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2,500 years of strategic history, 11 books, one afternoon.

Hugh White is Australia's foremost strategic thinker: former senior adviser to Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence in Defence, inaugural Director of ASPI, and principal author of the 2000 Defence White Paper. He is now Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University.

Before this conversation, I asked Hugh for the eleven books that most shaped his thinking on strategy, international relations and defence policy. We work through them one by one — what each book argues, what it gets right and wrong, how it shaped his worldview — and use them to tackle the big questions: why great powers start disastrous wars, how international orders collapse, and how Australia and America should respond to the rise of China.

EPISODE RESOURCES
Hugh's strategy reading list: https://josephnoelwalker.com/hugh-whi...
Hugh's 1993 Tathra note: https://josephnoelwalker.com/hugh-whi...

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EPISODE LINKS
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Introduction.
00:03:44 - Donald Kagan: The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
00:29:03 - Garrett Mattingly: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
00:47:08 - A. J. P. Taylor: The Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848–1918
01:25:07 - Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August
01:44:49 - A. J. P. Taylor: The Origins of the Second World War
02:21:13 - E. H. Carr: The Twenty Years' Crisis
02:49:03 - Michael Howard: The Continental Commitment
03:07:50 - George F. Kennan: American Diplomacy
03:25:19 - Neville Meaney: The Search for Security in the Pacific, 1901–1914
03:33:39 - Henry Kissinger: Diplomacy
03:48:59 - Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
04:00:14 - General questions.