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The Dead Prussian Podcast – Ep 45: On Experiencing Thucydides

In this episode of The Dead Prussian Podcast, Mick Cook chats with Pauline Shanks Kaurin, an associate professor of Philosophy at the Pacific Lutheran University. They chat about Associate Professor Kaurin’s use of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War to explore the experiences of war on society, morality, and ethical decision-making. She also explains how educators can use their students' experiences to engage with texts.

Artificially Intelligent Engineers – How AI Will Kill All Engineering Jobs

Suitable for junior through to senior officers. May be useful for Command and Staff College and Capability and Technology Management College students. Offers technical insight that is valuable to those not familiar with the field of Artificial Intelligence and potential applications to Defence systems.

The Dead Prussian Podcast – Ep 35: On Soldiers, Squadrons, and Ethicists

In this episode of The Dead Prussian Podcast, Mick Cook chats with Tom McDermott about ethics and war in the modern era. Tom is a military ethicist and serving officer in the Australian Army. His Occasional Paper, Soldiers, Squadrons, and Ethicists, discusses some issues on ethics and strategy as well as possible ways to overcome them.