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Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

FromSchool of War


Ep 81: Max Hastings on the Cuban Missile Crisis

FromSchool of War

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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Max Hastings, journalist, military historian, and author most recently of Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, joins the show to talk about the world’s brush with World War III. 
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    •    01:41 Introduction 
    •    01:59 From journalism to history
    •    07:06 Recollections
    •    09:40 Castro and the Bay of Pigs
    •   19:46 Overflights 
    •    26:46 Quarantine and blockade 
    •    33:45 Russian floundering
    •    35:52 Dealmaking 
    •   40:07 Uncomfortable proximity 
    •    42:36 Spheres of influence

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Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There’s a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy. Avoiding the knowledge of war is dangerous. This podcast solves that problem by diving into military and diplomatic history.  We study strategy, and the words and deeds of significant battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have trained directly in the school of war.   This podcast is primarily an interview show. The subject of any given episode may be the story of an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international competition; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; the legacy of an important military commander or political leader in wartime.