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19th and 20th C military history book – “Arguing About Alliances” (Cornell University Press, 2019) – Paul Poast interview

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Paul Poast is a professor and writer in the field of International Relations. We spoke about his latest book on how military pacts are negotiated.

1:00 – Paul talks about his research on military pacts.

3:53 – Paul talks about the 1939 negotiations between the French, British and Soviet Union.

7:13 – The book covers the early 1800s to WWII.

9:09 – Paul talks about elemenst of negotiation.

12:34 – Paul talks about transparency in negotiations.

15:27 – Paul talks about the 1901 pact negotiations between Britain and Germany.

20:39 – Paul talks about worries about changes of government during negotiations.

24:12 – Paul talks about the limited duration of military pacts.

28:06 – Paul talks about the differences between pacts negotiated during peace and during war.

53:17 – Paul talks about how the 1916 Wheat Executive agreement of WWI is the template for a lot of modern treaties.

56:17 – Paul talks about how much of western international relations studies are focused on Russia.

59:23 – Paul can be found on twitter @ProfPaulPoast. He’s also at PaulPoast.com.

Links of interest

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501740244/arguing-about-alliances/

https://twitter.com/ProfPaulPoast?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

http://www.paulpoast.com/

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Guests: Paul Poast

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, military pacts, Britain, france, soviet union, NATO, germany, austria-hungary, europe, east asia, japan, cornell university, international relations, WWI, Jean Monet

WWII and Cold War history book – “War in the American Pacific and East Asia, 1941-1972” (University of Kentucky Press, 2019) – Hal Friedman interview

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Dr. Hal M. Friedman is Associate Chair of History and Professor of Modern History at Henry Ford College. He has published multiple books on U.S. national security policy in the immediate postwar Pacific. He recently edited a book on the same subject and we spoke about the subject matter and the process of publishing essay collections.

0:46 Hal talks about how he got into writing on this subject and how his father had fought in WWII.

3:25 – Hal wanted to do a collection that marked the 60th anniversary of Operation Crossroads. He talks about how this collection came about.

6:16 – Hal talks about the essays in the book and the Pacific thread that binds them together.

9:25 – Hal talks about his trilogy on American national security in the Pacific basin and how those connect to this book.   The U.S. dropped Japan as the main enemy and replaced it with the Soviet Union.

11:00 – Hal brings up the term American Lake for the Pacific.

15:00 – Hal talks about the goals of the US Navy before and after WWII.

21:00 – Hal talks about how the nuclear situation was addressed right after WWII.

24:20 – Hal talks about how European colonialism affected American security plans in the Pacific.

27:04 – Hal talks about how the US tried to eject all non-native foreigners, including European Catholic missionaries, from the Micronesia Islands.

30:22 – Hal discusses the economics of the American security program in the Pacific.

44:00 – Hal talks about how he put the book together.

46:19 – Hal discusses how R1 type institutions don’t respect other institutions as much as they should.

47:52 – Hal talks about the difficulties of putting together a book of history essays.

50:00 – Hal talks about the Association of the US Army authors’ day and how helpful University of Kentucky Press has been.

52:39 – Hal talks about his next project – U.S. war plans for the Pacific from 1945-1947.

53:39 – Hal can be found at the University of Kentucky Press website.

56:36 – Hal mentions that the history field is doing badly.

Links of interest

https://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=5527#.XY_4w397mM8

https://www.tamupress.com/search-results/?keyword=Arguing-over-the-American-Lake

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Guests: Hal Friedman

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Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, crossroads, naval history, pacific war, kentucky, henry ford, micronesia, navy, marines, marshall, chiang kai-shek, okinawa, Soviet Union, Japan, communism, nuclear war, spruance, colonialism, Interior, AUSA, OPLANS