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Episode 384 - The Texas Revolution: Part 3

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The conclusion to our series on the Texas Revolution!

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Episode 385 - The Texas Revolution: Part 4

Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com This week on Angry Planet we have returning guest and former judge advocate Dan Maurer. The last time he was on the show, Maurer walked us through the consequences of a <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/so-what-happens-to-seal-team-6-if" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Supreme Court ruling</a> that asked the question: is it illegal for the President to order SEAL Team Six to kill people? It was a surreal question that now feels more pressing. A US Carrier Strike Group is moving into South American waters to support America’s highly kinetic War on Drugs. Military lawyers might have advised the Trump administration that extra-judiciously executing alleged criminals in international waters is, in fact, illegal. But Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a--sweeping-overhaul--of-the-jag-corps-poses-likely-dangers" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">no fan of military lawyers</a> and fired the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of both the Army and the Air Force. The Pentagon plans to turn as many as 600 of the remaining military lawyers <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-immigration-judges-trump-pete-hegseth-b07950833591270b926ad86ede8b961f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">into immigration judges</a>. The second Trump administration is perverting the law and sidelining anyone that might tell them it’s a bad idea. Since he was last on the show, Maurer has retired from the Army and is now a professor at Ohio Northern University’s college of law. He’s here to tell us how bad things are and how much worse they might get.<ul><li>The terminal parent metaphor</li><li>A story that only ends one way</li><li>What’s a JAG?</li><li>Hegseth’s JAG hate</li><li>Law as perversion</li><li>Are these strikes legal? “No.”</li><li>“It can be lawful, but not moral.”</li><li>Legally speaking, you can’t be a combatant and a criminal.</li><li>When Truman tried to take over the steel industry.</li><li>Can state authorities arrest the feds?</li><li>Life after Trump time</li></ul> <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-military-lawyers-being-sidelined" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Are Military Lawyers Being Sidelined?</a> <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/defining--rebellion--in-10-u.s.c.---12406-and-the-insurrection-act" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Defining ‘Rebellion’ in 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Insurrection Act</a> <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-treason-and-traitors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">On Treason and Traitors</a> <a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Yes, US Strikes On Alleged Drug Traffickers Are Illegal. That Won’t Stop Them

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In the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attempt to hold off the Russian Imperial Army in what became known as "Austria-Hungary's Stalingrad"

Sources:

Graydon Tunstall. Written in Blood: The Battles For Fortress Przemysl in WWI.

Dr. Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemsysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands.

Christopher Miskimon. The Siege of Przemysl. Military Heritage. Jan 2016. Volume 17, No 4.

Episode 386 - The Siege of Przemyśl

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We’re obsessed with apocalypses, big and small. We fantasize about what the future might look like after the fall of society and fear the coming tribulation. Rome fretted about decline until its end. Stories of the Sea Peoples terrified the monarchs of the Late Bronze Age. During the 30 Years’ War, Europeans imagined Armageddon had finally begun. But a funny thing happens after the collapse: things tend to get a little better for everyone. Luke Kemp is here to hold our hands through the end of the world as we know it. Kemp is a researcher at Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the author of the book Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. <ul><li>Beauty in collapse</li><li>Matthew’s AI test</li><li>The Doctor Doom mask</li><li>“Collapse was good for most people.”</li><li>Sea People’s mentioned</li><li>Why a Goliath and not a Leviathan?</li><li>Down with Thomas Hobbes</li><li>Fear of a mass panic driving collapse</li><li>“Emergency powers have a very funny tendency to stick around”</li><li>The problem with guns, germs, and steel</li><li>The Tree of Evil</li><li>On the purpose of human sacrifice</li><li>Doctor Doom is the belle of the ball</li><li>Are we ending on a high note?</li></ul> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/goliath-s-curse-the-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse-luke-kemp/d320180b7aac6931?ean=9780593321355&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buy Goliath’s Curse</a> <a href="https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/luke-kemp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Centre for the Study of Existential Risk</a> <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The rewards of ruin</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

‘Goliath’s Curse’ and the Surprising Benefits of Societal Collapse

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Early during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and every ARVN commander on the ground has to ask for permission to do any command position in a game of telephone that goes all of the way up to the President of South Vietnam.

Sources:

David Elliot. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975

David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire: American and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era.

Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/educational-services/staff-rides/VSR/Ap-Bac-Vietnam/Material/Ap-Bac%20Preliminary%20Study%20Guide%20V1.0.pdf

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Episode 387 - The Battle of Ap Bac

It's the late 16th century and the Ottoman Empire is continuing to advance across the eastern Mediterranean. In Istanbul, the Ottomans have begun ratifying ambassadorships and trade deals with the English crown. And in the middle of this comes a crew of the most sunburned Barbary Pirates you've ever met, hell-bent on plundering any ship they can find before they high-tail it back to...England?

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I'm an Anthropology PhD student researching how we make meaning about the Bomb.

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Deus Ex Atomica: Anthropology and the Bomb