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WWoW groupie Emilie Cleret from France's École de Guerre challenges podcast host Peter Roberts over his methodology, principles and the basi...
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Western Way of War
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...
Episodes
20 of 78 episodesBen Wallace: Not Tinkering Around the Edges
UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace talks to Peter Roberts about spending trends, allies, terrorism, campaigning, budgets and refo...
Dr Matthew Harries: Matters of nuclear weapons
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...
Joann Robertson: Rethinking Logistics
From Sun Tzu to Admiral Hyman Rickover, great military leaders really understood logistics and supply. Yet by outsourcing so much to industr...
Sam Cranny Evans: Chinese Ground Forces
Peter talks to the latest RUSI recruit and People's Liberation Army researcher Sam Cranny Evans about the professionalisation and modernisat...
Natia Seskuria: Russian Borderisation Tactics
When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, Moscow annexed 20% of Georgia's sovereign land space using traditional military force. Over the subsequ...
Alessio Patalano: The Evolution of Warfare at Sea
Peter Roberts talks to Professor Alessio Patalano, doyen of the development of naval warfare and strategy at King's College London. They dis...
Kafia Omar: A Deadly Decade for Children
The experience of children in war is getting worse, from mental abuse to physical torture, kidnap, rape and being forcibly inducted into mil...
Sarah Ashbridge: Are We Proud of the Contract Between the Military and Society?
Veterans, families, casualties, death and the repatriation of casualties' remains feature as key themes in a discussion between conflict arc...
Justin Bronk: An Unhealthy Dependence on Air Power
Peter Roberts talks to RUSI Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology Justin Bronk about the realities of aircraft availability for contem...
Malcolm Davis: Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey
In facing down China, Australia is having to make some audacious decisions. Australian defence expert Malcolm Davis from ASPI talks to Peter...
Prof Jim Holmes: There is a Problem with Western Navies
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...
Katarzyna Zysk: Russian Creativity and Risk-Taking
Russian theories of war and warfare have never been one-dimensional. In conversation with Peter Roberts, Norwegian researcher Prof Katarzyna...
Anant Mishra: Street Smart Warfare
As Western militaries transition their forces towards a posture of great power contests, there will be a temptation to gloss over the last 2...
John Spencer: Urban Warfare as the Great Leveller
Peter Roberts talks to the doyen of urban warfare research, Prof John Spencer, about why strategies of 'avoid and bypass' for urban conflict...
Heather Venable: Gen Z - The Best Tacticians in History?
Dr Heather Venable, associate professor at the US Air Command and Staff College, offers advice to students in professional military educatio...
Minogue and Haines: Education in Conflict Zones
More than 110 states have now signed the Safe Schools Declaration about protecting educational establishments, students and teachers in war...
Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan
Politician, scholar, diplomat and sometime soldier Rory Stewart joins Peter Roberts for a post-mortem of the West's failed campaign in Afgha...
Tarak Barkawi: The Vocation of Arms
In analysing the myths of a Western way of war, historian of colonial warfare and iconoclast Professor Tarak Barkawi from the London School...
General James McConville: Not Fighting the Last War Better
In co-operation with the Irregular Warfare Initiative of the Modern War Institute, Peter Roberts sat down for a conversation with Chief of S...