The story of one of the most horrific battles in all of human history.
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Sources:
David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III

Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad.

Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. 

Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

Episode 279 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 1

The horrors beyond human comprehension continue! 

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David Glantz. Stalingrad I-III

Anthony Beevor. Stalingrad.

Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. 

Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.

Episode 280 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 2

Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series. 

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Episode 281 - The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 3

Joe and Nate talk about the time South Vietnam attempted to invade Laos. It did not go well.

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Sources: 

https://www.comanchero.org/LamSon719.html

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/invasion-02172021125804.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27016309

Robert Sander. The Invasion of Laos, 1971

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024288

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/mauled-in-laos/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-nightmare-mission-into-laos-operation-lam-son-719/

Episode 293 - Operation Lam Son 719

The heroic story of how Samurai Warlord Saigo Takamori rose up against the changing of the times. But actually, it wasn't really about that at all.

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Sources: 

Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan

William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration

James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877

Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. 

Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-samurai-against-the-imperial-japanese-army/

Episode 294 - The Satsuma Rebellion Part 1: Dutch Kabuki

The conclusion to the Satsuma Rebellion! 

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Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan



William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration



James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877



Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. 



Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

Episode 295 - The Satsuma Rebellion Part 2: Imperial Goon Cave

Once upon a time the King of Portugal started a war that went so badly it collapsed his dynasty and killed three different kings all at once. 

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https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/08/343746/why-the-battle-of-the-three-kings-lives-on-in-moroccan-memory

https://www.historynet.com/three-dead-kings-war-in-morocco/#:~:text=By%20midafternoon%20on%20Aug,and%20North%20Africa%20for%20decades.

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Medieval/BattleOfTheThreeKings

Episode 296- The Battle Of The Three Kings

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Joe and Nate explore the history of Fragging in the US military and the case of Alberto Martinez, a soldier who almost certainly killed two officers during the Iraq War and got away with it. 

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Sources: 

George LePre. Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam

https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2017/01/27/alberto-martinez-acquitted-killing-local/22538316007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21frag.html

https://journalnow.com/witness-soldier-changed-before-fatal-iraq-blast/article_95ae16fb-b3e6-51b8-b445-d609e6d77e94.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.html

Episode 297 - The History of Fragging and the Case of Alberto Martinez

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Union soldiers may have marched off to fight for the right side of the war but that didn't mean that every contractor and General in the north wasn't going to try to steal something from the military along the way.

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Micheal Thomas Smith. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol 3, no. 1. Pp. 137-139

Tim Koenig. The Days of Shoddy: Wost Manufacturers of the Civil War.  Civil War Quarterly. Vol.  3. no. 2.

Episode 298 - The Insane Corruption of the Union Army During the US Civil War

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Orde Wingate was an insane person who thought exercise would cure malaria, wore a necklace of raw onions and garlic, and carried an alarm clock that would go off at random times like he was the Mad Hatter. He was also a commander of one of the most famous British military units during the Second World War. 

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SOURCES:

John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacy

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadership

David Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.

Episode 299 - Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Part 1

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Their minds stolen. Uploaded into war-machines. They fight a secret war to preserve humanity.
What if there was a war raging for one million years, but it was kept secret? It's a question Sargis never considered, born as an upper middle class man living in Prime City during a so-called “Millenia of Peace.”

As far as he, or anyone else knows, humanity has no army, no weapons, and no wars.

The people of Earth have been expanding into the stars for as long as anyone remembers, free of conflict while the Techno King and his Royal Cabal enrich themselves on the backs of their labor. All was as it always has been.

Then, Sargis dies.

Unbeknownst to him, an app he used every single day of his life hijacks his consciousness and uploads it into a synthetic engine of war known as a sleeve. Along with countless others, he has been conscripted into the Undying Legion, charged with fighting a secret, unending war in the name of humanity.

INVISIBLE WAR is Now Available!

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The conclusion to the story of a boy and his Chindits.

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John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacy

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadership

David Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.

Episode 300 - Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Part 2

The Imperial powers of Europe and Japan humiliate China until they create an uprising of magical martial artists who are terrified of period blood. 

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David Silby. The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game in China

Diana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic History of China’s War Against Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

Henry Keown-Boyd. The Fists of Righteous Harmony

Joseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

Episode 301 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 1: Unbeatable Army of Ultra Nerds

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Joe, tom, and Nate talk about the time British Commandos attempted to kill Erwin Rommel. It did not go great.

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Episode 302 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 2: Eunuch Fumes

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The Eight Nation Alliance hits some speed bumps as the various sides seem to want to fight each other as much as they do the Boxers.

Episode 303 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 3: Old Betsy

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A Wild Smedley Butler Appears!

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Episode 304 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 4: The Rembrandt of Violence

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Sharpe rejoins the British Army to root out corruption and the boys talk about the worst pizza party ever

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The conclusion to the boxer rebellion series! 

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Episode 305 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 5: Legation Garden Party

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Joe and Nate talk about the time a bunch of drunken American soldiers caused a pitched battle between themselves and their allies while stationed in Australia during WWII

Correction: Indigenous Australians were given Australian citizenship at the same time other Australians (1949) however, the quality of that citizenship was not equal to that of non-indigenous Australians. This continued for decades and as many indigenous Australian activists have pointed out, continues in various forms to this day.

This included discrimination on enlistment. Some areas of Australia legally allowed indigenous people to enlist, but in practice, turned them away based on how they looked. Others were enlisted but not paid. Others were paid, but not equally and kept in segregated units and virtually none received benefits.

sources:

https://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/bob.htm

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84830

https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-battle-of-brisbane-how-world-war-ii-mass-riot-startedg/78b4e1be-bd3d-4d35-aef0-8b196213f4e7

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/culture-clash-americans-in-world-war-ii-south-pacific/

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-brisbane.html

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/brisbane-news/diggers-lay-into-yanks-in-brisbane-battle-20171122-p4yx5o.html

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/us_forces

Episode 306 - The Battle of Brisbane

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In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/

https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA381834.pdf

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures

Episode 307 - Task Force Smith

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Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.

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 https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moor

Peter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish Tragedy

Ida Taylor. The Life of James IV

William Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4

Episode 308 - The Battle of Flodden Field

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The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/

Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527

Episode 309 - The 1527 Sack of Rome

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