 months ago
Jim Storr, "War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2025)
Episode 260
What can we learn from war, and warfare, in the twentieth century? What observations and deductions can we make, and what lessons can we draw? ‘War a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025)
Episode 258
One historian’s journey to find the end of the Civil War—and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of war itself and how societie…
1 year, 7 months ago