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    Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership

    Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership

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    Ep 124: Shane Brennan on Xenophon and Leadership

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    Length:
    46 minutes
    Released:
    May 21, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Shane Brennan, Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and author of Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History, joins the show to talk about why the Anabasis remains an important part of the Western canon of military writing.
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        •      01:30 Introduction 
        •      02:05 Dubai to Bangladesh
        •      05:37 Xenophon’s start  
        •      09:25 Several levels of failure
        •      12:37 “An exemplary Socratic student”  
        •      14:40 Fighting for the Persians
        •      17:18 Cyrus the Younger    
        •      20:46 A leader emerges  
        •      29:41 “How was he so right?” 
        •      36:43 Matterhorn
        •      38:33 Exile
        •      42:01 An instruction on leadership
        •      44:16 “There is always something there…”

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    Released:
    May 21, 2024
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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.