if you don't stay with me, you're FUCKED. 

The "stay with me or you're fucked" thing reminded me of possibly the most genius work in the history of poetry, "A poem about bastards" by Chinese Warlord Zhang Zongchan. You tell me to do this / He tells me to do that / You're all bastards / Go fuck your mother.

Germany unifies and colonizes Namibia, is shocked to find out this is unpopular to the people who live there. 

Sources for both episodes:
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia (War and Genocide Book 31)
The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich


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Episode 165 - The Namibian Genocide Part 1: The Scramble For Atrocities

On the finale of the Winter War the Mannerheim Line begins to crumble and Finland is only saved due the connections of a Government Minister's booty call. 

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Episode 89 - Winter War Part 5: The Booty Call Armistice

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

Imaging being a North Korean conscript, thousands of miles away from home and watching your friends get gunned down by the guy from Drake and Josh.

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*UNLOCKED* Red Dawn (2012)

Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow, the Grand Army dies a slow death, and the Cossacks get blinged out as hell.

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Episode 99.5 - French Invasion of Russia Part 6:  March or Die

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

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

Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal. 

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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder/
http://fair-use.org/national-anti-slavery-standard/1866/04/14/robert-e-lee-his-brutality-to-his-slaves
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/arlington-bobby-lee-and-the-peculiar-institution/61428/
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221

Episode 105 - Robert E Lee Was a Monster

Joseph Medicine Crow became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe. He did this by counting coup, stealing an enemy's weapon, and stealing their horses....in World War II. 

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Sources: 
Joseph Medicine Crow, Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/joseph-medicine-crow-last-crow-tribe-war-chief-dies-at-102

Episode 110 - Joseph Medicine Crow

Our first episode ever was about Luigi Cadorna. A lot has changed in the last nearly 3 years so we decided to redo the whole thing during a charity live stream. During the stream we raised over 5,000$ for displaced and at need victims of the recent war in Armenia.

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Episode 132 - Luigi Cadorna: Redux

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