Im beginning to think any time the US has won a war it was some kind of fluke rgat we tripped ass backwards into.

For more info and history on the Krag-Jorgensen Rifle see C&Rsenal's youtube page...

A return of the animal episode! 

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Episode 149 - War Duck

The US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win. 

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Episode 156 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 2: Task Force Dick Ripple

The conclusion of the reign of Bokassa I

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Episode 168 - The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 2

Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more!

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Episode 175 - The Spanish American War Part 2: The One With All of the Diseases

The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance. 

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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 214 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 5: I Die With My Country

Spicer Simson rides into some of the dumbest combat of all time, somehow wins. 

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Sources:
Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth 

Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

Episode 221 - The Battle of Lake Tanganyika Part 2: Nelson of the Lake

On this episode Nick and Joe dive into the insane world of Holocaust Denial and why these people shouldn't be debated, they should be attacked. 

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Sources: 
Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917150/

Episode 40 - The Assholes of Holocaust Denial

Creator of Popular Front Jake Hanrahan joins Joe to talk about how he got his start in Conflict Journalism, why westerners need to stop projecting their beliefs onto the revolutions of other people, and why frozen and lesser known conflicts demand your attention.

https://www.popularfront.co

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Episode 103- Popular Front Ft. Jake Hanrahan

Blow up Mount Rushmore.

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Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/mount-rushmore-gutzon-borglum-klan-stone-mountain/
https://apnews.com/430aa7f10b344eef891ff733116cf3ae
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/monumental-racism-the-kkk-member-who-carved-mount-rushmore

Episode 111 - Mount Rushmore is a Racist Tourist Trap

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

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

The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.

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Episode 175 - The Spanish American War Part 2: The One With All of the Diseases

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