Dr. Christopher C. Harmon, "Cooperation & Contest: Churchill’s Views on Great Powers, 1944-1946"

In this episode, #TeamKrulak is excited to bring back the very first guest we had on the #BruteCast series: Dr. Christopher C. Harmon, the Krulak Center’s Donald Bren Chair of Great Power Competition for Marine Corps University and its Foundation. He is lead author or editor of seven books, and his research into two British archives is reflected in his essay about Churchill called “Vision of Victory” in World War II magazine (2005). He has written on the Allies’ coalition warfare and done a study of area bombing entitled “Are We Beasts?”—the title being a question Churchill put to himself. This month Dr. Harmon concluded an elective course at Expeditionary Warfare School on “Churchill and WWII” and he has taught many related classes at Marine Corps University’s Command & Staff College and War College. He serves on the board of academic advisors for the International Churchill Society and has published essays with “The Churchill Project” at Hillsdale College. He is also on the board of advisors for the website “Classics of Strategy and Diplomacy.”

Dr. Harmon joins us on this episode because March 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the Fulton Missouri address by Winston S. Churchill, where Churchill invoked the clattering down of a communist “iron curtain” across Europe. The British statesman voiced many themes and broad hopes in that address, as he did in speeches and state papers of the years 1944, 1945, and 1946. As examples, he advocated a “World Organization” for international security, a formally-unified Europe, and a summit with the Soviet Union. In this episode, Dr. Harmon explores what we can learn from those themes in today’s world of renewed great power competition.

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