Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and author of Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, joins the show to discuss how politics and military command are inextricably linked.\n\u25aa\ufe0f\nTimes\xa0\n\n\u2022\t01:08 Introduction\n\u2022\t02:01 Command\xa0\n\u2022\t05:44 Politics and generalship\n\u2022\t08:00 MacArthur myths\xa0\n\u2022\t11:59 Educating future commanders\n\u2022\t15:50 France\u2019s end of empire\n\u2022\t22:57 Democratic drawbacks\n\u2022\t27:51 Putin\u2019s position\n\u2022\t33:49 Ukraine endgame\n\u2022\t37:27 Better off without Putin\n\u2022\t39:09 Winter is coming