Battle Lines

By: The Telegraph
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  • Summary

  • Across the world, from Europe to Asia, the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states. Traditional alliances and alignments are constantly evolving in the 21st century. An understanding of defence and security policy and the tides of political, social and economic changes is crucial for any informed understanding of our world.


    2024 sees war in Europe and Israel, and elections in major economies, including the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Africa, and many others. Insurgencies flare in Yemen and Burma, tensions escalate in East Africa, and all around the world the international security architecture buckles under increasing pressure.


    With expert and experienced reporting on the ground from across the globe, Battle Lines combines on the ground reporting with analytical expertise to aid listeners to better understand the course of world politics and wars as the fault lines of global history grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous, and confusing, multipolar world.


    Battle Lines is the best of The Telegraph’s defence, security, and foreign reporting in one place.


    Telegraph subscribers get early access to bonus episodes on Ukraine: The Latest and Battle Lines. You can subscribe within The Telegraph app, or tap on ‘Already a subscriber’ at the top of this page to log in to link your existing subscription, for more information head to https://www.telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/telegraph-subscription-bonus-content-apple-podcasts/


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Episodes
  • Why the Aztecs lost the war with the Spanish

    Why the Aztecs lost the war with the Spanish
    Dec 27 2024

    In another special episode looking back at history, Venetia Rainey talks with the author of ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs’, a book that came highly recommended by David Knowles. It’s a new look at how the Aztecs dealt with internal conflict, how they lost the war with the Spanish, and how history has misremembered them.


    'Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs’, by Camilla Townsend, is available here:

    https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/fifth-sun-9780197577660


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    31 mins
  • Who was Napoleon's greatest general?

    Who was Napoleon's greatest general?
    Dec 23 2024

    On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational gambit: Who is your favourite of Napoleon’s Marshals? As they ponder their own choice they look back at who the generals were, what made them ‘great’, and why they continue to capture the imagination.


    Contributors

    Francis Dearnley (The Telegraph’s Assistant Comment Editor)

    Dr. Matilda Greig (Historian at the National Army Museum in London, specialising in the Napoleonic period.

    Dr. Zack White (historian and host of 'The Napoleonic Wars Podcast')


    The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity

    To learn more about the charity that aims to provide similar care to the dead of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to that we see from more recent conflicts, visit:

    https://www.nrwgc.com/


    'Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives', edited by Matilda Greig, is available here:

    https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/napoleonic-objects-and-their-afterlives-9781350415072/


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    55 mins
  • 'I bought a drone and killed my boss - it was easy'

    'I bought a drone and killed my boss - it was easy'
    Dec 20 2024

    As mysterious drone sightings near US military bases continue to unsettle anxious citizens, we look into what a new drone age means for the future of warfare. The flying objects have been defining the battlefield for a while, dominating the wars in Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East. But now, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence, anyone can build an autonomous killer drone. So could this herald a new age of assassinations and mass destruction? How can it be controlled? And can it be kept out of the wrong hands?


    The Telegraph’s Arthur Scott-Geddes tells Roland Oliphant how he turned a toy into an assassination device and why more conversation around containing this technology is needed.



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    27 mins

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