Sarah C. M. Paine - Why Dictators Keep Making the Same Fatal Mistake

I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College.

We discuss:

how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions
how a war with China over Taiwan would shake out and whether it could go nuclear
why the British Empire fell apart, why China went communist, how Hitler and Japan could have coordinated to win WW2, and whether Japanese occupation was good for Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria
plus other lessons from WW2, Cold War, and Sino-Japanese War
how to study history properly, and why leaders keep making the same mistakes

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/073V...
Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/sarah...

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Timestamps
(0:00:00) - Grand strategy
(0:11:59) - Death ground
(0:23:19) - WW1
(0:39:23) - Writing history
(0:50:25) - Japan in WW2
(0:59:58) - Ukraine
(1:10:50) - Japan/Germany vs Iraq/Afghanistan occupation
(1:21:25) - Chinese invasion of Taiwan
(1:51:26) - Communists & Axis
(2:08:34) - Continental vs maritime powers