WDF Xtra Teaser: July 2017

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For the month of July the Xtra feed is lit up with five installments of Louis XIV's Arms & Armies, a very exciting and fascinating 10 part series (with the tenth part released in September) looking at how Louis managed to wage war with his troops, what he changed in the French state to make it happen and what the legacy of such changes was. It makes for some very interesting listening, and herein we give you a sample of each of the five episodes releasing in the Xtra feed in July, so I hope you'll check them out! For the record, here's a brief rundown of each ep. Episode 1: setting the scene of 17th century warfare and the French experience, how France had been threatened and how Louis planned to react.Episode 2: how Louis furthered the changes advanced by his predecessors in the constitution of French armies; how the armies wielded by the state went from mostly mercenaries to state funded and organised institutions in their own right, and how Louis XIV organised the monies around to pay for them.Episode 3: technology of infantry, above all the musket, and how it was gradually upgraded and adapted to make the most efficient use of its strengths, while making allowances for its limitations on the field.Episode 4: how the terrible impact of warfare in the 17th century forced Louis' armies to adapt and develop their own military drill, which came in time to represent a set of hard and fast rules religiously adhered to by each rank and file soldier. The aim was to produce an unthinking and unfearing killing machine, answerable only to his officers and immune to the concerns posed by the warfare waging around him.Episode 5: How the obsession for security in Louis' mind prompted Vauban to advocate the siege above all, and how the siege came to represent the fundamental backbone of all military procedures going forward, rather than the less conclusive and more costly pitched battle.I hope you enjoy these teasers history friends, and if you do, I hope again that you'll consider joining up to the greatest history club in podcasting, if I do say so myself! Check out www.patreon.com/WhenDiplomacyFails and sign up at the $5 level now to access all of this great content and so much more besides!Remember also to follow us on Twitter @wdfpodcastVisit the website: www.wdfpodcast.comFollow the journey on Facebook too!Thanksssssss! Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello there, history friends and welcome to the teaser episode for the extra feed for the month of July.
0:19.9	How's everyone doing? I hope you're all doing well. I hope you're
0:22.6	enjoying this respite you've been having from when diplomacy fails and that maybe, hey, you're
0:27.2	catching up on the five weeks to run wild project. I hope you guys have not been too overwhelmed
0:33.1	by all of that and I hope that you're still with us after that extreme period of podcasting.
0:37.7	But hey, if you want a little bit extra in your life, if you want a little bit more from
0:42.4	when diplomacy fails, then the extra feed is the best place for you to go.
0:47.8	What is the extra feed?
0:48.9	Well, if you didn't know, somehow, when diplomacy fails is on Patreon and from $5 a month,
0:53.8	you guys can avail of at least
0:56.0	an hour of extra content every month. That is to say, normally there would only be an hour
1:00.9	of extra content, but in summer we're doing something special. You see, we're doing basically
1:05.6	an episode every week, as you would get in the normal feed, and we're not getting anything
1:09.2	in the normal feed because, well, I think the normal feed needs a break.
1:12.8	And the normal listeners who are used to normal release schedules
1:16.1	are probably still recovering and gathering all their marbles
1:19.1	after I scattered them to the winds
1:20.9	in the five weeks to run wild project.
1:23.7	Anyway, what I'm trying to say is,
1:25.6	if you guys would like to listen to some extra stuff,
1:27.8	then go and check the extra feed out.
1:30.8	Do EDF podcast, click on the Patreon banner or patreon.com.
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