Hello, welcome to the history hit World Wars podcast. I'm James Rogers, and in this

episode we're going to dive into the American way of war. We hear this term a lot, but

what does it mean? We talk about it when we look at the Second World War and that very different approach to war fighting and getting ready for the war that was adopted by American politicians and American generals and it's also tied up with this very American reliance on science, technology,

liberalism and law when trying to ensure that wars are waged effectively,

undertaken for the right reasons, and won comprehensively through the deployment of the most high-tech weapons the world has ever seen.

So join me as I discuss all of this with my good friend Professor Michael J Williams from the Maxwell

School at Syracuse University in the US. Mike is co-author of law, science, liberalism, and the American

way of war, and so he's the perfect person to talk about this with and it's through his

expertise that we can begin to understand the American perspective on some of the

most important conflicts in recent history. Hi Mike, thanks for coming on the World Wars. How are you doing today? I'm doing great.

In my office at Syracuse University at relatively rainy day, so it's good to be inside.

Shocked with you.

And where's Syracuse is in upstate New York?

Syracuse is technical of Central New York, which is upstate New York from New York City.

It's about four hours in a car or 20 minutes in a plane.

Right, so you're in, would this count as rural America?

This would definitely count as semi-rural America. I mean, Syracuse is a small city.

It's part of what we, unfortunately, now now refer as the Ross Belt, which was an area that led an American industrial production related in some ways to warmaking and had fell on hard times in the middle, late 20th century as de-industrialization occurred,

not unlike, for example, in the North of England.

And Syracuse is buoyed by the fact that it has a world-class university

and the Maxwell school where I work is number one for public administration in the

United States, as well as four major hospitals.

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