Lawfare Daily: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower with Michel Paradis
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with author, attorney, legal scholar, and Lawfare Contributing Editor Michel Paradis to discuss the 80th anniversary of D-Day and his new book, “The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower.”
They discussed understudied aspects of Eisenhower’s unique personal and professional history, how they prepared him for leading what would become the Allied invasion of Europe, and how his actions set the stage for much of the 20th century that would follow.
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| 0:32.0 | So really what, you know, again, D-Day itself puts to the test is whether or not modern warfare has reached a new epic, where the |
| 0:40.0 | militaries can now operate globally, can sort of land on hostile shores in ways that, you know, just they couldn't during World War One. |
| 0:48.0 | It's the Law Affair Podcast. I'm Scott Ar Anderson, senior editor here at Law Fair with author and Law Fair contributing editor Michelle Para D. |
| 0:55.2 | I've never seized that the plan for operation over the plan for |
| 0:59.5 | D day is just way too small. |
| 1:01.4 | And so he has to figure out a way of essentially doubling the size of |
| 1:06.1 | the invasion in order to ensure against you know a robust German counterattack. |
| 1:11.6 | Today we're discussing the legacy of D-Day as we approach its 80th anniversary, as well as his new book, |
| 1:17.0 | The Light of Battle, Eisenhower, D-Day, and the birth of the American superpower. |
| 1:21.0 | So Michelle, you have put together an incredibly detailed textured historical narrative of a period |
| 1:30.0 | that I think is in some ways overstud and in some ways under study. It is a period that this D-Day and obviously the days |
| 1:37.3 | link up to it that is a crux of American history, world history in a lot of ways. It appears in every major history book, every |
| 1:43.7 | major World War II text, but the contributing factors that lead to the day itself, |
| 1:49.6 | the personalities, the decisions, isn't something that I've seen tackled at this impression. the |
| 1:53.3 | personalities, the decisions, isn't something that I've seen tackled at this impressive level of depth. |
| 1:56.3 | And I'm excited to dig into it a little bit because one thing that's really unique |
| 1:59.9 | about the book as I've read it is your effort to really step into the role of people at the time and put decisions and personalities and actions in a context that I hadn't fully appreciated for a lot of these stories, even ones that I was familiar with, |
| 2:16.3 | before I started reading the book. I think you kick it off the book that way in a way. |
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