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Episode 37: Information Operation: Navigating the New Battleground
What if the real frontline of modern conflict isn’t on the battlefield, but in the minds and screens of everyday people? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by Simon Paterson, former British Army Intelligence officer and head of strategic partnerships at Boone Global, and Margot… Listen ⇢
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Episode 36: Inside U.S. Defence Uncertainty
Power without a plan: what happens when the world’s strongest military hits pause? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Pete Apps sits down with Nikolas Gvosdev, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Professor of National Security Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, to unpack the geopolitical and… Listen ⇢
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Episode 35: The View from Australia
As the balance shifts beneath our feet, new maps are drawn – not on paper, but in power itself. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by Dr Peter Layton, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer and visiting fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, to unpack how changing power dynamics… Listen ⇢
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Episode 34: Ben Barry: The Rise and Fall of the British Army
What happens when an army built for the past must face an uncertain future? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps sits down with Ben Barry – Senior Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and author of The Rise and Fall of the British… Listen ⇢
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Episode 33 – Preparing for Tomorrow’s Battles: Lessons from History
What if the wars of the future look nothing like the wars of the past? In this live edition of Facing Coming Storms, recorded at the Hereford Military History Festival, Pete Apps is joined by two leading voices on conflict: Sir Antony Beevor, Britain’s most acclaimed military historian, and Patrick… Listen ⇢
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Episode 32: A New World of Navel Technology and Risk
What if the next great naval revolution was already underway? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps speaks with Admiral Niels Vang-former head of the Danish Navy and Danish Defence College, now senior naval advisor and defence industry board member-about the future of maritime warfare in an era… Listen ⇢
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Episode 31 – NATO in Flux: Sten Rynning on America, Europe and the New Divide
What if NATO’s biggest threat wasn’t Russia but America’s retreat? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we welcome back Sten Rynning, Professor of War Studies at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies and lecturer at the NATO Defence College. Author of NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, Sten returns to… Listen ⇢
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Episode 30 – Ukraine: The Bigger Picture with Bob Seely
The war in Ukraine is not just a regional conflict – it is a testing ground for the future of warfare and a frontline in the wider confrontation between authoritarian regimes and the West. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by Bob Seely, former Member of Parliament, reservist and author… Listen ⇢
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Episode 29 – Shifting Defence Technology in the Twenties
What if cutting-edge technology could redefine global defence strategies? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by James Black, Deputy Director at RAND Europe and an expert in strategic competition and emerging technologies. Together, they explore the transformative power of defence technology, its profound implications for… 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).
