Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time.
We discussed
Churchill the applied historian,
Napoleon the startup founder,
why Nazi ideology cost Hitler WW2,
drones, reconnaissance, and other aspects of the future of war,
Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Ukraine, & Taiwan.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Post WW2 conflicts
(00:10:57) - Ukraine
(00:16:33) - How Truman Prevented Nuclear War
(00:22:49) - Taiwan
(00:27:15) - Churchill
(00:35:11) - Gaza & future wars
(00:39:05) - Could Hitler have won WW2?
(00:48:00) - Surprise attacks
(00:59:33) - Napoleon and startup founders
(01:14:06) - Robert’s insane productivity
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