A Chat with Britain's Top Officer, Adm. Radakin

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Ryan sat down at the War on the Rocks office with Adm. Sir Antony Radakin, the professional head of the United Kingdom's military. The two discussed the United Kingdom's support for the Ukrainian military, the lessons learned from the conflict and the challenges Russia is now facing. The conversation then pivoted to the future of the British military, the plans for global force presence and Adm. Radakin's perspective on the status of AUKUS.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.
0:17.0	My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of Warren the Rocks.
0:20.2	In this episode I sat down with Admiral Sir Anthony David Radikin.
0:23.7	He is the most senior officer in the British Armed Forces, the professional head of the British
0:28.3	Armed Forces, our equivalent of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
0:31.6	He's also had some very cool titles in his career even cooler than that.
0:35.0	He was the first Sea Lord ahead of the Naval Service.
0:37.8	He also has another very cool title that I didn't get a chance to ask him about that
0:40.5	I just found on his Wikipedia page the Lord High Constable of England
0:44.3	America we need to step it up with our cool titles we really need to do better
0:49.2	anyway we had a fantastic conversation during his recent visit to Washington, D.C.
0:54.4	And I hope you enjoy the conversation.
0:56.0	So what brings you to town?
0:58.0	So I'm here part of a regular visit to Washington and catch up with your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Millie.
1:07.0	And I'm very fortunate that I'm also going to receive an award a Legion of Merit tomorrow.
1:14.0	Congratulations.
1:15.0	Thank you.
1:16.0	And congratulations to you.
1:18.0	10 years and a big USMC sword I hear.
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, Frank Hoff and unexpectedly gave me a big sword on our 10th anniversary party, a very kind of them.
1:27.0	I'm a sword owner now, which is something I thought I'd never say.
1:30.0	This is probably the capital I would imagine you have gone to the most since becoming Chief of Defense Staff. Is that fair or is that not right?
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