Ep 252: Andrew Lambert on the British Empire’s Strategic Challenges and America’s Today

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Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and ⁠No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One⁠,  joins the show to discuss how the British Empire maintained the balance in Europe between the fall of Napoleon to the summer of 1914.

Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and <a href="https://a.co/d/0VsuVjd">No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One</a>,  joins the show to discuss how the British Empire maintained the balance in Europe between the fall of Napoleon to the summer of 1914.
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02:59 Studying the Problem of War
06:20 British Perspectives of the European Coast
11:33 The French Likelihood of Invading Britain 
21:40 The Scheldt River Estuary 
30:33 Marlborough, Wellington, and Eisenhower 
36:48 The 19th Century and the Rise of Steampower
47:35 Divided attention and British Mistakes of 1914
54:40 The Failure of British Strategic Off-Shore Balancing
 
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