Best Invention Army Podcasts (2025)

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EP 185 - From a Cult to the Cockpit to the Control Room: How Radical Responsibility Saved His Life 59:27

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🎙️ From a controlling childhood in a religious cult, to two combat tours in Iraq, to calling the shots as a live TV director — Logan’s story is one of survival, radical responsibility, and reinvention. In this episode, John Suzuki sits down with Logan to unpack the choices, the low points, and the moment that changed everything — the decision to fi…

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"After me, the flood" 8:27

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Editor note: this article was first published on angrystaffofficer.com here. Much has been written elsewhere regarding the unforgivable sin of failing to plan for known contingencies. Whatever one thinks of the current changes undergoing the United States Army, the least controversial thing to be said about them is that they certainly represent a c…

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The Real Deadwood: A Gold Rush Town Built in a War Zone but Obliterated in an Inferno 37:30

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Gunslinging, gold-panning, stagecoach robbing, whiskey guzzling – the myth and infamy of the American West is synonymous with its most famous town: Deadwood, South Dakota. The storied mining town sprang up in early 1876 and came raining down in ashes only three years later, destined to become food for the imagination and a nostalgic landmark that n…

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Defence's New Industrial Strategy 8:02

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Britain's long awaited Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 (DIS 25) has been released. It commits the Government to the largest sustained uplift in defence spending since the Cold War and seeks to complement the ambition of Strategic Defence Review 2025 (SDR 25). It sets a short-term target of raising spending from 2% of GDP to 2.6% by 2027, declaring…

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EP 184 - From Army Grunt to CEO - Steve Schwab’s Remarkable Journey 1:01:11

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US Veterans Day Special — What happens when military grit meets entrepreneurship? In this special episode of Finding Better, John Suzuki sits down with Army Ranger veteran and Casago founder & CEO Steve Schwab to trace a remarkable journey: from joining the Army to running the largest vacation rental management company in North America. Steve share…

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America's Pacific Dawn: The Spanish-American War Ushered In Global Reach and Savage Conflict 55:59

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Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, was in Havana in 1898, investigating the terrible conditions endured by Cubans whom the Spanish government had forced into concentration camps, where an estimated 425,000 people died of disease and starvation. While she was there, the American warship USS Maine exploded in Havana's harbor, which served as…

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EP 183 - How to Build Your Relationship with Money 50:42

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💬 From Teenage Mom to Financial Truth-Teller — you deserve to feel confident with money. In this episode of Finding Better, John Suzuki talks with Linda Grizely, CFP®, money coach and creator of the MeMoney™ method. Linda went from being a teen mom who dropped out of high school to building a life and career rooted in truth, not performance. She te…

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Sun, Sports, And A Pair Of Human-Skin Shoes 29:50

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By Mark Hamilton

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The Unhealed Wounds of WW2 POWs and Combat Veterans 50:10

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Nearly 16.4 million Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II, and for millions of survivors, the fighting left many of them physically and mentally broken for life. There was a 25% death rate in Japanese POW camps like Bataan, where starvation and torture were rampant, and fierce battles against suicidal Imperial Japanese forces, l…

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EP 182 - Stop White-Knuckling Life: 60 Seconds to Calm - Jenny Evans on Resilience 56:52

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🔥Feeling soul-tired? This episode shows you how to reset—fast. In this episode John Suzuki sits down with performance coach and resilience expert Jenny Evans to unpack a different, science-backed approach to stress: start with your body, not just your mind. Jenny explains why stress is first a chemical-biological event (adrenaline, cortisol, noradr…

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Robert McNamara Thought Enough Data Could Win Any War. Instead, It Led America to the Vietnam Quagmire 1:00:21

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Robert S. McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense during JFK and LBJ’s administrations, and one of the chief architects of the Vietnam war, made a shocking confession in his 1995 memoir. He said “We were wrong, terribly wrong.” McNamara believed this as early as 1965, that the Vietnam War was unwinnable. Yet, instead of urging U.S. forces to exit, h…

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EP 181 - From Chronic Illness to Clarity: The 3 Pillars That Built Amy’s Momentum 56:52

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🌙Stop trying to be the same every day — design your life around what actually moves you forward. John Suzuki talks with Amy Lenius — speaker, coach, and Director of Group Coaching at Next Level University — about redefining success through three foundational pillars: self-worth, self-belief, and consistency. Amy shares her journey from chronic illn…

