Episode 11: Napoleon Bonaparte: Soldier, Strategist, Emperor


Join Professor Alan Forrest in a compelling discussion with podcast hosts Beatrice and Paul on Napoleon's enduring 'system of war' as interpreted by Jomini and Clausewitz.

Napoleon is admired as one of the greatest strategists ever; he won most of his battles and dictated the terms of the peace treaties that ended his individual wars. Yet in the end, he was defeated, and his empire fell apart. So how great a strategist was he really?

Professor Alan Forrest joins Beatrice and Paul for this episode. A graduate of Aberdeen and Oxford, he was formerly the Chair of Modern History at York University, where he taught from 1989 to 2012. A prolific author, he is the general editor of a 2023 three-volume Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars.


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Beatrice Heuser

Senior Associate Fellow

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Paul O’Neill

Former RUSI Senior Research Fellow, Military Sciences

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