SERIES 02

How to train a Military

How do you train the optimal military force for the wars to come? Learning, education, training and simulation are all tackled as priorities in this podcast as a series of interviews with experts who think about military training. A lot.

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SEASON 1 / EP.Trailer
Trailer episode: Why now and why is this an important conversation?
Military training budgets are getting hot in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Holding big live exercises is expensive....

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SEASON 1 / EP.1
Training for lethality, readiness and deterrence
Former UK Chief of Defence Staff General David Richards talks to Peter Roberts about how important training is in...

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  • David Richards

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SEASON 1 / EP.2
Simulation has changed military training. A lot.
When militaries started using simulators back in the 1930s, live training remained the priority. Things have reversed...

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  • Charles Krulak

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SEASON 1 / EP.3
First learn, then train, then fight
You can train a military as much as you want, but if you are not training the right skills for the coming fight, it is...

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  • Dr Aimée Fox

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SEASON 1 / EP.4
Whither the intellectual renaissance in education and training?
After their experience in Vietnam, the US military actively pursued thinking about warfare in different ways – and...

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  • Heather Venable

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SEASON 1 / EP.5
What could the military learn from civil teaching and training?
Teacher training includes education processes, systems, human behaviours and methods of engagement with students. That...

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  • Kate Heatton

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SEASON 1 / EP.6
Money, exercises and simulation
Peter talks to Professor Jim Storr about the use of simulators in the British military since the 1980s. Why and how...

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  • Jim Storr

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SEASON 1 / EP.7
Military training, Primes and SMEs
As simulators have taken an increasingly prominent role in military training since the 1980s, their complexity – and...

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  • Alan Roan

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SEASON 1 / EP.8
Credibility is about training people not buying equipment
The capability of a military force is often measured by the equipment it operates. If a cursory examination of combat...

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  • Tess Butler

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SEASON 1 / EP.9
Combat, Training and Culture
Different cultures conduct military training and education in very different ways. The Israeli Defence Force might be...

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SEASON 1 / EP.10
Harder than your worst day in combat
The best training many of us experienced has always taken us outside of our comfort zone. For military forces this is...

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SEASON 1 / EP.13
Fighting and Debating
Good wartime commanders are very different to those who excel in peace. How do we educate and train people for both...

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  • Emilie Claret

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SEASON 1 / EP.14
Best Tank on the Battlefield?
The best tank on the battlefield is determined by the best crew inside it, not the best...

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  • Kate Heaton

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SEASON 1 / EP.15
So What Did We Learn?
This first series of this podcast on military training has taken us from World War One to modern day combat operations,...

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SEASON 2 / EP.1
Naval Training: Putting People First
For decades, navies have crewed the ship ‘cos the ship fights (the people – apparently – didn’t). According to...

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  • RAdm Jude Terry

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SEASON 2 / EP.2
Can Partnering Work in Military Training?
Commercial arrangements with providers of military training are usually transactional: most will have experienced how...

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  • David Hook

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SEASON 2 / EP.3
Combat Engineers – trained to fix stuff under fire
On any modern battlefield, the people you want most in a fight – be it in urban terrain or facing a determined...

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  • Brigadier Caroline Woodbridge-Lewin

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SEASON 2 / EP.4
The Captain’s Warfare Course
The CWC provides junior officers with the skills they need to plan and execute operations at the Battlegroup to Brigade...

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  • Major Vicky Fraser

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SEASON 2 / EP.5
The Engine
Everyone seems to be talking about technology as the engine of future training but sometimes that drives a conversation...

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  • Mark Holland

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SEASON 2 / EP.6
CWC: Learning and Development
In this episode we go back down to Warminster – for the second of a series of interviews with the staff of the...

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  • Mark Hawthorne

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SEASON 2 / EP.7
Military Training: What Needs to Change?
In 2023, a report by the Royal United Services Institute on military training didn't make headlines. And that's a shame...

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  • Pat Hinton

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SEASON 2 / EP.9
CWC – The Directing Staff
The Captain's Warfare Course in Warminster delivers the key skills to the people expected to execute 'the fight' in the...

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  • Rhys Pogson-Hughes-Emanuel

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SEASON 2 / EP.11
The Grizz
Two Junior NCOs from the British Army talk about their experiences of the Armoured Close Recce course in Warminster...

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SEASON 2 / EP.12
CWC – The Graduates
Peter sits down with two officers from the British Army who had just completed the culminating exercise of the...

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SEASON 2 / EP.13
The British Army Land Training System
Over the past 12 months the British Army has designed a model to train its entire force to a set standard. It will also...

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  • Major General Chris Barry

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SEASON 2 / EP.14
How will this feel different?
The competition for a commercial strategic partner for the British Army as part of the Land Training System continues....

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  • Steve Hart, Omnia Training

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