Radio War Nerd

Guests: Daniel Levy, Cyrus Recorded: October 30, 2026 We get two perspectives on the Israeli elections: first, from former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, and then from MENA researcher & friend of the show Cyrus. First - Daniel Levy on Israel's election At 39:01 - Music interlude by Brendon An

Guests: Lily Lynch and Brian Mier Recorded: October 27, 2026 It's rare we can cover positive news. So this episode we talk to Brian Mier about Lula's come-from-behind election win in Brazil over Trump's anointed minion, and we talk to Lily Lynch about the stunning election victory in Serbia by the m

Guest: Dr. Shireen al-Adeimi Recorded: October 22, 2026 We talk to Dr. Shireen al-Adeimi about the past 200 years of Yemen struggles with imperialism and politics, from the British-Ottoman invasions in the 1800s, to the wars in the 1960s against the British and the North Yemen monarchy, through the

Guest: Thomas Frank Recorded: October 20, 2026 Author Thomas Frank returns to RWN to discuss his new book, The Creativity Con, about the ruling class's dominant ideology over the past five decades - "Innovation", "Creativity" - and all the destruction this ideology has wreaked on everything from pol

Guest: Michael Woldemariam Recorded: October 15, 2026 The war in the Horn that we've been anticipating with dread has broken out. We talk to professor Michael Woldemariam, an expert in Horn of Africa wars and security at U. Maryland, to discuss the historical context of this war, the differences bet

Guest: AMK Mapping Recorded: October 14, 2026 Continuing our series with our favorite OSINT journalists, Mark talks to Ukraine War researcher AMK Mapping about his craft, the pitfalls, Starlink and other hardware, and the gruesome realities of this war of attrition under a sky swarming with murder d

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher Recorded: October 9, 2026 On September 30, US forces fully withdrew from Iraq. Cyrus returns to RWN to discuss the fallout & lasting effects of America's invasion, occupation and reshaping of Iraq and the MENA. We also discuss current Iraqi-Iran oil transits, South Leba

Guest: Brian Mier Recorded: October 1, 2026 Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier returns to RWN to talk about Brazil's upcoming presidential elections, corruption scandals, Bolsonaro's 2023 coup plot and his son's American-backed attempt to take power, media malpractice and more. Check out Brian's med

Guest: Annibale Recorded: September 30, 2026 In our final episode of our series on the Soviet-Finnish Wars (1939-40, 1941-5), Annibale shines a light on Finland's Nazi crimes carried out as Nazi Germany's allies: deadly concentration camps for non-Finns, Finnish Waffen SS, and the little-known Finni

Guest: Seth Ackerman Originally recorded: September 4, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked [we unlocked it October 1] our episode with politics writer Seth Ackerman and guest co-host Michael Pollak to discuss A Blueprint for a New Party, Ackerman's anatomy of America's authoritarian election and ball

Guest: Akbar Shahid Ahmed Recorded: September 26, 2026 We talk to DC-based investigative journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book, Crossing the Red Line, a merciless autopsy on the Biden Administration's warped complicity in the Gaza genocide. Buy Akbar's book Crossing the Red Line: Biden, h

Guest: Matt ("Barry with the NED") Recorded: September 23, 2026 We talk to Matt, who runs one of the great OSINT accounts of 2026 - @Bonzerbarry, aka Barry with the NED - about the war in Yemen reignited this summer when the Saudis bombed the airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa: Ansarallah's battle ta

Guest: Daniel Bessner Recorded: September 15, 2026 Danny Bessner of the American Prestige podcast discusses Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century, his new collection of essays. And the War Nerd returns to update us on his -oscopies & Ansarallah's sweep through

Guest: Rob Ashlar Recorded: September 12, 2026 We continue our series on the pivotal Iraqi insurgency with researcher Rob Ashlar. In part 5, we cover the events of the summer of 2006: the assassination of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) founder/emir Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which the Bush Admin promised would a

Guest: Annibale Recorded: September 10, 2026 Annibale joins to discuss Ansarallah's stunning sweep of Saudi-backed forces and seizure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the unraveling of the US empire + part 3 of our Soviet-Finnish Wars series, taking us into the first months of Finland's key role in N

Guest: Seth Ackerman Recorded: September 4, 2026 Why can't Americans form a new third party? Why are they stuck with the same grim "choice" between the increasingly fascistic Republicans and their fake opposition, the Democrats? Seth Ackerman joins Mark and guest co-host Michael Pollak to talk about

