Dec 20, 2020

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk with Elizabeth Shackelford about her book “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age.” In the book Shackelford writes about her time in South Sudan as a Foreign Service Officer and what she experienced when the new country descended into war.

Dec 7, 2020

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk about strategic culture, ideology, and military strategy with Jeremy Black. He is an emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and the author of “Military Strategy: A Global History.”

Nov 8, 2020

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk with Prof. Beatrice Heuser from the University of Glasgow about whether strategic thinking as we have come to understand it existed in the centuries before the word “strategy” was introduced into the Western European languages. Heuser is the author of the...

Oct 25, 2020

In 1942 Bernard Brodie published the first edition of his book “A Layman’s Guide to Naval Strategy.” It would see a total of 5 editions, the last in 1964 with a slightly changed title of “A Guide to Naval Strategy.” In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk about Brodie’s book with Dr. Nick...

Sep 9, 2020

In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast, we talk with Dr. John Lewis Gaddis about his book “On Grand Strategy.” Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History at Yale University and was the founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.