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Phillips Payson O'Brien

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Phillips Payson O’Brien is Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews. He is the author of The Strategists, How the War Was Won and The Second Most Powerful Man in the World. He has written for The Atlantic, The Spectator and Foreign Affairs, and has a combined following of more than 300k on X and Substack.

Books by Phillips Payson O'Brien
War and Power
Phillips Payson O'Brien

A bold, revisionist study which challenges modern misconceptions about the creation of power and the operations of war, from a Professor of Strategic Studies

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The Strategists
Phillips Payson O'Brien

A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the mindsets and strategic decisions of WW2's most important leaders

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