New Books in Military History

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The War on Terror with Andrew Thomson and Rubrick Biegon (Agenda Publishing, 2025)

The War on Terror remained an enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. The War on Terror(Agenda Publishing, 2025), by Professors Andrew Thomson and Rubrick Biegon, positions the War on Terror within the broader context of Col... more

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Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War with Jeongmin Kim (Stanford UP, 2026)

Black Market Intimacies: The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War (Stanford UP, 2026) reveals how illicit exchanges of money and commodities involving sexual encounters between Korean and Japanese women and US soldiers provided the material ... more

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Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)

Wartime leaders should understand the link between violent means and political ends. They should also have a sense of how strategic decisions will affect the post-war peace. Yet they often fail to make these connections. Mistaking strategy for grand ... more

28 Oct 2026 • 42 min

AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)

Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex (Princeton University Press, 2025), he argues that AI is c... more

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Joshua Rovner

Professor of International Relations at American University and Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution

American University

Episode: Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)

Anthony King

Professor of War Studies and Director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

Episode: AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)

Vivian Y. Choi

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Head of Department at St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College

Episode: Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025)

Tejasvi Nagaraja

Assistant professor of history at Cornell University in the ILR School and author of Troop Movements

Cornell University

Episode: Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II with Tejasvi Nagaraja (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Matthew J. Larson

19th-century American historian specializing in the Civil War era.

Episode: From Blood to Ink: How the Press Covered the Gettysburg Campaign with Matthew J. Larson (U Georgia Press, 2026)

Costanza Musu

Professor of International Relations and Director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Episode: Art for War: Heritage Looting, Blood Antiquities, and the International Fight Against Terrorism Financing with Costanza Musu (Stanford UP, 2026)

Simon Waring

PhD candidate at the Royal Military College of Canada researching German-Soviet operations on the Eastern Front

Royal Military College of Canada

Episode: Defeat at the Dnepr: The XLVIII Panzerkorps Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943 with Simon Waring (Casemate, 2026)

Danny Orbach

Professor of military history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Episode: Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality with Danny Orbach (Hurst, 2026)

Prit Buttar

Author of Into the Reich, Eastern Front historian

Osprey Publishing

Episode: Into the Reich: The Red Army’s Advance to the Oder in 1945 with Prit Buttar (Osprey, 2025)

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Amy Chavez

Host of The Books on Asia Podcast; affiliation appears with Books on Asia / New Books Network

Miranda Melcher

Host of The New Books Network; appears across multiple episodes; affiliation The New Books Network

Nicholas Gordon

Host of The Asian Review of Books Podcast; in partnership with The New Books Network

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4.1 out of 5 stars from 261 ratings

You’re political
This isn’t military history, this is simply, and misleadingly, a podcast to espouse liberal and progressive ideology and its anti American and anti Republican (sans objectivity) in the guise of MH.
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Amdyfyn
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Trash podcast
If you like leftist pseudo science you will love this. The one I’m listening to is equating Hitler to Lincoln.
Zero stars.
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The American Way!
United States2 years ago
Great episode!
On, Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
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another RJF
United States2 years ago
Great Podcast! But sound quality …
Unfortunately the sound quality doesn’t match the content quality.
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Caro Willeke
Germany2 years ago
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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Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)

Q: How do we separate the Spartan Grand Strategy from the slavery system? Is the idea of security close to home a strategic choice, or a requirement imposed by the system of helot slavery?

Rovner says Sparta's restraint was both a strategic choice and a structural necessity. Its army protected its land dominance, while avoiding extended campaigns that could leave the helots an opportunity to revolt.

Strategy and Grand Strategy with Joshua Rovner (Routledge, 2025)

Q: What is the difference in your mind between a routine security process and an emergency posture? What needs to happen for some of this original emergency posture to be scaled back?

Rovner says the post-9/11 counterterrorism campaign has shifted toward air policing, using intelligence and limited operations to keep threats manageable rather than achieve a declared victory. Scaling it back is a political decision shaped by leaders' risk tolerance, and he expects intelligence-led operations to persist.

Defeat at the Dnepr: The XLVIII Panzerkorps Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943 with Simon Waring (Casemate, 2026)

Q: But eventually, the offensive runs out of steam. What were some factors that led eventually to the Germans to call off the counteroffensive around this sector?

Soviet reinforcements established successive defensive lines, while Soviet units recovered enough to resist the German advance. Threats to the corps' northern flank and supply routes, alongside the defenses in front of it, led German commanders to end the counterattack.

Defeat at the Dnepr: The XLVIII Panzerkorps Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943 with Simon Waring (Casemate, 2026)

Q: So what was the overall German plan for this counter-offensive operation at the Dnepr and around the Kiev sector?

The German response was improvised after the Soviet offensive captured Kiev and broke through the front. The initial priority was to blunt Soviet advances toward key logistics hubs and restore the Fourth Panzer Army's front, rather than immediately retake Kiev.

Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II with Tejasvi Nagaraja (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Q: What grievances motivated this strike wave and where did it come from?

After the defeat of Germany and Japan, workers and service members pressed for labor and racial justice and challenged British, French, and emerging U.S. imperial power. The movement included industrial strikes and demobilization protests across the United States and allied territories.

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