{"podcast":{"title":"Books to Battles","slug":"books-to-battles-7380576","podcast_index_feed_id":7380576,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/books-to-battles/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/books-to-battles","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/books-to-battles/20250701_080726_7fe0c952cfb72054c89c2c16d1930989.png","author":"School of Advanced Air and Space Studies","episode_count":42,"summary":"Books to Battles is the official podcast of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), where rigorous academic thought meets real-world military application. In each episode, we'll take you inside our school to explore its courses, students, and faculty. We'll show how foundational ideas—from classic works of strategy to cutting-edge scholarship—inform the development and execution of air and space power in today’s complex strategic environment. Join us as we bridge the gap between theory and practice, bringing deep intellectual insight to the art of war in the air and beyond. All views expressed in this series are the speakers' own and are not necessarily reflective of the Department of Defense, the US government, or any other affiliated organizations.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-to-battles-7380576"},"episode":{"title":"SAASS 633 - Coercion and Deterrence","slug":"saass-633-coercion-and-deterrence","published_at":"2026-01-14T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-to-battles-7380576/saass-633-coercion-and-deterrence","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-to-battles-7380576","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/books-to-battles/2401596","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/333678/2401596/books-to-battles/2025_12_19_20_46_02_602ee8dc-b513-4abe-a0ef-83e0d217cb11.mp3","summary":"Dr. Whitman Cobb and Col Hollon welcome the teaching team for SAASS 633: Coercion and Deterrence in Theory and Practice . Dr. Paige Reid and Lt Col Rachel Reynolds discuss the origins and evolution of the course along with its central question: “how do you get someone to do what you want them to do?” The team breaks down why the class drops students straight into the nuclear age, how thinkers like Brodie, Schelling, and Pape square off, and why debates over airpower, punishment, and denial still matter today. They also dig into the emotional side of coercion, sparring with Markwica’s challenge to the rational-actor model. The episode closes with an inside look at the course’s culminating tabletop exercise, which pushes students to apply theories of coercion to contemporary great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific. Books mentioned in this episode Bernard Brodie, Strategy in the Missile Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016). Thomas C. Schelling, Arms and Influence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). Daniel Byman and Matthew C. Waxman The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Brad Roberts, The Case for US Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century (Stanford: Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2016). Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996). Robin Markwica, Emotional Choices: How the Logic of Affect Shapes Coercive Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).","meta_description":"Dr. Whitman Cobb and Col Hollon welcome the teaching team for SAASS 633: Coercion and Deterrence in Theory and Practice . Dr. Paige Reid and Lt Col Rachel…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2672,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/books-to-battles-7380576/episodes/saass-633-coercion-and-deterrence/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/books-to-battles-7380576/saass-633-coercion-and-deterrence.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}