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The Philistine Connection: Do the Roots of October 7 Go Back 3,000 Years? 36:24

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The October 7th attacks of Hamas on Israel were an unprecedented, surprise incursion by land, sea, and air that stunned the world and prompted Israel to declare war. The attacks, which included massacres in Israeli communities and a music festival, resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and the capture of some 251 hosta…

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On (Military) Pride and Prejudice and Why We Can't Engineer War 16:46

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Pride goeth before the fall War starts with a bluster. Whether it is with sacrifices in the temples, parades or press conferences, young men are sent to battle with pomp and ceremony. Then, they storm the forts or the beaches or the hilltops. They die, usually horribly, foolishly, from mistakes historians will later describe as avoidable. Lessons a…

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EP 180 - Cleansing Your Energy & Rewriting Your Story with Lillian Savoie 58:00

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✨ Want to design a life you truly love? In this episode, Lillian Savoie shows how listening to your spirit, clearing energetic layers, and reclaiming your story can create real, lasting change. John Suzuki welcomes returning guest Lillian Savoie — host of Awaken Change and author of Fill Your Soul the Feminine Way — to dive deep into intuitive livi…

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The Thucydides Trap: How A Rising Athens Made The Peloponnesian War Inevitable 46:29

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The Peloponnesian War is considered one of the most famous wars of the ancient world not only because it was a massive and devastating conflict that reshaped the Greek world, but also because its thorough documentation by the historian Thucydides transformed how we understand history and war. On the face of it, the Peloponnesian War, fought over 20…

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From Loud Touchdowns To Lincoln Highway Campfires 31:59

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By Mark Hamilton

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Ep 179 - He Lost Everything and Then Built a Better Life 1:02:01

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🎧 When your business collapses, your health is on the line, and your relationships fray — how do you rebuild? Ken Cox did it with grit, humor, and a boxing glove. John Suzuki sits down with Ken Cox — founder of River City Internet Group and inlink.com — to unpack a life that’s equal parts chaos and comeback. From growing up in hardship, to early su…

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UK National Resilience 15:30

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The United Kingdom's national resilience is a critical pillar of its security in an increasingly volatile global environment. As geopolitical tensions rise, particularly with adversaries such as Russia, the UK faces multifaceted threats that target its centres of gravity: key societal, economic, and infrastructural elements that underpin national s…

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The Free French Army in North Africa, 1940-1945 49:37

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One of the principal architects of Allied Victory in North Africa during World War Two was French General Louis Dio. His importance in North Africa lies in his role as a key leader of the Free French forces and a trusted subordinate to General Philippe Leclerc. He participated in every battle from Douala to the Fezzan Campaigns in the early 1940s. …

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The Most Dangerous Invention: Gwynne Dyer and the History of War 11:54

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Why Short Histories Matter War has long been the domain of soldiers and scholars: studied by the few, practised by the fewer, but suffered by the many. In the absence of lived memory, the risk is that societies forget what war really means. This fading memory matters. The 20th century saw war reach its historical zenith through extreme industrialis…

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EP 178 - Rewire for Calm: How Jason Munson beat Chronic Stress and Rebuilt his Life 53:05

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Feeling exhausted despite “having it all”? Learn how to rewire your brain for calm and creativity with Jason Munson. 🌊🧠 John Suzuki sits down with Jason Munson, author of Rewire for Calm: How to Break the Cycle of Stress and Thrive. Jason shares his real story — the outward “dream life” that hid deep depression — and the neuroscience-backed practic…

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How Weather, Sports, And A Century-Old Flag Story Shape Wyoming Life 28:52

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By Mark Hamilton

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An Inventor’s Quest to Build a Pneumatic Subway System in 1870s New York 45:11

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Alfred Beach built America’s first operational subway in secret beneath 1860s Manhattan, decades before the city’s official electric subway line in 1904. He designed and commissioned a 300-foot-long, eight-foot-diameter tunnel 20 feet underground, built with a tunneling machine he invented for this purpose. The car moved quietly and silently, pushe…

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Ep 177 - Feeling Stuck? Know You, Believe in You, Do You! 50:57

