Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy
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Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Military History for the Modern Strategist: America’s Major Wars Since 1861, joins the show to talk about how the patterns of military history can shed light on today’s concerns.
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• 01:16 Introduction
• 01:50 Military history for the modern strategist
• 05:16 Is military history relevant?
• 09:05 Lessons from the Civil War
• 22:47 Could the South have succeeded?
• 27:46 America starts slow
• 35:35 MaArthur’s dismissal
• 41:16 Could the Korean War have ended earlier?
• 45:11 What is our grand strategy?
Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy