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🗓️ 5 November 2022
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0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
0:28.5 | Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud. Each week we choose three pieces from the magazine |
0:33.6 | and ask their writers to read them aloud. I'm Oscar Edmondson, and on the podcast this |
0:38.1 | week. Mark Galiotti explains why Ukraine is becoming a weapons test ground. Katcher Hoyer tells us |
0:44.8 | about Germany's extreme monarchists, and Tanya Gold reads her notes on espresso's. Up first, Mark |
0:52.5 | Galliotti. The war in Ukraine has become a testing ground for new technology, an opportunity to develop |
0:58.7 | weapons and find different ways of fighting. Nations that are supposedly neutral have been |
1:04.1 | sending weapons to the front line to find out just how they work in the heat of battle. |
1:09.5 | This is a relatively new trend in the history of warfare, one that first emerged in the 1936 |
1:15.3 | to 39 Spanish Civil War. The backers of both sides treated the war as not just a testing |
1:21.3 | range but also a showroom. The Germans supporting Franco's nationalists first tried |
1:27.4 | Blitzkrieg on the Spanish peninsula. |
1:30.6 | Herman Goering saw the civil war as a chance to test my young Luftwaffe. |
1:36.3 | The German Condor Legion fielded Meschismet fighters and Henkel medium-range bombers, |
1:41.8 | later used by the Germans in the Blitz attacks on London. Also present in Spain |
1:47.2 | was Germany's new 8.8 centimetre flat cannon, whose real-world use helped sell the powerful weapon to |
1:53.9 | Italy and Finland. The Soviets were less strategic in their support for the opposing Spanish |
1:59.4 | Republicans, but even so, thousands of soldiers and airmen gained combat experience and learned what Blitzkrieg felt like |
2:06.6 | from the losing side. Since Vladimir Putin's invasion, Ukraine has become a similar showcase for |
2:12.1 | arms exporters, as well as something of a proxy war between international rivals. From the very start of the war, |
2:18.6 | Ukraine's so-called Alibaba army of commercial off-the-shelf drones bought from the Chinese |
2:24.4 | wholesaler offered an unexpected edge. The drones were first used for surveillance, but were |
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