Guest: Devin Thomas O'Shea Originally recorded: June 10, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with author Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to discuss his wild new book, the Veiled Prophet, about the secret society that ran St. Louis from the end of Reconstruction until the end of the Civil Rig

Guest: Amerikanets Originally recorded: August 13, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with "Amerikanets", the man behind the "debasification" neologism, about how the US military-intelligence establishment knew for decades just how badly a war with Iran would go - with all the receipts t

Guest: Annibale Recorded: August 25, 2026 In the second part of RWN's Soviet-Finnish Wars series with Annibale (Part 1: RWN 630), we learn about the much-mythologized Winter War from November 1939 - March 1940 which ended in Finland's surrender, how the Finns were able to initially beat the Soviets

Guest: Eric (Amerikanets) Recorded: August 20, 2026 Eric ("Amerikanets") returns as promised to dive deep into the evolution of anti-ship missiles and US Navy missile defense systems to answer the question: Why hasn't Iran sunk a US aircraft carrier, let alone any naval ship? Along the way, we discu

Guest: Annibale Recorded: August 18, 2026 Annibale launches his series on the two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II: the Winter War (1939-1940), which covered underdog Finland in glory; and Finland's Nazi-allied war on the Soviet Union (1941-45), which has been bur

As promised, your copy of To the Crows: Selected Essays of John Dolan is now available to all members of the mighty Radio War Nerd Legion. Download the .pdf or .epub attachment at the bottom of this post, yours for no extra charge! These essays collectively form a bitter, funny, and savage critique

Guest: Eric (Amerikanets) Recorded: August 13, 2026 We talk to the man behind the "debasification" neologism, "Amerikanets", about missiles v missile defense, what the US military-intelligence world knew about how badly the Iran war would go & when they knew it, and about having your neologism rippe

Guests: Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick Originally recorded: August 5, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, the authors of Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, a new & timely book on the Israel Lobby and its malign influence on American poli

Guests: Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick Recorded: August 5, 2026 The Israel Lobby has long been the unmentionable force in Washington that has had a stranglehold over US politics and policy, leaving a trail of destroyed presidencies, and destroyed careers of Israel's critics. Ames talks to Eli Clifton a

Recorded: August 3, 2026 The War Nerd calls in from Kuala Lumpur on his ongoing odyssey to Auckland. We discuss Iran & Ukraine wars plus some ancient history of wars on Persians that went very badly. John's new essay collection, To The Crows, is now for sale! We'll be making the ebook version availa

Guest: Sina Toosi Recorded: July 30, 2026 Sina Toosi joins RWN to discuss evolving IRI policy on the war and the long history of US policy failures towards Iran. Check out Sina's newsletter Dissident Foreign Policy. Follow Sina on Twitter. Further reading: -"America’s Iran Failure Is Bigger Than Tru

Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Originally recorded: July 15, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with Adam Johnson on his infuriating new book, How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Isr

Recorded: July 28, 2026 The War Nerd's odyssey continues from Colombo, Sri Lanka: omens of doom, wars merging, Lindsey Graham's demonic Gomer Pyle, and insights into the conscience of The Blob... Further listening: RWN #211 — The JVP: Sri Lanka's Communist Insurgency Total time: 56:12 Direct link to

Guest: Rob Ashlar Recorded: July 25, 2026 Researcher Rob Ashlar continues his series with us on the Iraq insurgency, which had a powerful influence on jihadi insurgencies and politics ever since. In this episode, Rob takes us through the spring of 2006, as AQI (Al Qaeda in Iraq) and its umbrella hea

Recorded: July 21, 2026 The War Nerd returns to give a SITREP from Dubai & discuss The Odyssey. Afterwards, Ames says a few words about the apparent suicide of alt-right guy Jim Goad & Ansarallah's declaration of maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia. -Further listening: EP #107 - The War Nerd Iliad -Re

Guest: Rob Ashlar Recorded: July 18, 2026 Researcher Rob Ashlar resumes his RWN series on the Iraqi insurgency, now moving into the eventful year 2006. Subscribe to Rob Ashlar's substack. Follow Rob on Twitter here. Read Rob Ashlar's article "Monotheism and Struggle: The Story of Iraqi Insurgency, 2

Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Recorded: July 15, 2026 We talk to Adam Johnson about his enraging new book How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza. Mark is joined

Guest: Peter Korotaev, Events In Ukraine Recorded: July 14, 2026 With the War Nerd beginning his long odyssey, friend of the show Peter Korotaev joins Ames to talk about the latest gruesome murder, torture and press-gang scandals rocking Ukraine, the deadly rivalry between Ukraine's intelligence age

