2023-11-22
1 小时 18 分钟One of the reasons I'm proud to be an historian is that Churchill was one.
The history was a constant echo for him.
It gave him endless signposts.
In the startup community, there is a cult of Napoleon that is slowly murdered.
Is there?
I didn't know that.
Seriously, is there?
Your biography is the part of the canon here.
If MacArthur had used nuclear weapons against the Chinese crossing the Yalu River,
then yes, he might well have actually won that war,
but it would have lowered the moral barrier so significantly that nuclear weapons would have been used an awful lot more.
In the future, war will be fought between two sets of drones,
and the humans won't be in the loop because decision-making has to take place far,
far faster than the human mind can work.
Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Roberts.
who is most recently the author of Conflict, the evolution of warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
And this book is like Churchill's histories of the Second World War, the First World War,
in that one of the principal actors in the conflicts discussed here is the co-author,
General David Petraeus, who commanded the U.S.
forces in Afghanistan and Iraq as one of your co-authors.