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Feeling stuck? Troy Horne — Broadway performer, bestselling author, and coach — shows why believing in yourself is the first move toward a bigger, braver life. John Suzuki sits down with Troy Horne (Mental Toughness for Young Athletes) to talk about heart, hustle, and habits that help us rise above the noise of doubt and comparison. From humble beg…

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The Challenges Of Littoral Warfare For The UK: A Critical Perpective 8:22

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The views expressed in this Paper are the authors', and do not represent those of MOD, the Royal Navy, RNSSC, or any other institution. The transformation of the UK's Commando Forces (CF), anchored in the Littoral Response Groups (LRGs) and the CF concept, represents an ambitious shift in British expeditionary warfare. However, its viability is und…

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Spirited Rivalry: Did Ireland or Scotland Invent Whisky? 48:53

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There’s a divide between Scotland and Ireland as fierce as the Protestant/Catholic split during the Thirty Years’ War or the battles between Sunnis and Shias in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. It’s the debate over who invented whisky. Both Ireland and Scotland claim to have originated the spirit. Ireland cites its early monastic traditions and the …

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EP 176 - Like it or not, you are a leader. Here’s how to be a good one! 1:01:07

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Two minutes you’ll want to hear: Jim Carlough breaks down leadership into six simple, life-ready pillars — starting with integrity and moving through empathy, compassion, and focus — in a conversation that’s as practical for CEOs as it is for parents. Host John Suzuki sits with Jim to unpack real stories, including how promises and heart kept a tea…

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Small Powers, Big Impact: Asymmetric Warfare in the Age of Tech 6:09

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Incremental adaptation in modern warfare has astonished military observers globally. Ukraine's meticulously planned Operation Spider Web stands as a stark reminder of how bottom-up innovation combined with hi-tech solutions can prove their mettle on the battlefield. It has also exposed the recurring flaw in the strategic mindsets of the great power…

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The Horse That Ate the Legion: Rome’s Cavalry's Triumph Over the Infantry 41:21

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The cavalry 'wings' that probed ahead of the Roman Army played a key role in its campaigns of conquest, masking its marching flanks and seeking to encircle enemies in battle. However, at the very beginning of Rome’s history, it didn’t even have a cavalry, and relied on Greek-style phalanx formations instead. It began as a small cavalry arm provided…

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Wyoming Fall, Sports, and History 30:24

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A sharp wind, a packed bleacher, and a story that won’t sit quietly—that’s the arc we ride this week across Wyoming. We open on a cold, gray morning and the kind of 65 mph gusts that flip trailers and test patience from Chugwater to Casper, pivot into homecoming pride where the Bobcats edge Lyman 14–7 and the FFA plates out ribs, sweet corn, and pi…

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EP 175 - How One Method Took Kids from 2nd-Grade Reading to Graduate-Level Comprehension 53:04

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🎧 If someone you love struggles with reading or writing, this episode is required listening — Russell Van Brocklin explains a practical, low-cost approach that moves students rapidly from struggling readers to advanced comprehender. John Suzuki welcomes Russell Van Brocklin, a dyslexia professor and practitioner who has translated structured litera…

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What Makes a Good Military Coalition Partner? 11:06

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The United States Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, recently commented that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, which existed between 2001-2014, colloquially stood for 'I saw Americans fighting' at a recent Capitol hearing.1 Hegseth was giving evidence in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee when he made the co…

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Beyond Joan of Arc and Agincourt: How the 100 Years War Crushed Medieval Europe and Launched its Global Order 58:41

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Modern France and Britain were forged in the fires of the Hundred Years War, a century-long conflict that produced deadly English longbowmen, Joan of Arc’s heavenly visions, and a massive death toll from Scotland to the Low Countries. The traditional beginning and end of the Hundred Years' War are conventionally marked by the start of open conflict…

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Principle-Based Close-Combat Training 13:55

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Ep 174 - Bet On Yourself: Jeanne Omlor’s Roadmap from Deep Debt to Multi-7 Figures 42:32

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By John Suzuki

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Reverse Ellis Island: American Migrants Who Fought for Mussolini and Built Stalin’s USSR 38:33

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Where storms, stadiums, and the Johnson County War reveal how Wyoming changes—and what stays the same 33:04

