I've been to the Crater and the entrance of the mine to the detonation point is really not that far away, I bet the Rebels could hear them digging.

Still ragging on Scott Stapp - and that is okay.

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

The US fucks around in Mexican politics and eventually finds out.

Sources:
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/108653.htm
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/fall/mexican-punitive-expedition-1.html
https://history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/mexex.html
https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm
Pancho Villa and the Attack on Columbus, New Mexico

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Episode 163 - The Pancho Villa Expedition Part 1: Dueling Race Wars

The story of the deadliest woman in military history

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Sources: 
Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/

Episode 184 - Lyudmila Pavlichenko

On the 7th (and final) installment in our Soviet Afghan series we take a look at what life was like as a Soviet conscript and just how miserable life had to be before you started drinking boot polish to get drunk.

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Episode 61 - Soviet Afghan War 7: Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan

On this episode Joe and Nick dive into the troubled and misunderstood history of the Kamikaze. Were they really so devoted to the Emperor they willingly blew themselves up or were they scared and abused kids who were peer pressured into becoming suicide bombers? 

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Sources:
Wings of Defeat (2007)
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Kamikaze Dairies: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.
Kaiten Memorial Museum: http://www.kamikazeimages.net/museums/kaiten/index.htm

Episode 68 - The Kamikaze

A very hungover Joe and Nick dive into one of the Union Army's biggest blunders during the US Civil War: The Battle of the Crater during the siege of Petersburg. Two drunken commanders throw their soldiers into battle without a plan or orders. Hilarity does not ensue. 

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sources:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/crater
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/union-forces-stopped-at-the-battle-of-the-crater
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/the-battle-of-the-crater-petersburg-virginia-june-15-18-1864/

Episode 73- The Battle of the Crater

Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues. 

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Episode 86 - Winter War Part 2: Molotov Bread Basket

Imaging doing a favor for a friend that ended up with you spending over a year in a combat zone without a single day of training. Paul Mahar didn't have to imagine. 

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Sources: 
https://taskandpurpose.com/incredible-story-man-fought-vietnam-best-friends-place
http://wolfhoundpack.org/Wolfhound-Tales/Paul-Mahar
https://lmtribune.com/man-who-served-in-vietnam-in-friend-s-place-is/article_a7f5626b-4fb5-53de-a824-0ea77f5a774b.html
https://people.com/archive/unknown-soldier-vol-41-no-10/

Episode 91 - Paul Mahar

On part 2 we talk about the terrible life and times of a soldier in the 1800s. 25 year conscription, disease, banditry, and good old government ran child abduction. Now shut up and die for your Emperor.  

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Episode 96 - French Invasion of Russia Part 2: Worst Enlistment Ever

During the Cold War the US dosed thousands of its soldiers with acid. Hilarity did not ensue. 

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sources:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/secrets-of-edgewood
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/manufacturing-madness
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/17/operation-delirium

Episode 104 - The Edgewood Experiments

On this episode Joe and Travis dive into the history of the podcast's favorite cold war tank: the T-55. 

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Sources: 
https://ospreypublishing.com/t-54-and-t-55-main-battle-tanks-1944-2004-pb

Episode 108 - The T-55: A History

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