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Ep 179: Phillips O’Brien on Grand Strategy in WW2
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Phillips O’Brien, chair of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War, joins the show to discuss the nature of strategic decision making in World War II and beyond.
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• 01:50 Introduction
• 02:48 Germany 1st debunked
• 06:50 A matter of choices
• 08:20 Management styles
• 11:23 FDR the navalist
• 14:42 Strategic balance
• 16:52 The British Empire
• 18:58 Churchill the shapeshifter
• 26:42 Britain’s place
• 29:22 Casablanca
• 33:54 Making Hitler
• 38:43 Firepower + racial superiority
• 42:41 Delaying defeat
• 44:55 A childish view of war
• 46:50 Human decisions
• 48:28 Stalin the survivor
• 51:30 “Not nice people”
Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
185 episodes
Manage episode 467782402 series 2998419
Phillips O’Brien, chair of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War, joins the show to discuss the nature of strategic decision making in World War II and beyond.
▪️
Times
• 01:50 Introduction
• 02:48 Germany 1st debunked
• 06:50 A matter of choices
• 08:20 Management styles
• 11:23 FDR the navalist
• 14:42 Strategic balance
• 16:52 The British Empire
• 18:58 Churchill the shapeshifter
• 26:42 Britain’s place
• 29:22 Casablanca
• 33:54 Making Hitler
• 38:43 Firepower + racial superiority
• 42:41 Delaying defeat
• 44:55 A childish view of war
• 46:50 Human decisions
• 48:28 Stalin the survivor
• 51:30 “Not nice people”
Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack
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