David Stone
William E. Odom Professor of Russian Studies at the U.S. Naval War College and historian of Russian military history, author of award-winning books such as Hammer and Rifle and A Military History of Russia.
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Jan 16, 2026 • 51min
Episode 11: NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Collective Security in the Post - WWII World
Dr. David Stone, historian of Russian military history, and Dr. Timothy Hoyt, counterterrorism and strategy scholar, discuss the strategic logic behind NATO and its Soviet counterpart. They trace postwar economic collapse, ideological competition, crisis triggers that pushed Western commitments, Soviet reactions, the origins of the Warsaw Pact, and why NATO succeeded where earlier collective security efforts failed.
