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Recorded: July 15, 2024 As survivors of the wretched 1970s, your humble podcasters discuss this weekend's attempted assassination of Donald Trump & the possibility of the return of assassinations as a national pastime... Total time: 55:59 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check ou

Guest: Trita Parsi, Quincy Institute Recorded: July 11, 2024 This episode we're going back to the 2-segment format: making sense of the Iran elections, with Trita Parsi; and we discuss War, the newly-translated antiwar novel by the 20th-c French author Céline. First - We talk tornadoes & dust devils. At 10:31 - Trita Parsi joins us to discuss Iran's presidential elections &

Recorded: July 9, 2024 This episode, we say goodbye to friend of the show Genghis, discuss death, demons, Biden, the Gaza genocide, and end on a nearly hopeful note... Total time: 1:06:37 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check out the Radio War Nerd Merch store here! Order your print

Guest: Annibale Recorded: July 3, 2024 Annibale is back with part 2 of his Operation Bagration series (part 1 here). This episode, we discuss the Red Army's initial breakthroughs in Belarus beginning on June 22, 1944, along the Vitebsk-Orsha line, Mogilev, and Bobriusk. *Check out part 1 of Annibale's Operation Bagration series, EP #453. Total time: 1:50:18 Direct link to this epis

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 28, 2024 We're joined by friend of the pod Annibale to discuss the Soviets' Operation Bagration in 1944, one of the most decisive military campaigns in history. This episode, Annibale sets up the back story to Bagration: the Tehran Conference in 1943, Soviet advances into western Ukraine in later 1943 and early 1944, and some background on D-Day. Firs

Recorded: June 26, 2024 We review the Malayan Emergency 1948-1960, the gruesome British counterinsurgency that's held up as an example of COIN that "worked." Total time: 1:10:13 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check out the Radio War Nerd Merch store here! Order your print or ebook

Recorded: June 19, 2024 Last month, the US accused Russia of using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine — chloropicrin, and CS tear gas — adding new sanctions in response. We discuss actual US policy re: banned CS gas in warfare, chloropicrin in your strawberries, and recover some lost history of US military's widespread use of tear gas as a battlefield weapon in the Vietnam War.

Guest: Peter Korotaev, Events In Ukraine Recorded: June 17, 2024 We talk to Peter Korotaev about his substack Events In Ukraine, an unvarnished look at how Ukrainians report on life in George Packer's democratic dreamland. Listen to EP #319 with Peter, "Escape From Kiev" Total time: 1:43:54 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowar

Recorded: June 12, 2024 Here's part 2 of The War Nerd's Belisarius series. This episode, after Justinian consolidates power in Constantinople, he sends Belisarius to reconquer the western Roman Empire, first in North Africa, then the Italian peninsula, besting Germanic barbarians wherever he lands. You can guess how much good Belisarius's undying loyalty to Emperor Justinian does h

Recorded: June 7, 2024 This episode, we discuss a State Dept-funded Ukrainian website listing cohost Ames as an official evildoer & French Mirage-2000 sale...New Caledonia & France's EEZ maritime empire...and the war in Sudan... Music interlude by Brendon Anderegg. Check out music from his group Mountains here. Total time: 1:13:24 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Su