Ep 175: Mick Ryan on War & Fiction
Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, joins the show to discuss future-war fiction and the possible futures of current wars.
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Show Notes
Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, joins the show to discuss future-war fiction and the possible futures of current wars.
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Times
• 01:23 Introduction
• 02:10 Tom Clancy
• 05:40 Accessibility
• 07:14 The Battle of Dorking
• 09:57 White Sun War
• 13:39 Diplomatic failures
• 15:40 Friction
• 18:50 Israel transformed
• 23:00 Existential threats
• 25:25 Ukraine
• 32:31 Pressuring Putin
• 35:01 Taiwan and Japan
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