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Ep 018 "French COIN: Paras in Paris (Part Three)"
Season 1 Episode 18
The April 1961 Generals’ Putsch of Algiers (Putsch des généraux), was a failed military action to press French President Charles de Gaulle to not aba…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 017 Memorial Day Mailbag
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, I go through some of the more interesting emails and comments I have gotten since the podcast began in September 2022.
My Substack:
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3 years, 3 months ago
Ep 016 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Three)"
Season 1 Episode 16
his episodes examines the unconventional and eccentric mind sets of Lawrence and other famous and obscure military figures. We examine the way some a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep 015 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part Two)"
Season 1 Episode 15
In this episode we will discuss how Lawrence's medievalism gave him a tremendous advantage serendipitously advising and leading the local Arab revolt…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep 014 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part One)"
Season 1 Episode 14
One of the peak guerrilla fountainheads in the early twentieth century, TE Lawrence has been in both the popular imagination and a large part of the …
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 013 "CG Goes to the Movies: Red Dawn (1984)"
Season 1 Episode 13
The brilliant John Milius helmed this production in the thick of the cold war waning with the USSR. This will be the first episode where we examine t…
3 years, 5 months ago
Ep 012 "Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure"
Season 1 Episode 12
Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why system…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 011 "Three Strikes of the Match: American Divorce 1775"
Season 1 Episode 11
As a former Appleseed instructor and Shoot Boss in AZ, I had the opportunity to teach a marksmanship/history project that had me master the origins a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep 010 "Review and Discussion: Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin"
Season 1 Episode 10
I review and discuss Sean McMeekin's brilliant tome on Stalin being the ascendant and most successful antagonist in WWII.
References:
Sean McMeekin Sta…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ep 009 "French COIN: Algeria: Losing Afrique (Part Two)"
Season 1 Episode 9
I discuss the French experience in north Africa and the devastating consequences of the double blow of losing Indochina in the same time-frame in Alg…
3 years, 7 months ago