Mick Cook
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The Dead Prussian Podcast aims to explore War and Warfare through discussion and analysis of military theory, historical events, contemporary conflicts, and expert interviews.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mick Cook connects military theory to historical cases, institutional choices and the human consequences of command.
Mick Cook keeps returning to the machinery behind military action: who holds authority and how institutions turn decisions into force. His interview questions move between theory and practice, drawing on his own experience in Afghanistan while giving guests room to define…
Mick Cook asks what 'meaningful human control' means, so you don't have to pretend you know.
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A steady look at how command structures shape speed, flexibility, and outcomes in war.
The Dead Prussian Podcast spends this hour on how command posts, planning systems, and delayed orders shape what happens in a conflict zone. Mick opens with the question of how anyone can know what to do while still waiting two months for permission, and the discussion follows…
A sharp, thoughtful look at autonomous weapons, human responsibility, and the uneasy boundary between warfare and property damage.
The Dead Prussian uses autonomous warfare to press on a hard ethical problem: if machines can fight, choose plans, and select targets, where does responsibility sit?
A grounded military conversation about mission failure, service, and the people living with the fallout.
The episode keeps mission failure, institutional response, and lived experience in the same frame. It stays close to the people inside the military, which gives the discussion more weight than a familiar budgets-and-hardware rundown.
A practical look at how war is fought in stories as much as force.
This episode treats strategic narrative as a real contest, not a slogan. Mick Cook keeps the focus on how competing stories are built, challenged, and used to make sense of war, with commanders, domestic audiences, and adversaries all pulling on the same thread.
A theory-led episode that frames irregular war through sovereign dysfunction.
This episode takes a theory-first approach to irregular war and keeps sovereign dysfunction at the center of the argument. It spends real time on how social, territorial, and political violence sharpen when sovereign power loses its grip, and the French Revolution gives the case…
Outnumbered units, remembered under fire.
Battle maps, war films, and patient context.
War news, tested against military reality.
Antique European history, read aloud.
Twenty years of sacrifice, then the mission fails. Now soldiers wonder if any of it was worth it
Jim Storr says Western land headquarters grew slowly from 1945 to 1990, then expanded faster during wars of choice and peace-support operations.
Mick Cook interviews Dr.