"Competence on the battlefield is a myth. The side that screws up the least wins, its as simple as that." From a 40k novel centered around the Imperial Guard, for context :P.

Once upon a time New Zealand made their own tank. It did not go well. 

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https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/NewZealand/Bob_Semple_Tank.php
The Semple Tank, J.Plowman, Classic Military Vehicle Magazine
National Library of New Zealand

Episode 236 - The Bob Semple Tank

Joe is joined by producer Nate (@inthesedeserts)to talk about the time the CIA attempted to invade cuba with a handful of guys and some repurposed fishing trawlers. 

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sources:
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2134
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/bop-vol3.pdf
https://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://web.archive.org/web/20160621043713/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html

Episode 241 - The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles.  In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! 

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Episode 244 - The Troubles Part 2

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable. 

CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim. 

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Episode 245 - The Troubles Part 3

Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth.

Correction:

The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll

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http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html
https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-ii
https://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/
Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes.

Episode 247 - The Wooden Nazi Jet Made for Kids

Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think.

Part 1/3

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Episode 250 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 1: Deadly German Swamp Ass

The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3

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Episode 251 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 2: A Wild T Rex Appears

A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history. Part 1/4

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Johnathan Spence. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.

Stephen Platt. Autumn in the heavenly kingdom

Jian Youwen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement

Episode 256 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 1: Jesus Christ's Little Brother

The Taiping rebellion spreads and the rebels create the world's weirdest gunpowder

Part 2/4

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Episode 257 - The Taiping Rebellion Part 2: Working in the Dog Blood Factory

The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history.

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.html

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantic

https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureperil-in-the-depths-the-worlds-worst-submarine-disasters-4191027/

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2ffoia%2freadingroom%2fHotTopics%2fTHRESHER%20RELEASE

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-how-mechanical-problem-led-uss-thresher-its-eternal-patrol-92421

Norman Polmar. The Death of the USS Thresher

Episode 261 - The USS Thresher

*CONTENT WARNING*
Joe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa.

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Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial Guinea

Paul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409/https://www.icj.org/the-trial-of-macias-in-equatorial-guinea-the-story-of-a-dictatorship/

Episode 263 - The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema

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