Battlefield Next
The Battlefield Next network of podcasts is created and hosted by the US Army JAG Corps’ Future Concepts Directorate (FCD). Our flagship podcast, ‘Battlefield Next,’ examines the application of the law to future of armed conflict. ‘Fred Talks,’ presents a more informal look at the history of the JAG Corps in an effort to guide future military legal practitioners.
The Future Concepts Directorate is the JAG Corps’ think tank, and one of four directorates that make up the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center. Located on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, FCD is the subject-matter expert on the application of the law to future conflict. FCD also reviews Army doctrine on behalf of the JAG Corps, and provides the intellectual foundation and disciplined approach to design, develop, and field a JAG Corps that is ready to support the future warfighter.
For more information you can find us on Twitter @jagfcd or by visiting our website at https://tjaglcs.army.mil/fcd. Subscribe today!
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 10: COL Zane E. Finkelstein
The only judge advocate to be decorated for heroism in Vietnam, COL Finkelstein served for over 30 years in the Army JAG Corps. This week Fred tells the story of how a foreign claims mission to a Vie…
00:13:42 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 9: SGM John Nolan
“Recorded in the SGM Nolan reading room and library at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Mr. Borch guides us through the life and decades of exemplary service of the first JAG Cor…
00:14:40 |
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Episode 22: Cadet Fisher
This week we focus on the human component as we hear from ROTC Cadet Isabella Fisher and learn about the ROTC experience and how an aspiring lawyer and JAG Corps officer can navigate the delayed entr…
00:25:34 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 8: Military Commission for the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
Many listeners will be familiar with the military commissions in relation to the war on terror. However, long before those President Andrew Johnson ordered a military tribunal for the Lincoln assassi…
00:21:49 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
Episode 21: Chinese Peacekeepers in Africa
Episode 21 takes us to the AFRICOM AOR where we join MAJ Thomas Dyrenforth, a Foreign Area Officer (FAO) focused on Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, and South Sudan. MAJ Dyrenforth sits down with us to discus…
00:25:33 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
Episode 20: BG Michelle Donahue, the 56th Quartermaster General
Battlefield Next has the honor of hosting the 56th Quartermaster General of the United States Army, BG Michelle Donahue. A graduate of Duke University, BG Donahue also holds advanced degrees from Geo…
00:31:41 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Episode 19: Operation Allies Welcome
In July of 2021, the United States began evacuating Afghans with Special Immigrant Visa Status (or SIV). After the Taliban occupation of Kabul, however, the proverbial flood gates opened and through…
00:39:12 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 7: The History of Fred
Today, something new, something old, something different, something very much the same, BUT something everyone has been waiting with baited breath to hear. Join us as we talk about the history of th…
00:23:59 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 6: The History of the JAG School, Part 2
When we last left off, the US Army JAG Corps was without a home after leaving the University of Michigan in the 1940’s. Part 2 of our series examines the winding path that led us to our current home…
00:17:19 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 5 - The History of the JAG School, Part 1
Episode 5! Judge Advocates have served in the Army since the 18th century, but the idea of a “JAG School” is relatively new. Mr. Borch details the history of the JAG Corp’s first brick and mortar in…
00:19:19 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 4 - The Dark Ages before the UCMJ
Mr. Borch reading from a 123-year-old manual? Sounds like the latest episode of Fred Talks. Join us as Mr. Borch shines a light on the proverbial dark ages before the UCMJ. What was it like to try…
00:15:55 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 3: A Revolution in Military Justice, the MJA of 1968
The Evolution of the Paralegal & Advanced Individual Training (AIT) Mr. Borch takes us through the evolution of the paralegal specialist, both their role and their training. From legal clerk to para…
00:13:27 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Episode 18: An Interview with CSM Josh Quinton
CSM Quinton is the Command Sergeant Major of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School and the Commandant of the NCO Academy in Charlottesville, VA. Join us as he explores his past, the re…
00:21:52 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 2: The Evolution of the Paralegal & Advanced Individual Training (AIT)
The Evolution of the Paralegal & Advanced Individual Training (AIT) Mr. Borch takes us through the evolution of the paralegal specialist, both their role and their training. From legal clerk to para…
00:15:39 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Episode 17: Trail Blazing at USMA, an Interview with COL (Ret) Donna Wright
COL(Ret) Donna Wright was a member of the US Military Academy at West Point’s first coeducational class. Join us as she discusses trailblazing in the military, from her Academy beginnings to her car…
00:50:52 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Fred Talks on Battlefield Next - Episode 1: The Metamorphosis of the JAG Corps)
I’d like to welcome you to something a little bit different on the Battlefield Next network of podcasts. You all have I’m sure heard of the world-famous, hard-hitting, cutting edge discussions on soc…
00:17:23 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Episode 16: An American Lieutenant Colonel in Andover
Continuing our focus on interoperability, today we journey across the pond to interview Lieutenant Colonel Christofer T. Franca, a U.S. Army Judge Advocate embedded with British Army Forces. LTC Fran…
00:18:24 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Episode 15: An Interview of Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Farquhar of the British Army Legal Service
On today’s episode, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Farquhar and Major Jason Coffey discuss the Army Legal Service, his background, his role at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center, and his focus on i…
00:22:00 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Episode 14: Judge Advocates in the Great War
On today’s episode, Mr. Fred L. Borch* and Major Jason C. Coffey discuss Judge Advocates in the Great War, covering the pre-World War I Judge Advocate General’s Corps, its expansion after the United …
00:29:03 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
Episode 13: A Preview of Mr. Fred Borch's Remarks at the Nuremberg Trial Symposium on 19 Nov 2020
On today’s episode, Major Keoni Medici** interviews Mr. Fred Borch on his remarks for the symposium commemorating the 75th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg on 19 Novemb…
00:33:57 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
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