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

On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of shit that undoubtably killed hundreds of American soldiers?

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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-against-north-korea%E2%80%94and-succeeded-vietnam-not-so-much-32252
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure
https://fenixammo.com/pages/history-of-the-223-remington-cartridge

Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History

Robert Bales was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army. He is also one of the worst war criminals in recent American history.

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Sources:
https://www.gq.com/story/robert-bales-interview-afghanistan-massacre
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/06/26/soldier-convicted-of-massacring-16-afghans-seeks-new-civilian-trial-citing-a-psychosis-inducing-anti-malarial-drug/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/19/army-soldier-wife-laughed-about-killing-charges/2674853/

Episode 72- Robert Bales

*******TRIGGER WARNING********
Everything. Seriously everything. It is terrible. 

On this episode Joe and Rich discuss one of the greatest crimes in human history: Japan's answer to Nazi Germany's terrifying medical experiments. 

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Sources:
Felton, Mark. The Devil's Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners of War.
Harris, Sheldon. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare and the American Cover up.

Episode 77 - Unit 731

On this episode we dive into America's first overseas war of Empire and how two racists from Nebraska started a war.

**Corrections**
Andres Bonifacio did not receive an education in spain and was not summerly executed. He was tried for a plot to overthrow the government and executed.

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Sources:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/06/102497181.pdf
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990801.2.111&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
https://books.google.com/books?id=fW_aeCJJ9J0C&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nkB_PDdXcC

Episode 79 - Philippine American War Part 1: Thanks a lot Nebraska

The American Philippines War begins in earnest. America sets up a series of concentration camps and attempts to brutalize the Philippine people into submission. 

Enter the Machete of Freedom. 

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Episode 80 - Philippine American War Part 2: The Machete of Freedom

At the conclusion of our series on the Philippines American War we dive into the Moro Rebellion and American war crimes so prolific they are turned into things of legend in the modern day. 

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Episode 81 - Philippines American War Part 3: War Crimes and Misdemeanors

Sources:
https://nationalpost.com/tag/kevin-patrick-dawes/
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/syria-isis-kevin-dawes

Episode 93 - Kevin Patrick Dawes

Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind. 

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Episode 99 - French Invasion of Russia Part 5: Moscow is Decadent and Depraved.

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

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Sources:
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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Sources: 

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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