Ep 102: Paul Edgar on the Warfare of the Ancient Near East School of War

Paul Edgar, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a scholar of ancient Near Eastern warfare, joins the show to talk about war and peace in the old days—the very old days.
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    •    02:58 Introduction 
    •    10:07 Olmsted
    •    16:00 The Bronze Age
    •   22:07 Verifying history
    •    27:12 Idrimi
    •    35:03 How did they fight?
    •    39:46 Tactics of the time
    •   42:34 Continuities in geopolitics

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