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S4E8: Gustavus Adolphus: Pioneer of Combined Arms Manoeuvre with Professor Gunnar Aselius
The Swedish campaigns in Central Europe in the Thirty Years' War are remembered in folklore for their brutality, for massacres of civilians and 'scorched earth' tactics. And yet, as their leader, King Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden (1594 –
S4E7: Caesar: Rome's Defensive Expansion
Julius Caesar is famous for describing hugely complicated strategic problems, then adding his famous Vini, vidi, vici: 'I came, I saw, I conquered'. But what did his strategic genius consist of? And how did he justify extending the Roman Em
S4E6: Yi Sun-sin: Korea's Greatest Commander
While most of the political and military commanders whom we now call 'great' were often ruthless or megalomaniacs, Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin is remembered not only for his military prowess but also for his integrity and humility. He came to
S4E5: Frederick II of Prussia, The Philosopher King with Dr Adam Storring
Frederick II of Prussia, like the Era of the Enlightenment in which he lived, was torn about warfare: was it to be humanised, or was it to be perfected? As king he favoured the latter, earning the respect of contemporaries as the greatest s
S4E4: Alexander the Great: Son of Zeus with Dr Andrew Fear
Alexander III of Macedon posed as the 'Son of Zeus', but followed the advice of his biological father, King Philip II, to get out of Macedon and "seek a kingdom equal to yourself". Between 336 and 323 BC, Alexander the Great created the lar
S4E3: Shaka Zulu: Africa's Greatest Commander? with Professor John Laband
Shaka Zulu (c. 1787–1828) was the most powerful king in southern Africa during the pre-colonial period. He forged a polity that would become the largest in the region through the ruthless use of his reorganised and loyal army. Initially reg
S4E2: Xerxes: The Persian Empire's Aegean Expansion with Dr John O. Hyland
Dr John O. Hyland joins Paul and Beatrice to discuss fifth-century BC Persian ruler Xerxes I, whose royal progress took him to the Western boundaries of his empire. Xerxes I tried to extend his rule beyond the Aegean, which his father had f
S4E1: Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Master Strategist
The credit for successful military campaigns often goes to the senior commander, when in fact, the brilliance of the operation and the planning happened at much lower levels of the organisation. This is the case with Subotai (1175 – 1248),
S3E12: Petraeus's 'Big Four': Brainstorm, Communicate, Implement, Assess
To conclude Season Three of Talking Strategy, US Army General (ret.) Dr David Petraeus shares with us his philosophy about making good strategy. A scholarly soldier with a long and varied career, he commanded the International Security Assi
S3E11: Raoul Castex: The Servitude of Strategy with Professor Martin Motte
Raoul Castex (1878–1968) was an active naval officer who theorised widely on strategy. As an advocate of 'jointness', he took a comprehensive approach rather than relying on any one service. A child of the predominant geopolitical fashions
S3E10: Mao Zedong's Strategy for Revolutionary War with Professor Steve Tsang
Professor Steve Tsang joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss the founding father of the Chinese People's Republic, Mao Zedong. Mao was both a Leninist strategic theorist and the leader of the Chinese Communists in their fight to overthrow the C
S3E9: Sir Michael Quinlan and British Nuclear Strategy with Dr Tanya Ogilvie-White & Dr Kristan Stoddart
With a serious commitment to the 'Just War' tradition, Sir Michael Quinlan (1930–2009), chief British nuclear strategist of the late 1970s and 1980s, helped to construct the complex edifice of the British and NATO nuclear deterrence posture
S3E8: Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means: Dietrich von Bülow with Dr Arthur Kuhle
Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow (1757–1807) was called 'everything from a conceited crank to the founder of modern military science' (R R Palmer). Probably the last Prussian strategist to sympathise with the French Revolution, he had a keen int
S3E7: T.E. Lawrence: Understanding Irregular Warfare's Cultural and Human Terrain with Dr Robert Johnson
Lawrence of Arabia is legendary status, Britain's most romantic strategic theorist-cum-practitioner; as 'al-Lorans', he won the hearts of many Arabs in their fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Dr Rob
S3E6: Net Assessment as a Tool of Strategy: Andrew Marshall, with Dr Thomas G Mahnken
Foreign policy strategist Andrew Marshall had a career that spanned seven decades from the late 1940s. He was hailed by a former KGB officer as 'the grey cardinal, the éminence grise' of the US revolution of military affairs, and as 'the gr
