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Frontline special - War Studies academic and historian Sir Lawrence Freedman

In this extended Frontline conversation respected historian and war studies academic, Sir Larence Freedman, discusses why Vladimir Putin must play down Ukraine's Kursk invasion as his whole regime is at risk because of it.


The World in 10 is the Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security. Expert analysis of war, diplomatic relations and cyber security from The Times' foreign correspondents and military specialists. 


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