{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65f42e61a0626800170ad90d/6a1ada8bf2cdbf5953ebc3de?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why the Empire Loses, w Richard Drayton (E13)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65f42e61a0626800170ad90d/1780506060033-e9676037-3d7e-422b-a7c7-cf56e86ea24e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Has capitalism's American-led empire sown the seeds of its own military defeat?</p><p>The Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London, Richard Drayton, joins the pod to talk about how military technology, and the political economy it's embedded in, have yet again changed the face of war.</p><p>The Party Line is a podcast from The Ditch, <a href=\"ontheditch.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ontheditch.com</a> – hosted by Harry Browne and Niamh Ní Bhriain, with Paulie Doyle from The Ditch.</p><p>'RTÉ faces potential investigation over GAA Allianz programme' <a href=\"https://www.ontheditch.com/rte-faces-potential-investigation/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.ontheditch.com/rte-faces-potential-investigation/</a></p><p>'Chambers's business class flight and five-star hotel' <a href=\"https://www.ontheditch.com/jack-chambers-enjoyed-business-class/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.ontheditch.com/jack-chambers-enjoyed-business-class/</a></p><p>'Maybe we should ask Ireland’s small population of Jews what they think about anti-Semitism' <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/ytwfrk6e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://tinyurl.com/ytwfrk6e</a></p><p><br></p><p>Music: Fionn Dempsey</p><p>Recording: Emmet White and (for Drayton interview) Harry Browne</p><p>Email theditchpartyline at gmail</p>","author_name":"The Ditch"}