S3E5: Kautilya: India's Forerunner to Machiavelli? with Professor Kaushik Roy
Kautilya lived in India from 375 to 283 BC. He ranks alongside Sun Tzu as one of the great early sages who wrote about the relations between polities, and thus also about wars between them. Kaushik Roy, Guru Nanak Chair Professor at Jadavpu
S3E4: Aube and the Jeune Ecole: Strategy for the Weak
Admiral Arne Røksund joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss a set of French strategists collectively referred to as the Jeune Ecole, 'the young school'. The Jeune Ecole is considered the counterpoint to many battle-obsessed land strategists and
S3E3: John Warden: Lord of the Five Rings with Col Dr John Andreas Olsen
John Warden III was an exceptionally influential air power strategist whose name is inextricably connected with Operation Desert Storm, the 1991 coalition campaign to free Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion. We discuss his influence with Colon
S3E2: C E Callwell: Small Wars and Integrated Sea-Land Operations
Historian Dr Daniel Whittingham joins Beatrice and Paul for a conversation about Major-General Sir Charles Edward Callwell (1859–1928). An unabashed British imperialist, Callwell's views are strongly reflected in his writings on Small Wars,
S3E1: Jomini: Selling Napoleon's System with Professor Antulio Echevarria
Antoine-Henri Jomini was the strategist who anticipated Napoleon's movements – and the general who betrayed the emperor by defecting to the Russians for a better position. He was among the most widely read strategists of land warfare in the
S2E12: A Practitioner's View: Competitive Strategy with Mick Ryan
Recently retired Major General Mick Ryan sits down with Beatrice and Paul for the Series 2 finale of Talking Strategy. Mick is an experienced strategist, having worked at high levels in this capacity in the Australian and US militaries. Dur
S2E11: General André Beaufre: The Two Axes of Deterrence with Brigadier General Dr Hervé Pierre
Brigadier General Dr Hervé Pierre joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss the 20th century French strategist General André Beaufre, who defined strategy as 'the art of applying force so that it makes the most effective contribution towards achie
S2E10: The Captain who Taught Generals: Basil Liddell Hart
Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was described by President John F. Kennedy as the "captain who taught generals". Dr Bradley Potter joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss Liddell Hart, captain of the First World War who took to writing about war
Bonus: Reflections on a Pedagogy for Strategy with Emilie Cleret
In this festive special, Beatrice and Paul reflect on the lessons from their meanderings across the strategic landscape over the past 20 episodes of Talking Strategy. What is very clear is that, ultimately, commanders must still be able to
S2E9: Gerald of Wales: Medieval Adaptation to Terrain and Enemy with Professor Matthew Strickland
Professor Matthew Strickland joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss Gerald of Wales, royal clerk and chaplain to King Henry II of England in 1184. In a time when the Norman rulers of the British Isles relied on clerics as civil servants, Gerald
S2E8: Thinking the Unthinkable: The Nuclear Strategy of Herman Kahn with Dr Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Dr Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss prominent futurist and founder of the Hudson Institute Herman Kahn. Herman Kahn (1922–1983) came across to some as a 'roly poly, second-strike Father Christmas', but to most of hi
S2E7: The French Counterinsurgency School: Roger Trinquier and David Galula with Dr Elie Tenenbaum
Dr Élie Tenenbaum joins Beatrice and Paul to discuss two French strategists who focused strongly on the political and psychological warfare element of both insurgencies and counterinsurgency operations (COIN). Roger Trinquier (1908–1986) an
S2E6: Arming the Citizens: Machiavelli's Quest for Virtue
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) had a rocky career, with great ups when he had influential administrative positions in his city and great downs when he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured. He published his Art of War to great acclaim, y
S2E5: Alexander Svechin: Inventor of Soviet Operational Art with Professor Gudrun Persson
Aleksandr Andreevich Svechin was an ethnic Russian born in Odessa in 1878. He became an officer of the imperial Russian army and then of the Red Army, where he rose to the rank of general and wrote a definitive manual on strategy. A 'Clause
S2E4: Ibn Khaldun and Early Muslim Strategic Thought with Professor Malik Mutfi
Professor Malik Mufti, a specialist on the politics and international relations of the Middle East, discusses two medieval Muslim works of exemplary scholarship and erudition. Like many other Muslim works of the Middle Ages, the two works w
