The Winter War: Lessons for Ukraine
Warfare
History Hit
4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Molotov Cocktails, stealth skiing, and a ruined Birthday party for Stalin? What exactly happened in the Winter War of 1939-40 between Russia and Finland? This week James is joined by Elisabeth Braw from the American Enterprise Institute to discuss the Finnish-Russo war of the 20th Century and it's impact on geo-politics today. Together they cover Russia's unexpected loss, the advantages of fighting on Finnish turf, and how in the face of a foreign enemy, internal politics can be put aside to unite communities.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello everyone, I'm your host James Rogers and welcome back to warfare a |
| 0:35.8 | podcast that takes us deep into the history of wars that have shaped and changed our |
| 0:40.0 | modern world. This week I've been working on the Ukraine crisis, especially the use of |
| 0:44.9 | military drones in Ukraine as part of a NATO project that I work on. And it got me thinking, |
| 0:50.0 | what historical wars and battles can help us understand what's going on in Ukraine today, |
| 0:55.1 | especially as tensions continue to rise considerably with Russia. |
| 0:59.7 | To help us understand this, I've brought in expert security policy advisor and historian Elizabeth |
| 1:05.4 | Braw. Elizabeth has been working on the Winter War between the gigantic Soviet Union and |
| 1:11.0 | tiny Finland and has come up with some fascinating parallels that help us understand |
| 1:15.4 | first this unbelievable history of how Finland was victorious in freezing battles against the |
| 1:21.4 | USSR, and second how a small country with a small |
| 1:25.2 | military can hold off a vast nation with a superior military. Lessons that are |
| 1:30.9 | indeed pretty pertinent today. |
| 1:33.0 | So here is Elizabeth Braille on the Winter War. |
| 1:36.0 | Enjoy. Hi Elizabeth, welcome to the history hit Warfare podcast. We're here to talk about this amazing history that you've written. I can't wait to get into it. But before we do that, you are based at AI that's in Washington DC. What is AI? |
| 2:07.5 | A. E. I is the American Enterprise Institute. It's it's a large tank well, the office is in DuPont Circle, I must say a very palatial office, best office I've ever worked in, and it has a number of different research divisions. |
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