We're back again! In this episode, recorded last fall, we revisit the topic of wargaming, this time with British Army Major Edward Farren, an exchange officer with the Canadian Army, co-director of Fight Club International, and designer of the "Readiness" wargame, which simulates the strategic challenge of managing the military of a great power for an extended period, balancing force projection and force generation while responding to threats in different theaters and navigating domestic political currents. Join us to learn more about how wargaming can help soldiers, citizens, and policymakers better understand how to face the most urgent challenges of our time.

Learn more about Fight Club here: https://www.fightclubinternational.org/

Infantry may be the "queen of battle"... but artillery is the king! Earlier this year, we spoke with retired US Army Colonel Jeffrey Buck about his career in Field Artillery and what training is like for soldiers in this branch, from the schoolhouse to the two-way range, and how gunners are adapting for the battlefields of the future.

Earlier this year, we chatted with Julian Werner, an infantry officer in the German Bundeswehr's EGB (Specialized Army Forces), a SOF unit comparable to the US Army Rangers. In addition, he's a research fellow at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. An exemplar of the "warrior-scholar" archetype, Julian spoke with us about everything from shoothouses to strategic-level defense policy issues in an uncertain age for the transatlantic alliance.

Julian's profile at CISS