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Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)

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Erik Lin-Greenberg

Professor in the Political Science Department

MIT

Episode: Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)

David Nasaw

Professor of History and author of The Wounded Generation

Formerly at the City University of New York

Episode: David Nasaw, "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" (Penguin, 2025)

Dr. Charlotte Macdonald

Professor Emerita at Tehiringa Waka, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand

Victoria University of Wellington

Episode: Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

Dr. Beau Cleland

Assistant Professor of History at the University of Calgary, formerly a soldier in the US Army

University of Calgary

Episode: Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

Henry Rausch

Author of 'Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War'

Episode: Henry Rausch, "Submerged: Life on a Fast Attack Submarine in the Last Days of the Cold War" (Independently Published, 2024)

Dr. Jonathan Jones

Historian of the US Civil War and Medicine

James Madison University

Episode: Jonathan S. Jones, "Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis" (UNC Press, 2025)

Dr. Marc Sommers

Long-time researcher, writer, consultant, and former teacher

University of Georgia Press, Author

Episode: Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)

James Lacey

Author of the book Rome, Strategy of Empire and military strategist

Marine Corps War College

Episode: James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Jochen Hellbeck

German historian specializing in modern Russia and World War II

Rutgers University

Episode: Jochen Hellbeck, "World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews" (Penguin Group, 2025)

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Dr. Miranda Melcher

Dr. Miranda Melcher is involved in various capacities within the New Books Network and hosts discussions with scholars on their published research and related topics.

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If you like leftist pseudo science you will love this. The one I’m listening to is equating Hitler to Lincoln.
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Great episode!
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another RJF
United Statesa year ago
Great Podcast! But sound quality …
Unfortunately the sound quality doesn’t match the content quality.
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Caro Willeke
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A Wasted Opportunity on a Timely Topic
This is a very complex topic, and I appreciate the author’s attempt to distill it into a 25-minute excerpt. Like the scholars cited in the research, Robinson’s work should be given a prominent place in mid- and senior-level PME.
The interviewer did a poor job of eliciting detailed answers. In fact, she sounded by turns bored or patronizing, and was either out of her depth or so inattentive that she bungled Robinson’s full name at the end. Not nearly the best episode I’ve heard, but I will check... more
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Vanguard06
United States2 years ago
Get an interviewer who can speak ...
... the host has a bizarre accent that sounds like Peter Sellers as "Dr. Strangelove" but to make it worse makes awful, weird grunting sounds. He also interrupts as does not give the interviewee enough time to speak. Great books, great topics but the host makes the podcast unlistenable.
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Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)

Q: Why do you think wartime innovation is more important to study?

Wartime is when militaries face their most intense challenges, providing clearer case studies for examining military innovation and adaptation.

Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)

Q: How do you define innovation and successful adaptation?

Innovation is defined as a new operational mode that leads to success on the battlefield, while successful adaptation means being able to mitigate losses and counter the opponent's innovations effectively.

Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)

Q: Why did you write Innovation and Adaptation in War? And who is the target reader?

I wanted to understand why innovative militaries sometimes did not win, how military adaptation impacts conflict outcomes, and to examine the relationship between technology and military organization.

Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)

Q: Why was Roosevelt so invested in the concept or the idea that Chiang Kai-shek's China was a great power?

Roosevelt believed China could become a great power and emphasized the need to ally with it to prevent the creation of an exclusive sphere of influence by the Japanese.

Tim Bouverie, "Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World" (Crown, 2025)

Q: What would you say then was the agreed Anglo-French policy in terms of how they envisioned winning the war?

The strategy was defensive, based on the belief that the British and French would outlast the Germans due to their larger resources, but it was ultimately flawed.

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