Radio War Nerd EP #540 — Battles of Nomonhan Pt. 2: Zhukov Rising, feat. Annibale
Guest: Annibale
In part 2 of our series on the Battles of Nomonhan, Annibale takes us to the main battles between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, in March 1939, and in July-August 1939, changing how World War II played out in both Europe and the Far East/Pacific.
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*What Imperial Japanese Army's "Northern War" plan would look like, but for Nomonhan
*Maps from Stuart Goldman's excellent book, Nomonhan, 1939:
Reading: Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II, by Stuart Goldman
Listening: Nomonhan, Pt 1: Background (RWN EP #538)
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Direct link to this episode's mp3 here
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Comments (13)
The Japanese paranoia about a surprise attack is ironic given opening sneak attacks were their whole strategy for starting wars since Port Arthur .
Annibale had an encyclopedia for a brain I’m convinced. Has he written any books that are available?
My guess is that anything Annibale has written is under his real name, and is kept under lock and key in the desk drawers of a handful of competent policy makers and nato commanders.
Would also love an episode about the IJN and how the battleship Yamato, as a singular piece of hardware, was built to embody the Élan of Japan…. and then gets sunk by the U.S. Navy during a last-ditch effort suicide attack.
I think annibale’s comparison of Japan in the 30s to Vietnam and later America is brilliant. Especially if we’re taking the kwantung army for the CIA
Has parallels with the Texas Revolution too!
I attended a birthday party in 1977 in Tehran (we lived there) as a 10-year-old, where the featured entertainment was the movie Bugsy Malone. One of the previews was for a film called Escape from Manchuria, and it showed a Japanese soldier getting run over by a Soviet tank. I never forgot that.
The KMT was a member party in the Comintern the USSR basically wanted the communists to dissolve into the left wing of the KMT on the basis that China first needed to complete the bouguise revolution
I had read somewhere a claim that Russian Cavalry officers had been enthused by the cavalry actions of the American Civil War and rebuilt their doctrine in the late 1800's accordingly, and that mindset was taken into the red army during the civil war
this is the one me and the other khalkhin gol sickos have been waiting for
Always love to hear a bit of Annibale, thanks guys 🤘🏻
Commenting before listening but with trump officially tarrifing India over Russian oil, can mark provide his theory on why trump has done a complete 180 on Russia/Ukraine? A few months ago it was “Bidens war” lol. My guess is it’s his way of giving the finger to his anti interventionist constituents and allies, because they’ve been somewhat critical lately. They all hate Ukraine so it’s an easy FU for trump
Brandonification.