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By Mark Hamilton

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EP 173 - Remember Who You Are - The Authenticity Struggle with Markus Neukom 1:00:35

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🌿 You don’t need to become more — you need to remember who you already are. In this episode of Finding Better, John Suzuki sits down with Markus Neukom — speaker, mentor, and founder of the Institute of CFLI and The Stillness Council. With 20+ years helping leaders, Markus reframes imposter syndrome as a symptom of a deeper “authenticity struggle.”…

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Bullshit & Botshit: Digital Sycophancy & Analogue Deference in Defence 15:15

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The recently published Strategic Defence Review (SDR)1 and National Security Strategy (NSS)2 both place accelerating development and adoption of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the heart of their bold new vision for Defence. I've written elsewhere3 about the broader ethical implications,4 but want here to turn attention to the 'so wh…

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Don’t Use Rome as a Model of Why Societies Collapse; Use Crime Syndicates and Somalia Instead 49:42

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12,000 years ago, human history changed forever when the egalitarian groups of hunter-gathering humans began to settle down and organize themselves into hierarchies. The few dominated the many, seizing control through violence. What emerged were “Goliaths”: large societies built on a collection of hierarchies that are also terrifyingly fragile, col…

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EP 172 - Building Practical AI for You and Business - Hunter Jensen 52:27

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🤖 Are you intimidated by AI — or curious how to actually make it work for your business? In this episode of Finding Better, host John Suzuki speaks with Hunter Jensen, Founder & CEO of Barefoot Solutions / Barefoot Labs, about practical, secure ways businesses and everyday people can adopt AI. Hunter has 20+ years building ROI-driven software for c…

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What a British-Led Military Contingent in Ukraine Could Look Like 8:12

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in its full-scale war for the third year with level overall years of conflict, is reaching a critical moment where both Kyiv's and Moscow's will to fight comes down to attrition. Under the second Trump Administration, peace talks and proposals of frozen lines have taken place with NATO members, Ukrainian President V…

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EP 171 - Life is simple: here’s why it’s so hard - Anil Gupta 52:10

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✨ “Life is simple — but we make it hard.” In this powerful and emotional episode of The Finding Better Podcast, host John Suzuki sits down with Anil Gupta, the world-renowned “Love Doctor” who has transformed lives across 18 countries — including coaching legends like Richard Branson and Mike Tyson. Anil opens up about his near-suicide in 2008 and …

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A Union General Found a Loophole in the Fugitive Slave Act, Causing 1 Million Slaves to Flee North 45:21

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After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, enslaved people feared running away to the North, as their return was mandated, and they faced brutal punishment or even death upon return to deter others from escaping. But that changed during the Civil War. Black slaves in Confederate Virginia began hearing rumors that they could receive their …

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EP 170 - Stop Dating Your Parents: Breaking Patterns & Finding Conscious Love - Christian de la Huerta 48:28

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✨ Are you struggling with self-doubt, toxic patterns, or relationships that don’t seem to work? In this powerful episode of Finding Better, host John Suzuki speaks with internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher, TEDx speaker, and award-winning author Christian de la Huerta about his journey from self-hatred to self-love — and how Conscious Love c…

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Vegan Uniform: Why wouldn't we? 9:44

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The recently reported move by the RAF to manage supply of vegan alternative uniforms on request, whilst not necessarily quite as new as it may seem, may initially appear to challenge military identity, organisational culture, and the nature and Operational Effectiveness of a modern fighting force. But whilst I'm not vegan myself and therefore won't…

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Identification/Mission First in the Digital Age 13:13

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This brief presents a strategic imperative. The development of the IMF is consistently bound by a very complex set of messaging - not just within the MoD but also across its supplier base - whereby interlinking technology, organisational and institutional change is hindering scalability across 'The Stack'. Increasingly, the three components of tech…

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Rain, Ostriches, and The Man Who Invented the Wild West 32:47

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The Civil War’s Brutal Finale: A War of Attrition as Terrible as WW2-Pacific and the Napoleonic Wars 47:55

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In 1864, the American Civil War reached a critical juncture with Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, including the brutal battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, which claimed over 60,000 casualties, surpassing Gettysburg as the Americas’ deadliest clash. Abraham Lincoln faced a contentious re-election against George B. McClellan, while Confe…