Angry Planet

Why War Never Changes

May 1, 2023

45:12

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Prescient of War

5min

The Outliers of World War I and II

3min

The War in Ukraine

3min

The War on Tanks

6min

The Nature of the War

2min

The Evolution of World War Two

4min

The Broader Understanding of What It Means to Be an Award War

2min

The Importance of Proxies in War

3min

10.

The Cost of Obsession With Warfare

5min

11.

The Importance of Understanding War

5min

12.

The Complexity of War

2min

13.

Angry Planet: Casualties and the American Civil War

2min

You may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet of the video game Fallout (my favorite). “War - war never changes.”

What if that’s both true and not true? You have to love a dichotomy. Anyway, we are lucky today to have University of Chicago professor Paul Poast on the show. He looks at foreign policy—war—using statistics to make some sense of it all.

This is a break down of why wars popular on the history channel (World War II, the Civil War) aren’t indicative of how wars are actually fought. The smaller proxy wars the U.S. and Russia have been fighting for the past 30 years are the status-quo, not some new kind of conflict.

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