Ep 101: Iskander Rehman on Wars of Protraction

Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at SAIS’s Kissinger Center and author of Planning for Protraction: A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition, joins the show to talk about how future wars might be more a test of national endurance than expected.
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Times 
    •    01:56 Introduction 
    •    04:01 Sharp and short wars
    •    09:07 After the first salvo
    •    12:33 Geography as a predictor
    •    15:21 Will nuclear deterrence work?
    •    21:16 “An informationized local war”
    •    25:13 What matters in protracted wars
    •    28:59 Innovation and adaptation
    •    33:51 The role of national leadership in protracted conflict
    •    38:49 Sino-U.S. competition 
    •    44:50 Absorbing massive casualties
    •    48:06 Polybius

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