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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: War and Power by Phillips Payson OâBrien read by Theo Solomon
Description: A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social powerââvital reading for anyone grappling with Americaâs uncertain place in todayâs global orderâ (Alexander Vindman, New York Timesâbestselling author of The Folly of Realism)
For nearly two centuries, international relations have been premised on the idea of the âGreat Powers.â As the thinking went, these mighty statesâthe European empires of the nineteenth century, the United States and the USSR during the Cold Warâwere uniquely able to exert their...