Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode we're talking all about

Seagges you think that a siege is something of the past forces holding a city to ransom stopping people coming in and out until the inhabitants

inside staff give up or run out of munitions. Well you might think back to Roman siege engines or medieval

sieges of giant castles and think that this is very much a thing of the past.

But as Major Amos C. Fox, who is executive officer of the third squadron, fourth security

force assistant brigade at Fort Carson, Colorado, he is a major in the US Army.

As he explains to us, the siege is very much still part of modern warfare,

even if we don't hear about it.

He takes us through the modern history of the siege

in the post-Cold War period, from the

sieges of Sarajevo to Shrebenica and into modern warfare today. He shows us

that the Russians still use sieges in the war in Ukraine and how the West still uses its

sieges despite the fact that these are very much distant surgical, precise drone wars.

There are still vast sieges going on in places like the battle for

Mosul, which as Amos argues should probably be more accurately called

the Siege of Mosul. So here he is the brilliant Major Amos C. Fox on the modern history of

sieges. Hi Amos, welcome to the History Hit Warfare podcast. How you doing today?

I'm doing great James. Thank you. How are you?

I'm good. Yeah, good to see you again. The last time we spoke we were debating precision warfare and

sieges at a conference in Denmark and I've read your work and we had to get you on to

talk about why sieges which we see as being so historically important are important once again today.

So it's great to have you on.

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