Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)

EconTalk

Library of Economics and Liberty

Ethics, Philosophy, Economics, Books, Science, Business, Courses, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Interviews, Education, History

4.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

British Army major and Sandhurst lecturer Andrew Fox recently spent a week with the Israel Defense Forces including a day inside Gaza. He was struck by the IDF's control of Gazan territory and shocked by the level of physical devastation. Listen as Fox and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss Fox's analysis of Israel's performance in the Gazan war, why Fox believes that Israel is succeeding, and what he thinks Israel's critics get right and wrong.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is August 8, 2024.
0:37.0	My guest is Military Strategic
0:42.0	journalist and former soldier Andrew Fox.
0:44.8	He writes on Substack.
0:46.1	His site is simply called Andrew Fox's Substack.
0:50.0	For 16 years, he was an infantry officer.
0:52.3	He twice commanded an infantry platoon in Afghanistan
0:56.1	and a fire support group in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
0:59.3	He commanded training platoons at the Royal Military Sandhurst, which is the British West Point, although Andrew would probably say West Point's the British Sandhurst.
1:08.0	He wrote the syllabus from which all British Army officers are still taught how to plan military operations and he served with the
1:14.4	green burays in Afghanistan. There's more but I think you get the idea that Andrew has
1:19.4	seen a few things. Andrew, welcome to Econ Talk.
1:23.2	Thank you very much. Great to be here.
1:24.8	Before we start, I want to mention this episode may involve some adult themes,
1:29.2	parents listening with children may want to screen it accordingly.
1:31.8	I also want to remind
1:33.1	listeners I've done about a dozen episodes on the war in Gaza and on Israel
1:37.2	generally since October 7th. Some people have interviewed are very pro-Israel,
1:41.6	some less so or highly critical of Israel. My goal
1:45.5	has always been to try to understand what's going on. I know I have biases. I know it's a very
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Library of Economics and Liberty, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Library of Economics and Liberty and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.