2024.03.26.

Podcast

War and the Threat of Self-Deception

"In war it is perfectly acceptable to lie to your enemy," says Professor David Betz of King's College London, "lying to yourself, though, is the kiss of death". In this episode of the Buda Hills Podcast, we discuss the ways in which Professor Betz thinks the collective West has been lying to itself about war in the twenty-first century.