
Facing Coming Storms: Talking International Defence
Hosted by Peter Apps and Pete Apps · Peter Apps & Urban Podcasts
4.7from 3 ratings
- 51
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 3
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Facing Coming Storms: Talking International Defence
Facing Coming Storms is the new international defence podcast from the British Army’s Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research and the Project for the Study of the 21st Century. From confrontation to conflict, join Peter Apps each Monday for insightful discussions, conversations, and expert analysis. Facing Coming Storms is produced by Urban Podcasts.
- Publisher
- Peter Apps & Urban Podcasts
- Category
- government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Jan 2025
- Latest episode
- 10 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

10 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
NATO's Naval Deterrence

5 Jul 2026
The Global Land Warfare Picture

1 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Higher Standards? Military Values & Ethics
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NATO's Naval Deterrence
Published 10 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It sounds a little bit overreaching, but I think it's true. We're the only component in NATO that actually engages the Russians on a day-to-day basis. We are doing a deterrent dance with them at sea all the time. On land, our troops are on one side of the border and the Russians are on the other side of the border. And if that changes, we've got a real problem. But even for land, even for NATO air power, most of NATO air activity is air policing. The vast majority of air policing happens over allied airspace. Of course, there's a little bit of crossing over the global commons in terms of airspace, but most of it, much of it, is over allied airspace. […]
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Peter Apps and Pete Apps host the show. Published by Peter Apps & Urban Podcasts.
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