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Episode 49 – Higher Standards? Military Values & Ethics
In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we talk varying multinational approaches military ethics with CHACR director Major General Andrew Sharpe, Colonel Dennis Katolin of the US Marine Corps, Colonel Matthias Strohn of the German Army Reserve (also head of historical analysis at CHACR) and Michelle Richards, former British army… Listen ⇢
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Episode 48 – Special Operations: The Network Shaping Modern Warfare
We’re recording this from Tampa ahead of Special Operations Forces Week, and it felt like the perfect moment to dig into a world that operates mostly in the shadows but plays a huge role in how modern conflict and defence actually works. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we… Listen ⇢
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Episode 47 – How Mideast Conflict Highlights a Changing World
Host Peter Apps is joined by US Naval War College Professor Nikolas Gvosdev and CHACR director Major General Andrew Sharpe to unpack “Operation Epic Fury” and what it tells us about modern warfare. What starts as a discussion about Iran quickly turns into something much bigger. This is about how… Listen ⇢
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Episode 46 – NATO 2026: Decisions, Divisions and Delivering Deterrence
In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we are talking to NATO expert Sten Rynning, Professor of War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and Eva Sula, a former Estonian government official turned defence industry adviser also as a mentor for NATO tech innovation hub DIANA. Following the fallout… Listen ⇢
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Episode 45 – US, Allies Kick Off Unpredictable but Critical 2026
In our first episode of 2026, we couldn’t have asked for a stronger panel – three experts who’ve spent their careers wrestling with the grey-zone threats reshaping global security. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, I bring together Major General Andrew Sharpe (Director of CHACR), Colonel Mietta Groeneveld (Director of the NATO Command… Listen ⇢
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Episode 44 – What War Movies Really Tell us
What do war films really teach us – not just about conflict, but about who we think we are, and what we believe we’d do when it matters? In this Christmas episode of Facing Coming Storms, we step slightly sideways from our usual focus on geopolitics and defence technology to explore war movies and… Listen ⇢
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“Boots, Bots and Drones: From the ‘Grey Zone’ to Total War” London one-day conference, January 28, 2026
National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London,January 28, 2026, 10 AM-5 PM Virtual and in-person tickets available here As the world enters the second half of the 2020s, the international competition of the first part of the century has escalated firmly to confrontation between the West and more authoritarian powers –… Listen ⇢
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Episode 43 – Defence Tech, Innovation and Institutional Inertia
What happens when the speed of modern warfare outpaces the systems designed to manage it? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we are joined by Eva Sula, Estonian defence advisor and mentor at NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator (DIANA), and Robert Fetters, former U.S. Army paratrooper and special operations officer now working in… Listen ⇢
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Episode 42 – Inside Ukraine’s Drone Revolution
From volunteering in March 2022 to whispering in the ear of Ukraine’s High Command and authoring the paper that birthed an entirely new branch of the military, Ukrainian-born Canadian national Illya Sekirin has been at the heart of Ukraine’s drone revolution rewriting the rules of warfare. We explore the thinking that led… Listen ⇢
Executive Director, Peter Apps.
Peter Apps is executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21), a global defence columnist for Reuters and presenter of the “Facing Coming Storms” global defence podcast from PS21 and the British Army’s think tank the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).
