Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East
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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—the very old days.
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• 02:58 Introduction
• 10:07 Olmsted
• 16:00 The Bronze Age
• 22:07 Verifying history
• 27:12 Idrimi
• 35:03 How did they fight?
• 39:46 Tactics of the time
• 42:34 Continuities in geopolitics
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Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East