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Western Way of War

Western Way of War

44 episodes

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 as whether a single Western Way of Warfare (how Western militaries fight) has been successful, whether it remains fit for task today, and how it might need to adapt in the future? It is complemented by the ‘Adversarial Studies’ project that looks at how adversaries fight. The views or statements expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by RUSI employees are those of the employees and do not necessarily reflect the view of RUSI.

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So What Did We Learn, if Anything?

Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 9:23 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 54 seconds

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Ben Wallace: Not Tinkering Around the Edges

Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 56 seconds

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Dr Matthew Harries: Matters of nuclear weapons

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 12:42 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 17 seconds

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Joann Robertson: Rethinking Logistics

Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 10:02 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 32 seconds

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Sam Cranny Evans: Chinese Ground Forces

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 10:23 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds

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Natia Seskuria: Russian Borderisation Tactics

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 1:13 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 42 seconds

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Alessio Patalano: The Evolution of Warfare at Sea

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 11:07 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds

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Kafia Omar: A Deadly Decade for Children

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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Sarah Ashbridge: Are We Proud of the Contract Between the Military and Society?

Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 12:18 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 33 seconds

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Justin Bronk: An Unhealthy Dependence on Air Power

Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 1:23 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds

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Malcolm Davis: Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 9:53 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

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Prof Jim Holmes: There is a Problem with Western Navies

Published: Sept. 30, 2021, 9:50 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds

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Katarzyna Zysk: Russian Creativity and Risk-Taking

Published: Sept. 23, 2021, 10:55 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds

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Anant Mishra: Street Smart Warfare

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 7:49 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 49 seconds

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John Spencer: Urban Warfare as the Great Leveller

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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Heather Venable: Gen Z - The Best Tacticians in History?

Published: Sept. 2, 2021, 10:37 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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Minogue and Haines: Education in Conflict Zones

Published: Aug. 26, 2021, 7:20 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 24 seconds

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Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan

Published: Aug. 19, 2021, 8:21 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 1 second

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Tarak Barkawi: The Vocation of Arms

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 9:49 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds

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General James McConville: Not Fighting the Last War Better

Published: Aug. 5, 2021, 9:32 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 41 seconds

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Eliot Cohen: Industrialised Precision Warfare

Published: July 29, 2021, 8:19 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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Dr Jennifer Cole: Convergence and Civil Defence

Published: July 22, 2021, 9:21 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds

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General Jim Mattis: Reality is a Terrible Adversary

Published: July 15, 2021, 9:54 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds

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Highlights Season 2: More Optimistic Than Expected

Published: June 10, 2021, 8:29 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 19 seconds

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Jack Watling: Special Forces in Great Power Competition

Published: June 3, 2021, 1:57 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 57 seconds

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Elsa B Kania: Catalysts for Change in the Chinese Military

Published: May 27, 2021, 9:11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 50 seconds

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Michael Kofman: We Got It (Mostly) Right

Published: May 20, 2021, 8:22 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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Emma Sky: Fighting without winning

Published: May 13, 2021, 9:25 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 3 seconds

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Archer Macy: How Do You Know?

Published: May 6, 2021, 9:36 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds

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General Martin Dempsey: Failures of imagination

Published: April 29, 2021, 9:21 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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Michele Flournoy: The Enemy Went to School

Published: April 22, 2021, 8:14 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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No Neat Battlefields

Published: April 15, 2021, 9:31 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 1 second

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Revolutions Of War

Published: April 8, 2021, 10:34 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 40 seconds

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Evolving the Western Way of War into (and out of) COIN

Published: April 1, 2021, 9:25 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds

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Using the War Law to Assert Legitimacy

Published: March 25, 2021, 10:23 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds

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Distinctions in war

Published: March 18, 2021, 10:32 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds

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Just War Theory and Not Just War

Published: March 11, 2021, 9:04 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds

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Fighting for the soul of Western militaries

Published: March 4, 2021, 8:49 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Rose Roth, language and youth

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 10:39 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 40 seconds

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Hybrid is Everything and Everything is Hybrid

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 11:08 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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The Fluidity of Nuclear Doctrine

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 2:14 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds

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No More Walking Away: No More Policy Vacuums

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 41 seconds

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The Future Rules of Warfare

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 53 seconds

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Is the West Developing Innovation Fatigue?

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 5 seconds

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It Was The Surge In Ideas That Mattered Most.

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 2:21 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds

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Vapourwear, Transformations and AirLand Battle

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 21 seconds

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When Did We Stop Inventing Stuff?

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 12 seconds

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Is the Era of Manoeuvre Warfare Dead?

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 16 seconds

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Electronic Warfare and Cumulative Risk

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 3 seconds

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Soothsaying, Prophecy and Luck

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 1:11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 1 second

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The Paradox Facing Navies

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 9:57 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 12 seconds

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People as the Decisive Advantage

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 2:05 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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HYPErsonics?

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 10:06 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 50 seconds

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When did everything become securitised?

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Utility vs Utilisation

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 10:37 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds

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Rules, Norms, and Structures

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 1:09 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 16 seconds

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Bad Procurement: A Peculiarly Western Issue?

Published: Oct. 22, 2020, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds

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Outwitted, Outgunned, and Outflanked

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 11:09 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 5 seconds

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Wars Change Religion

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 10:48 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds

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Don't Invade Parthia

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 9:19 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds

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Political Risk, the Media and the Military

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 9:36 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 53 seconds

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Society and the Western Way of Peace

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 9:18 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds

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CBRN and the Western Way of Warfare

Published: Sept. 10, 2020, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds

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Combined Arms, Military Culture, and the Failures of Leadership

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 11:33 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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Taoism and Clausewitz

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 1:48 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 17 seconds

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Does the Battle Decide the Political End State?

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 46 seconds

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Air Power Beyond Tactical Effects

Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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The Realities and Future of Swarming and Drones

Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 9:25 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 35 seconds

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Air Power in an Age of Great Power Competition

Published: July 30, 2020, 9:36 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 56 seconds

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A Politicians View on the Utility of Hard Power

Published: July 23, 2020, 8:45 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 3 seconds

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The Death of Military Superiority

Published: July 16, 2020, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 5 seconds

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Air Marshal Philip Osborne

Published: July 9, 2020, 9:34 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 9 seconds

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Professor Frank Hoffman

Published: July 2, 2020, 9:32 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 29 seconds

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Admiral Sir Philip Jones

Published: June 25, 2020, 11:08 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 54 seconds

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Baron Richards of Herstmonceaux

Published: June 18, 2020, 10:04 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Professor Nina Kollars

Published: June 11, 2020, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds

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Sir Graeme Lamb

Published: June 11, 2020, 11:19 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 17 seconds

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What is the Western Way of Warfare?

Published: June 4, 2020, 1:25 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds

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