{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Episode 8: Military capabilities and great power competition in the 21st century","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5eb41117570358cd673a3a85/652bcaf3ad47c6e53b99b5d3535dcf6a.jpg?height=200","description":"Henry Boyd, IISS Research Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis, joins Dr Kori Schake for this episode of Sounds Strategic.\n \nIn this episode, Kori and Henry explore the military dimensions of the new great power competition emerging between a declining United States, a resurgent Russia and a rising China and their implications for international security and defence. They also discuss the impact Russian intervention in Syria has had on contemporary concepts of the legitimate use of force and the ethics of modern warfare.\n \nHenry goes on to explain why assessing the military capabilities of countries such as the United States and China requires more than a simple measure of their military hardware. Instead, additional factors must be considered, such as organisation, doctrine and training. \n \nHenry also talks about how he first became interested in the subject of defence and security, the virtues of wargaming, and the role human rationale and psychology plays in how we understand modern international affairs, war and policy. \n \nFavourite data visualisation\nRichard J. Heuer Jr, Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, ‘Chapter 12 - Biases in Estimating Probabilities, Figure 18’, CIA\n \nMeasuring perceptions of Uncertainty | Visual Capitalist\nhttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/measuring-perceptions-of-uncertainty/\n \nReading recommendations:\nProfessor Philip Sabin, Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games, (London: Bloomsburg, 2014)\n \nFurther work by the IISS Defence and Military Analysis Programme\nBastian Giegerich, Christian Moelling et al, ‘Could the EU deliver on its military ambitions after Brexit?’, Military Balance blog, (London: IISS, 2018)\n \nIISS Defence and Military Analysis Programme, ‘The Military Balance 2019 wall chart’, The Military Balance 2019, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019)\n\nDate of recording: 8 April 2019\nSounds Strategic is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.\nTheme music: ‘Safety in Numbers’ by We Were Promised Jetpacks.","author_name":"International Institute for Strategic Studies"}