Guest: Annibale Recorded: July 6, 2026 (thumbnail: mass grave of Soviet POWs) Annibale joins us for his promised bonus episode on Operation Barbarossa, the largest and deadliest invasion in human history, which just quietly passed its 85th anniversary. In this episode, Annibale goes over the unfatho

Recorded: July 2, 2026 The War Nerd resumes his US Civil War series to recount perhaps the Union's most embarrassing episode of the war, when, in summer 1864, Confederate crank Jubal Early almost took Washington DC. Check out the RWN US Civil War collection Maps & Images *Early's roundabout raid rou

Guest: Samuel Bendett, Researcher at The Center for Naval Analyses Recorded: June 30, 2026 Samuel Bendett returns to the show to bring us up to speed about the latest developments in unmanned warfare in the Ukraine war. This is a hardware ep; we'll cover other aspects of the Ukraine war in a future

Recorded: June 25, 2026 We pore through a few representative clips of this current moment. That moment being the US capitulation to Iran, the freakout from Trump's pro-Israel corner, and the US political class slowly but loudly peeling away from Israel... Total time: 1:16:16 Direct link to this epis

Recorded: June 23, 2026 John Dolan, aka The War Nerd, reads selections from his new collection of essays To The Crows, soon to be released. This collection draws from the first two decades of this century, including The eXile, NSFWCorp and Pando. First: We briefly discuss the US-Iran MOU and some of

Guest: Kamal Chomani Recorded: June 18, 2026 We talk to researcher Kamal Chomani about the Iranian Kurdish groups that were, according to various reports, supposed to act as the ground force for the US-Israel War on Iran. We discuss the real reasons why the Iranian Kurds didn't join Trump-Netanyahu'

Guest: Andreas Krieg Recorded: June 16, 2026 Andreas Krieg assesses the winners & mostly-losers in the aftermath of the US-Israel War on Iran, with a focus on the UAE's rude awakening. Follow Andreas on Twitter. Further listening: *RWN #564 — The UAE Empire feat Andreas Krieg *RWN #207 — Republic of

Guest: Devin Thomas O'Shea Recorded: June 10, 2026 Author Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to discuss his wild new book, the Veiled Prophet, about the secret society that ran St. Louis from the end of Reconstruction until the end of the Civil Rights era, only to reappear as a scandal involving the ditz

Guest: Maryam Jamshidi Recorded: June 3, 2026 As soon as the US lost its war with Iran -- and lost effective control over the vital Strait of Hormuz to the IRI -- Washington and its allies started pontificating about international law and the right of "transit passage" for all shipping. Iran however

Guest: TP Huang Originally recorded: May 14, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our discussion with TP Huang on China's military strategy and hardware, Taiwan, Thucydides Trap, the Hellscape Strategy and more... Subscribe to TP Huang's substack. Follow TP Huang on Twitter. Would you like to know more? Th

Recorded: May 30, 2026 Trump struggles with himself over when and how to capitulate to Iran, while the IDF drives deeper into Hezbollah's fpv quagmire... Total time: 51:12 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Buy & review John Dolan's new book, They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on th

Guest: Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone Recorded: May 27, 2026 Max Blumenthal returns to RWN to discuss his latest exposé on Trump's corrupt viceroy for Venezuela and the fine line between Delcy Rodriguez as hostage or collaborator. We also discuss Cuba, US politics and the Zionist-Techlord oligarchy in

Guest: Annibale Recorded: May 18, 2026 The final episode in our Operation Barbarossa series begins on December 5, 1941: The Soviet counterattack outside of Moscow. Annibale describes the battles, their historical significance, and busts a few more received ideas along the way. *Maps Annibale's Bibli

Guest: TP Huang Recorded: May 14, 2026 We talk to TP Huang about China's military strategy and hardware, Taiwan, Thucydides Trap, the Hellscape Strategy and more... Subscribe to TP Huang's substack. Follow TP Huang on Twitter. Total time: 1:29:37 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Buy & review

Recorded: May 13, 2026 Torpedoed, Russian cargo ship...Iran war standoff + signs of economic chaos...Iranian maskirovka...NY Times reports Israel's rape-torture policy against Palestinian prisoners... Total time: 1:06:01 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Buy & review John Dolan's new book, Th

Guest: "Cyrus", MENA researcher Recorded: May 7, 2026 Friend of the show Cyrus joins us from Beirut to report on other ongoing fronts in the US-Israel War on Iran: Lebanon, Syria, Iraq. Further listening with Cyrus: EP #589 - Hezbollah Rising Total time: 1:41:41 Direct link to this episode's mp3 her