Why War Never Changes
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
You may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet of the video game Fallout (my favorite). “War - war never changes.”
What if that’s both true and not true? You have to love a dichotomy. Anyway, we are lucky today to have University of Chicago professor Paul Poast on the show. He looks at foreign policy—war—using statistics to make some sense of it all.
This is a break down of why wars popular on the history channel (World War II, the Civil War) aren’t indicative of how wars are actually fought. The smaller proxy wars the U.S. and Russia have been fighting for the past 30 years are the status-quo, not some new kind of conflict.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature |
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| 0:25.0 | Frankly, that seems to be the problem. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm Matthew Galt. |
| 0:45.0 | You may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet from the video game Fallout, |
| 0:48.0 | you may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet from the video game fallout, which is my favorite |
| 0:55.2 | video game series. War never changes. Now I'll never be able to do Ron Perlman justice, but still that's the line. So what if that's both true and not true? You have to love a dichotomy. |
| 1:11.6 | Anyway, I like to use the word dichotomy, anyway, we are lucky today to have |
| 1:15.8 | University of Chicago professor Paul Post on the show. He looks at foreign policy, war, |
| 1:22.3 | using statistics to make sense of it all. So today we're going to talk |
| 1:26.4 | about the state of modern war, and thank you so much for joining us. A flag on the field real quick. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, for what? |
| 1:35.0 | A little bit of angry play at deep lore. |
| 1:37.0 | There was a version of that outro that we also used Middle Gear Solid Five, which has a line in the beginning that says, |
| 1:46.8 | War has changed, and then he goes on to explain how it's changed. |
| 1:52.0 | I really wish we could have gotten both in there but it just never |
| 1:55.1 | quite worked. Okay okay well thank you for bringing up something from the |
| 1:59.7 | ancient past. So I just want to say first, Paul, you've put together these incredible |
| 2:09.2 | Twitter threads which are a really cool educational tool. |
| 2:14.0 | Tell people first what your Twitter handle is. |
| 2:17.0 | Yeah, well, first of all, thank you for having me on the podcast. |
| 2:20.0 | Really looking forward to the conversation today. |
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