2023-10-04
2 小时 24 分钟And this notion that Stalin personally is responsible for these millions of deaths,
there were millions of people pulling millions of triggers for all these deaths.
Initially, Hitler did incredibly well.
I mean, his Blitzkrieg incredible.
If he'd quit right there,
he would have gotten away with it and probably be considered a brilliant leader by Germans.
Putin, he's made a pivotal error.
He has no back down plan.
He only has a double down plan.
The People's Republic to take Taiwan, I presume it's going to begin with an artillery barrage.
I presume that's going to be leveling time in these cities, right?
Just watch how it goes in Ukraine.
I can't imagine the Chinese being less brutal.
You're going to say that's OK.
Okay, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Sarah Payne.
She is a professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College.
And she has written some of the best military history I've ever read.
And we're going to get into history, strategy, all kinds of interesting topics today.
My first question, does grand strategy as a concept make sense?
So you have these countries, but the people making these decisions are individuals,