Combat and Classics Podcast
Summary: Combat and Classics is a series of podcasts and free online seminars for active duty, reserve, and veteran U.S. military members, sponsored by St. John’s College. The podcasts and seminars encourage deep thought and reflection by leaders in the company of their peers. In the discussion-based seminars devoted to what a leader must be and know, participants study historical and fictional leaders from the great books of the western canon. We examine techniques and examples of persuasion and fundamental questions on the nature of man. When participants take the time to reflect, with their peers, on the principles of leadership, they find that they return to their lives and professional positions energized and focused, with a deeper understanding of the context of their decisions, decision-making processes, and leadership roles.
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- Artist: Brian Wilson
- Copyright: Brian Wilson
Podcasts:
Ep.19: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Ep. 18: Racine's Phedre
Ep. 17: Freud's On Transience
Ep. 16: Interview with Anne Kniggendorf
Ep. 15: Shelley's Frankenstein
Ep. 14: Chekhov's "Rothschild's Violin"
Ep. 13: Plato's Phaedo
What role do lying and deception play in achieving strategic objectives? Jeff, Lise and Brian discuss that and other questions as raised by Sophocles in Philoktetes, in which a soldier (Philoktetes) is recovered from an island where he was left after being wounded. His significance arises from his possession is the famed bow of Heracles, which the characters Odysseus and Neoptolemus believe is necessary to win the Trojan war.
Ep. 11: Rousseau's "First Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
Ep. 10: Anton Chekhov's "The Student"
Ep. 9: Joseph Conrad's "Typhoon"
Ep. 8: Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer"
Ep. 7: Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Ep. 6: Plato's Symposium
Ep. 5: Aristophanes' "Birds"
