Mike Martin is a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London and the author of Why We Fight. Today on the show, he draws on his background in biology and experience serving in the British army to offer an explanation as to why individuals and nation-states go to war. Mike argues that there are two fundamental impulses behind the drive to war: the drive for status and the drive for belonging. We discuss these motivations and how leaders and ideologies corral and amplify them. We end our conversation with how this view of war could prevent conflicts and allow them to be fought more successfully, and also be a lens for how to help men flourish in a healthy way.
Resources Related to the Podcast
- AoM series on status
- AoM series on honor
- AoM Podcast #756: How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything
- AoM Podcast #908: Would You Have Been a Patriot or a Loyalist?
- AoM Podcast #419: American Honor — Creating the Nation’s Ideals During the Revolution
- Mike’s latest book: How to Fight a War
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