b'Paul Edgar, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a scholar of ancient Near Eastern warfare, joins the show to talk about war and peace in the old days\\u2014the very old days.\\n\\u25aa\\ufe0f\\nTimes\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa002:58 Introduction\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa010:07 Olmsted\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa016:00 The Bronze Age\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa022:07 Verifying history\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa027:12 Idrimi\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa035:03 How did they fight?\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa039:46 Tactics of the time\\n\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa042:34 Continuities in geopolitics\\n\\nHere is a link to the article discussed today\\n\\nFollow along\\xa0 on Instagram\\n\\nFind a transcript of today\\u2019s episode on our School of War Substack'