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🗓️ 2 April 2024

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Historian Andrew Roberts is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including Napoleon: A Life, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, and The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. His latest book, coauthored with General David Petraeus, is Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine, which provides the basis for this interview. Roberts discusses the differences in the way nations and allied forces prosecute wars in the twentieth century vs. today.

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0:00.0	The United States now finds itself involved in wars in Ukraine and Israel and plenty worried about the prospect of war in Taiwan.
0:09.0	What can the history of war tell us about conflict today. Military historian Andrew Roberts, the Lord
0:16.8	Roberts of Belgravia, on uncommon knowledge now. Now. Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.
0:30.0	Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.
0:31.0	I'm Peter Robinson.
0:33.0	A graduate of Gonville and Keys Cambridge, the historian Andrew Roberts is a visiting professor at King's College London,
0:40.0	a Lehman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New York Historical Society and a fellow here at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
0:48.0	In 2022, Andrew Roberts entered the House of Lords as the Baron Roberts of Belgravia.
0:55.6	Lord Roberts is the author of more than a dozen major works of history, including Napoleon,
1:01.2	a life, Churchill Walking with Destiny,
1:04.6	and The Last King of America,
1:06.7	the misunderstood reign of George III.
1:10.3	Andrew Roberts co-authored his newest book with General David Petraeus,
1:15.0	Conflict, The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
1:20.0	Andrew, welcome back.
1:21.0	Thank you.
1:22.0	It's great to be on the show again Peter. You write books by yourself
1:27.0	but this time you had a co-author. How did that come about?
1:30.0	It was shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine that I got on to David and
1:35.4	who I had met several times before knew fairly well and said look there are going to
1:40.9	be lots of geopolitical books and political books about this war but let's write one just on the military aspects of it.
1:48.6	It's only that.
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