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    Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East

    Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East

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    Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East

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    Length:
    48 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 12, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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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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    Released:
    Dec 12, 2023
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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.