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A new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena. 

** corrections**

Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to say was "Bosnian Serb" and our brain melted mid sentence. 

sources for both episodes:
A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Collision Course: Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf, Serbia, and the Politics of Preventive War
https://www.historynet.com/carpathian-catastrophe.htm
http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2019/11/forgotten-campaign-carpathian-winter.html

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Episode 152 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 1: Load Bearing Franz

The US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers. 

sources for both episodes
https://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm
https://europeremembers.com/story/battle-of-huertgen-forest/
https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/
https://9thinfantrydivision.net/battle-of-the-hurtgen-forest/
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/longest-land-battle-hurtgen-forest/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2020/01/29/the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest-a-tactical-nightmare-for-allied-forces/

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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers

Francis from the Hell of a way to die Podcast and Shocks, everyone's favorite podcast lawyer join the show to talk about all of the times the US and USSR lost nuclear weapons due to horrible incompetence.

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sources:
https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-us-has-lost
https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2012/10/broken-arrow-lost-nuclear-weapons-in-canada/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/

Episode 123 - Broken Arrow

Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.

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*Unlocked* Valkyrie

During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it.

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Sources:
https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-punish-16-afghan-hospital-airstrike-n564826
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/kunduz-hospital-attack-even-in-20-years-we-wont-get-such-a-hospital-again
https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/03/afghanistan-us-airstrike-hits-kunduz-hospital

Episode 125 - The Kunduz Airstrike

Folks, it's bad.

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Sources:
 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html
https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29
https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/

Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield

Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit.

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts
Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
https://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost-tape-no-10-haunted-mixtape-the-vietnam-war.htm

Episode 126 - How World Militaries Attempted to Weaponize the Paranormal

One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud. 

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Sources:
https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html
http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf

Episode 127 - The Battle of Athens

Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees. 

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Sources for all related episodes: 

Appian. Civil Wars.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey"
Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989

Episode 128 - Spartacus Part 1: Jupiter's Cock!

The conclusion of the Third Servile War 

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Episode 129 - Spartacus Part 2: Return of the Corpse Road

naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my! 

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Sources:
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/

Episode 131 - USS Indianapolis

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