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A collection of discussions with those in the Profession of Arms that tries to understand the issues around how to fight, and succeed, against adversaries in the 2020s. We pose the questions...
WWoW groupie Emilie Cleret from France's École de Guerre challenges podcast host Peter Roberts over his methodology, principles and the basi...
UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace talks to Peter Roberts about spending trends, allies, terrorism, campaigning, budgets and refo...
There is a lot going on with nuclear weapons at the moment - from UK and German announcements, changes in the way China is thinking about nu...
From Sun Tzu to Admiral Hyman Rickover, great military leaders really understood logistics and supply. Yet by outsourcing so much to industr...
Peter talks to the latest RUSI recruit and People's Liberation Army researcher Sam Cranny Evans about the professionalisation and modernisat...
When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Moscow annexed 20% of Georgia's sovereign land space using traditional military force. Over the subsequ...
Peter Roberts talks to Professor Alessio Patalano, doyen of the development of naval warfare and strategy at King's College London. They dis...
The experience of children in war is getting worse, from mental abuse to physical torture, kidnap, rape and being forcibly inducted into mil...
Veterans, families, casualties, death and the repatriation of casualties' remains feature as key themes in a discussion between conflict arc...
Peter Roberts talks to RUSI Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology Justin Bronk about the realities of aircraft availability for contem...
In facing down China, Australia is having to make some audacious decisions. Australian defence expert Malcolm Davis from ASPI talks to Peter...
US Naval War College Professor of Strategy James C Holmes contends that navies are going to have to fight for command of the sea over the co...
Russian theories of war and warfare have never been one-dimensional. In conversation with Peter Roberts, Norwegian researcher Prof Katarzyna...
As Western militaries transition their forces towards a posture of great power contests, there will be a temptation to gloss over the last 2...
Peter Roberts talks to the doyen of urban warfare research, Prof John Spencer, about why strategies of 'avoid and bypass' for urban conflict...
Dr Heather Venable, associate professor at the US Air Command and Staff College, offers advice to students in professional military educatio...
More than 110 states have now signed the Safe Schools Declaration about protecting educational establishments, students and teachers in war...
Politician, scholar, diplomat and sometime soldier Rory Stewart joins Peter Roberts for a post-mortem of the West's failed campaign in Afgha...
In analysing the myths of a Western way of war, historian of colonial warfare and iconoclast Professor Tarak Barkawi from the London School...
In co-operation with the Irregular Warfare Initiative of the Modern War Institute, Peter Roberts sat down for a conversation with Chief of S...
Professor Eliot Cohen, the doyen of grand strategy, talks to Peter Roberts about how the Western idea of war and warfare has changed to one...
Dr Jenni Cole, biological anthropologist and public health policy guru, talks to Peter Roberts about pandemics, climate change and civil def...
Opening Season 3 of the podcast, Peter Roberts talks to General (retd) James Mattis, US Marine Corps, former US Secretary of Defense, about...
WWOW host Peter Roberts covers the five big themes of Season 2: The American Way of War – what went wrong and course corrections; continuity...
RUSI Land Warfare scholar Jack Watling talks to Peter Roberts about the conclusions from his paper on the challenges facing Special Forces o...
Many governments watched the display of US military power in 1991, and again in 2003, and were awestruck. For some, this was a wake-up call...
The Russian military's build-up around Ukraine between February and April 2021 was the topic of much media speculation. Russia analyst Micha...
Emma Sky, Political Advisor to US Generals Odierno and Petraeus between 2007 and 2010, talks to Peter Roberts about what we need to learn fr...
As modern military systems increasingly rely on software coding to achieve virtual effects, the question of how one knows whether these weap...
The 18th Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, talks to Peter Roberts about how to deal with tensions and fricti...
Former US Under Secretary for Defence for Policy Michèle Flournoy talks to Peter Roberts about technology, concepts, young minds and competi...
Peter Maurer, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, sees no distinction between how the West and other belligerents...
The cycle of "old wars" between nation states, followed by revolutionary wars and culminating during the 20th century into wars between comm...
The truth universally acknowledged is that Western militaries seem to deliberately discard useful experience faster than they can accumulate...
Western military personnel often feel that laws restrict the way they can undertake warfare. Dr Janina Dill, Oxford University's expert in w...
Since war is a reciprocal relationship with the enemy, the idea of a Western Way of Warfare which is detached or abstract from the human adv...
If the Greeks invented a national style of fighting (according to Herodotus), which the French followed (with élan and martial virtues), and...
Manoeuvre warfare, the manoeuvrist approach, and manoeuverism as military concepts have been revered by Western militaries for half a centur...
Peter Roberts talks to veteran Welsh politician and former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon about her reflections...
Since the Ukraine war of 2014, most Western governments have classified any hostile challenge as 'hybrid', 'sub-threshold', or as actions be...
It is common to consider nuclear doctrine as a fixed, unmoving and largely successful element of the Western Way of War. Dr Heather Williams...
Peter Roberts talks to former US Ambassador to Iraq Paul Crocker about the foreign and security policy assumptions of the current Biden admi...
Technological change is creating an inflection point for Western states that will have radical implications on how they will fight in the fu...
Acknowledging the power of innovation as a driver for building a competitive edge in warfare, new defence policies in the UK and US since 20...
In this bumper episode, General David Petraeus talks to Peter Roberts about handling national agendas in coalition management, command compr...
Show host Peter Roberts picks some highlights from Season One of the show, with more than a nod to divergent thinking, challenging orthodoxy...
'Disruptive technology' has surpassed 'innovation' as the de rigour buzzword for policy documents, and a mandatory phrase for successful fun...
US military power since 1980 has been one of historical significance. The doctrine of rapid manoeuvre in the deep battle space, by elite arm...
Above all other competitors, Russia is the pre-eminent authority in Electronic Warfare. The US military is trying to catch up with their gen...
Historically, the British have been averse to funding a standing army, and perhaps that feeling endures today, in the belief that it is poss...