The Principles of War Podcast
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Professional Military Education for Junior Officers and Senior NCOs
The sinking of Force Z was the biggest shock for #Churchill in the #SWW. What role did he play in the decision to send Force Z and why was it flawed? What was he hoping to achieve? How was the operation tactically flawed? Great #JPME lessons. youtu.be/cwkX2HnSWGI
Deception and Self Deception on the Yalu River. The US retreat from the Yalu River was the longest retreat in it's history. How and why was MacArthur surprised and deceived by the PLA? We look at what goes into a great deception plan. #pme #koreanwar youtu.be/8hcCFFOHouU
Tenets of Manoeuvre Warfare - Singapore Campaign. What went right for the Japanese and wrong for the Allies? Tempo, combined arms and Joint Fires and Effects. Allies never overcame Japanese Audacity. #PME #doctrine #sww #history #milhistory #podcast #jpme youtu.be/mySjxue4E54
Was the Fall of Singapore inevitable? We conduct the AAR for the Malaya Campaign. What did the IJA get right and what did the Allies get wrong? Important Lessons Learnt from this forgotten campaign. #history #milhistory #doctrine #OODALoop #pme #jpme youtu.be/p_X-13064XQ
youtu.be/mAuMqPUmFqQ #Leadership #PME. LTCOL Anderson VC faced an impossible dilemma on the bridge at Parit Sulong. What lead the 2/19th Bn there? How did they escape? A great example of leading from the front and courage under fire. #SWW #MalayaCampaign #history #milhistory.
youtu.be/Qw3fa1O-lOI Physical and moral courage at the Battle of Bakri as the 2 pounders of the 4th Anti-Tank Regt and the 2/29th Bn face Type 95 Ha-Gos of the Japanese Imperial Guards Division. We discuss LT Bill McCure and his story at the battle and spending the rest of the…
How Mao’s Army Built a Navy @surprisepodcast Great podcast on the foundation of the #PLAN. Thoroughly recommend listen 👇 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…
Next #PME video is up. Flexible in Malaya, 41-42. How did the Allied and Japanese compare and what benefit did flexibility bring on the battlefield? Littoral Manoeuvre, Mission Command, Battle of Kampar, Recon Pull #doctrine. #SWPA #milhistory #history youtu.be/-o0QD_s5FKE
youtu.be/MNdjLf3Fd-E Next Vid in the #Malayan Campaign - #Sustainment. The Japanese exploited sloppy logistics management by the Allies to support #operationaltempo and create a very tight #OODA loop. #Audacity #PME #Singapore #milhistory #logistics #SWW #history
youtu.be/_fSD6C0qu7I Next episode in the #Malaya series. Too much Economy of Effort and too little Cooperation made it very difficult too mount a cohesive defensive battle as the Allies were pushed down the Peninsula. #pme #jpme #history #sww
The Little Digger, Billy Hughes, addressing troops of the 4th Brigade on July, 2nd, 1918. Just before Hamel.
How did Slim rebuild 14th Army after Burma 1942? #Leadership, lessons learnt, #doctrine development, #morale and mission command all played a part. Great lessons for (re)building an Army for #LSCO from @robert_lyman. theprinciplesofwar.com/leadership/128…
The war 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 of 2025 has nothing to do anymore with the war of 2022. The tactics used in 2022 and 2023 are now completely obsolete on the Ukrainian front and new lessons have been learnt. 🧵THREAD🧵1/20 ⬇️
A big couple of days in the Principles of War CP. Finally ticked over 1,000,000 podcast downloads - thats 70K hours of PME delived via Apple alone. Over 130,000 hours of listened #PME and #JPME in total. On top of that, the Youtube channel has hit 100,000 views and 10,000…
