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Facing Coming Storms is the new international defence podcast from the British Army’s Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research and the Project for the Study of the 21st Century.From confrontation to conflict, join Peter Apps each Monday for insightful discussions, conversations, and expert analysis.Facing Coming Storms is produced by Urban Podcasts.
Peter Apps & Urban Podcasts hosts Facing Coming Storms: Talking International Defence, a news show with 49 episodes published.
In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we talk varying multinational approaches military ethics with CHACR director Major General Andrew Sharpe, Colonel Dennis Katolin of the US Marine Corps, Colonel Matthias Strohn of
We're recording this from Tampa ahead of Special Operations Forces Week, and it felt like the perfect moment to dig into a world that operates mostly in the shadows but plays a huge role in how modern conflict and defenc
Host Peter Apps is joined by US Naval War College Professor Nikolas Gvosdev and CHACR director Major General Andrew Sharpe to unpack “Operation Epic Fury” and what it tells us about modern warfare. What starts as a discu
In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we are talking to NATO expert Sten Rynning, Professor of War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and Eva Sula, a former Estonian government official turned defence indus
In our first episode of 2026, we couldn’t have asked for a stronger panel – three experts who’ve spent their careers wrestling with the grey-zone threats reshaping global security. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms
What do war films really teach us - not just about conflict, but about who we think we are, and what we believe we’d do when it matters? In this Christmas episode of Facing Coming Storms , we step slightly sideways
What happens when the speed of modern warfare outpaces the systems designed to manage it? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms , we are joined by Eva Sula , Estonian defence advisor and mentor at NATO’s De
From volunteering in March 2022 to whispering in the ear of Ukraine’s High Command and authoring the paper that birthed an entirely new branch of the military, Ukrainian-born Canadian national Illya Sekirin has been at t
What happens when the West stops writing the rules and every middle power starts playing its own game at the same time? Peter Apps reunites with Samir Puri, Director of the Centre for Global Governance and Security at Ch
We talk with neurologist Dr Nicholas Wright – adviser to the Pentagon Joint Staff and US nuclear strategists amongst others on the functioning of the brain – about his new book "Warhead", which dissects modern conflict a
As winter grips Ukraine's frontlines and Chinese warships circle Taiwan, the shadows of escalation stretch across two hemispheres, testing alliances and resolve. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps conven
What if the UK's defence future hinges not on its own capabilities, but on bridging gaps in an unpredictable US partnership? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps speaks with Matthew Savill, Director of Mil
What if the real frontline of modern conflict isn’t on the battlefield, but in the minds and screens of everyday people? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by Simon Paterson, former British Arm
Power without a plan: what happens when the world’s strongest military hits pause? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Pete Apps sits down with Nikolas Gvosdev, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
As the balance shifts beneath our feet, new maps are drawn - not on paper, but in power itself. In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps is joined by Dr Peter Layton, retired Royal Australian Air Force officer
What happens when an army built for the past must face an uncertain future? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps sits down with Ben Barry - Senior Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis at the Internatio
What if the wars of the future look nothing like the wars of the past? In this live edition of Facing Coming Storms, recorded at the Hereford Military History Festival, Pete Apps is joined by two leading voices on confli
What if the next great naval revolution was already underway? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, Peter Apps speaks with Admiral Nils Wang - former head of the Danish Navy and Danish Defence College, now senior nava
What if NATO's biggest threat wasn't Russia but America's retreat? In this episode of Facing Coming Storms, we welcome back Sten Rynning, Professor of War Studies at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies and lecturer
The war in Ukraine is not just a regional conflict – it is a testing ground for the future of warfare and a frontline in the wider confrontation between authoritarian regimes and the West. In this episode of Facing Comin
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