New Books in Military History · Marshall Poe

Amos Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady, "Multidomain Operations: The Pursuit of Battlefield Dominance in the 21st Century" (Howgate Publishing, 2026)

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Amos Fox joins the show to talk about multidomain operations and the problem the concept is trying to solve in contemporary military thinking. He is careful about it. From there, the discussion widens into the habits of military debate, where tidy narratives about war can hide the harder realities of systems, logistics, and adaptation. The war comes up often. Fox uses it to show how quickly theory can be tested by events, and how a war can move toward positional fighting when armies are forced to prioritize survival over elegance. Narratives come under pressure. He argues that commentators should stop putting their own stories about war and warfare ahead of war itself, because doctrine only works when it is anchored in actual conditions. Systems matter. That is why he keeps returning to the need for clear articulation and a practical understanding of how systems operate before they are made into the backbone of a warfighting concept. He is blunt about assumptions. Fox warns that U.S. commentary often slips into cultural chauvinism, especially when it treats Russia as automatically weak, incompetent, or unable to fight well. He does not let that stand. Instead, he points to military history as a corrective, noting that Russia has won many times in many places, with consequences that have mattered strategically. History keeps the argument honest. The interview does not reduce the subject to a simple pro- or anti-Russian frame; it insists on realism, on wins and losses, and on what those outcomes reveal about how war is actually fought. The talk also stays close to the intellectual work behind the conversation. Fox mentions other papers in progress and says the manuscript is currently aimed at a June 2027 turnaround, though he hopes to finish sooner. The closing stretch stays understated. It ends with a brief look at his writing life and coaching, leaving the listener with a steady, unsensational account of how he thinks about war, evidence, and military history.

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A clear-eyed talk about modern war, systems, and the cost of easy assumptions.

Amos Fox's conversation stays focused on clear thinking about modern war, and on resisting tidy stories that move faster than the realities of systems, logistics, and adaptation. It works best when it pauses to show how projecting U.S.

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