Western Way of War

By The Royal United Services Institute

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A collection of discussions with those in the Profession of Arms that tries to understand the issues around how to fight, and succeed, against adversaries in the 2020s. We pose the questions as whether a single Western Way of Warfare (how Western militaries fight) has been successful, whether it remains fit for task today, and how it might need to adapt in the future? It is complemented by the ‘Adversarial Studies’ project that looks at how adversaries fight. The views or statements expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by RUSI employees are those of the employees and do not necessarily reflect the view of RUSI.

Episode Date
So What Did We Learn, if Anything?
Dec 23, 2021
Ben Wallace: Not Tinkering Around the Edges
Dec 16, 2021
Dr Matthew Harries: Matters of nuclear weapons
Dec 09, 2021
Joann Robertson: Rethinking Logistics
Dec 02, 2021
Sam Cranny Evans: Chinese Ground Forces
Nov 25, 2021
Natia Seskuria: Russian Borderisation Tactics
Nov 18, 2021
Alessio Patalano: The Evolution of Warfare at Sea
Nov 11, 2021
Kafia Omar: A Deadly Decade for Children
Nov 04, 2021
Sarah Ashbridge: Are We Proud of the Contract Between the Military and Society?
Oct 21, 2021
Justin Bronk: An Unhealthy Dependence on Air Power
Oct 14, 2021
Malcolm Davis: Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey
Oct 07, 2021
Prof Jim Holmes: There is a Problem with Western Navies
Sep 30, 2021
Katarzyna Zysk: Russian Creativity and Risk-Taking
Sep 23, 2021
Anant Mishra: Street Smart Warfare
Sep 15, 2021
John Spencer: Urban Warfare as the Great Leveller
Sep 08, 2021
Heather Venable: Gen Z - The Best Tacticians in History?
Sep 02, 2021
Minogue and Haines: Education in Conflict Zones
Aug 26, 2021
Rory Stewart: Failure, and the Villains of the Western Campaign in Afghanistan
Aug 19, 2021
Tarak Barkawi: The Vocation of Arms
Aug 12, 2021
General James McConville: Not Fighting the Last War Better
Aug 05, 2021
Eliot Cohen: Industrialised Precision Warfare
Jul 29, 2021
Dr Jennifer Cole: Convergence and Civil Defence
Jul 22, 2021
General Jim Mattis: Reality is a Terrible Adversary
Jul 15, 2021
Highlights Season 2: More Optimistic Than Expected
Jun 10, 2021
Jack Watling: Special Forces in Great Power Competition
Jun 03, 2021
Elsa B Kania: Catalysts for Change in the Chinese Military
May 27, 2021
Michael Kofman: We Got It (Mostly) Right
May 20, 2021
Emma Sky: Fighting without winning
May 13, 2021
Archer Macy: How Do You Know?
May 06, 2021
General Martin Dempsey: Failures of imagination
Apr 29, 2021
Michèle Flournoy: The Enemy Went to School
Apr 22, 2021
No Neat Battlefields
Apr 15, 2021
Revolutions Of War
Apr 08, 2021
Evolving the Western Way of War into (and out of) COIN
Apr 01, 2021
Using the War Law to Assert Legitimacy
Mar 25, 2021
Distinctions in war
Mar 18, 2021
Just War Theory and Not Just War
Mar 11, 2021
Fighting for the soul of Western militaries
Mar 04, 2021
Rose Roth, language and youth
Feb 25, 2021
Hybrid is Everything and Everything is Hybrid
Feb 18, 2021
The Fluidity of Nuclear Doctrine
Feb 11, 2021
No More Walking Away: No More Policy Vacuums
Feb 04, 2021
The Future Rules of Warfare
Jan 28, 2021
Is the West Developing Innovation Fatigue?
Jan 21, 2021
It Was The Surge In Ideas That Mattered Most.
Jan 14, 2021
Vapourwear, Transformations and AirLand Battle
Jan 07, 2021
When Did We Stop Inventing Stuff?
Dec 31, 2020
Is the Era of Manoeuvre Warfare Dead?
Dec 24, 2020
Electronic Warfare and Cumulative Risk
Dec 17, 2020
Soothsaying, Prophecy and Luck
Dec 10, 2020
The Paradox Facing Navies
Dec 03, 2020
People as the Decisive Advantage
Nov 26, 2020
HYPErsonics?
Nov 19, 2020
When did everything become securitised?
Nov 12, 2020
Utility vs Utilisation
Nov 05, 2020
Rules, Norms, and Structures
Oct 29, 2020
Bad Procurement: A Peculiarly Western Issue?
Oct 22, 2020
Outwitted, Outgunned, and Outflanked
Oct 15, 2020
Wars Change Religion
Oct 08, 2020
Don't Invade Parthia
Oct 01, 2020
Political Risk, the Media and the Military
Sep 24, 2020
Society and the Western Way of Peace
Sep 17, 2020
CBRN and the Western Way of Warfare
Sep 10, 2020
Combined Arms, Military Culture, and the Failures of Leadership
Sep 03, 2020
Taoism and Clausewitz
Aug 27, 2020
Does the Battle Decide the Political End State?
Aug 20, 2020
Air Power Beyond Tactical Effects
Aug 13, 2020
The Realities and Future of Swarming and Drones
Aug 06, 2020
Air Power in an Age of Great Power Competition
Jul 30, 2020
A Politicians View on the Utility of Hard Power
Jul 23, 2020
The Death of Military Superiority
Jul 16, 2020
Air Marshal Philip Osborne
Jul 09, 2020
Professor Frank Hoffman
Jul 02, 2020
Admiral Sir Philip Jones
Jun 25, 2020
Baron Richards of Herstmonceaux
Jun 18, 2020
Professor Nina Kollars
Jun 11, 2020
Sir Graeme Lamb
Jun 11, 2020
What is the Western Way of Warfare?
Jun 04, 2020