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Modern War Institute at West Point 326 - How Commanders Win Wars

The Modern War Institute Podcast, produced with the generous support of the West Point Class of 1974, is the flagship podcast of the Modern War Institute at West Point. It features discussions with guests including senior military leaders, scholars, and others on the most important issues related to modern military conflict.

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How Commanders Win Wars

NATO's Ankara Summit

Logistics, Landpower, and Large-Scale Combat

The Future of the All-Volunteer Force

Putin’s Intelligence Services

The Weapons Defining the Iran Conflict

The Iran Conflict's Strategic Dimension

What to Make of the New National Defense Strategy

Analyzing Operation Absolute Resolve

Training, Education, and the Modern Battlefield

Europe's Airspace Violations and the Counterdrone Challenge

The Military Technological Arms Race in Ukraine

China's Strategic Competition with the United States

The Army and Tomorrow's Technologies

The US Military's Critical Minerals Challenge

Bunker Busters and B-2s

The US Defense Industrial Base, from Steel to Software

A Survey of Europe's Defense and Security Landscape

The Future Battlefield, from Europe to the Indo-Pacific

The Collapse of the Continuum of Conflict

DeepSeek and the US-China AI Race

Why Security Force Assistance Only Sometimes Works

How the Assad Regime Fell

Inside the Battle of Azovstal

Amateurs Talk, Professionals Write

Casualty Care in Tomorrow's Wars

The Maven Smart System and the Future of Military AI

October 1993

Pagers, Walkie-Talkies, and a Shadow War

The Modern Commander

Israeli-Iranian Rivalry and the Middle Eastern Security Landscape

F-16s Over Ukraine

Why Military Cohesion Matters

Competition and Conflict in Cyberspace

Clausewitz and the War in Ukraine

Defending Against Drones

Introducing "Ctrl Alt Army"

Russia's Pursuit of Military AI

Landpower in the Pacific

How Iran's Missile and Drone Attack Was Defeated

NATO at 75

Resistance and the National Defense of Small States

Nuclear Weapons—Past, Present, and Future

From Hezbollah to the Houthis—Understanding Iran's Proxy Network

Sanctions and Security

Amphibious Operations—from History to the Future Battlefield

Understanding Hamas: From Tactics to Strategy

Shusha, the Battle that Won a War

What Was Hamas Thinking?

Combined Arms in Gaza