Dr. Michael Livingston , Professor at The Citadel and author of Crécy: Battle of Five Kings, joins the show to discuss the Hundred Years War, medieval warfare, and the English victory at the battle of Crécy.▪️Times • 01:53 Introduction• 02:33 Why Crécy• 05:53 The Hundred Years War• 10:29 The French-Scottish connection • 14:08 Why invade France at all?• 20:51 Strengths/Weaknesses• 26:00 Medieval command and control• 34:01 Crécy the legend• 38:24 French losses• 39:17 Crécy the reality• 44:29 Costly French decisions• 51:11 The King of Bohemia’s last ride• 57:52 Hundred Years War ends
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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...