@lestr97 France’s nuclear weapons tests in Algeria created tons of radioactive dust that is still present in the Sahara 60 years later. Ironically, some of it blew into France earlier this year lmao

the conclusion to our First Chechen War series 

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Episode 162 - The First Chechen War Part 4:  The One Where Everyone Invades Hospitals

The 2nd and last part of our series on the Namibian Genocide

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Episode 166 - The Namibian Genocide Part 2: Shark Island

The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide. 

sources: 
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60960/wwi-centennial-turkish-debacle-sarikamish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/armenian.htm
https://www.armenian-genocide.org/1915-1.html
https://fx.substack.com/p/today-in-caucasian-history-the-battle-4ab

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Episode 172 - The Battle of Sarikamish

Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire.

Sources for all 3 episodes: 
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html
https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090

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Episode 174 - The Spanish American War Part 1: Maybe Don't Remember the Maine

2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. 

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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade

Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *

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With the Marines At Tarawa
One Square Mile of Hell
https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/

Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa

Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins. 

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 211 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 2: Man Vs Cactus

The Russian Navy sets off on a one way journey into naval history. 

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Episode 121 - Russo -Japanese War Part 3: The Voyage of the Damned

Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge

sources for all 4 episodes:
Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
A Cambodian odyssey
The Pol Pot Regime
When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution
Cambodia: Year Zero
Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982

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Episode 133 - The Khmer Rouge Part 1: Revolutionary Snitching

Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War.

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https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/
https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html

Episode 140 - Operation Kitona

The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia.

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Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia

Episode 143 - Monte Melkonian Part 1: The Boy Scout Revolutionary

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