Category: Podcast Episodes

005: Tongo Tongo – Corruption and Occupation in Niger

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A C-17 taking off from Base Aerienne 201 via Wikimedia
Location of Tongo Tongo via Google Earth

Trevor is joined by Bry Jensen of Pontifacts (@pontifactspod) to discuss the worst American military defeat in Africa of the last 30 years, The Tongo Tongo Ambush, and the rampant mismanagement that made it possible.
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Mark – Inside The Botched Raid That Left Four US Soldiers Dead In Niger
Penney – Drones in the Sahara
Turse – Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa
Turse – U.S. Secret Wars In Africa Rage On…
Turse – The U.S. Is Building A Drone Base In Niger…
Turse – Less Than A Mile From Drone Base…
Savage, Schmitt, and Gibbsons-Neff  – U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight…
ABC – US intelligence officials examining video of Nigerien militant group
BBC – Troops put down Niger mutiny
BBC – Military coup ousts Niger president Mamadou Tandja
BBC – Deadly US decisions before Niger ambush
CBS – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discloses details about Niger ambush
Chason and Birnbaum – US struggles for influence in West Africa as military juntas rise

Cole – Russia’s New Military Alliance Encroaching on US Sphere of Influence
Coon – Rifle fire strikes U.S. C-130 during airdrop over Mali
DoD Press Briefing on the results of the Investigation into the October 4, 2017, Ambush in Niger
Everstine – Inspector General Blasts USAF…
Fuglestad – A History of Niger 1850-1960
GlobalSecurity – Operation Enduring Freedom-Trans Sahara (OEF-TS) Operation Juniper Shield
IRIN – NIGER: State of alert threatens independent media – RSF
Reuters – Factbox: Who is Niger’s Mamadou Tandja?
CW: Military combat, death, IS propaganda music Sgt. Johnson Helmet Cam Footage

ASW 04: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 2

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

04: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 2

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

ASW 03: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 1

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

03: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 1

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

122: Alexander in Love

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Marriage of Alexander and Roxane, Il Sodoma c. 1517

Alexander the Great had many relationships, both romantic and familial. From mother and father, Olympias and Philip, to a vast array of step-mothers and siblings to at least four romantic and sexual partners, the Macedonian royal family was as vast as it was confusing and controversial.
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02: America’s Very First War, Part 2

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Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For part 2, Trevor is joined by Asha (@Herbo_Anarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast (@SwordsNSocPod) to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country

ASW: America’s Very First War, Part 1

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Map of Georgia, its rivers, and its major cities with the Oconee River Basin highlighted (L) Map of the Oconee Basin with greater detail to show local creeks (R).
Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For the very first episode, Trevor is joined by Asha (@HerboAnarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country