Radio War Nerd EP #629 — Iran War: Pre-War Intelligence + Missile Races, feat. Amerikanets

This was insanely good

Excellent guest. Not just great info, but great on the mic. Some of the blob cats you’ve had on lately are breaking some cardinal rules around having both dogshit opinions and bad mic presence. Not complaining just for the sake of it and I know doing 2+ shows per week without John is difficult. But this was great. More Americanets please!

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Why is it so hard to understand that trump is a pedo and israel has the goods on him ? The more i hear the more that narrative makes sense to me.

Great episode fellas

What is Israel's end game in this whole thing? Are they just motivated by biblical madness as they seem to be, and believe "God will make it all work for His Chosen People" or what? This seems like madness particularly from their perspective. First because it depletes their major patron, making them weaker against other Israeli adversaries in the future, and a war with Iran going bad will make anti-Israeli sentiment (and even anti-Jewish sentiment, particularly on the hard right as the Christian-Zionist boomers die off) more mainstream in American politics. There is no win for Israel here, so why did they want the Americans to jump in so badly?

Eric approve my follow request, I’m articleconsumer. Shadowbanned from insulting gambling affiliates

It's really funny that america spent 25 years threatening Iran and then walked straight into the death trap that the Iranians spent 25 years making, starting somewhere around the time you first started threatening them The only thing I have to say about the Iran war is that america got exactly what it deserved, and more

Cant believe you didnt talk about the thousands of decoys iran used!

Watch Ted Postol on dialog works. He walks you thru with complete visuals successful interceptions. They are very rare. Very Very rare

This epi was a banger. Dolan missed out smh

The arrow 3 does not work, we've seen the videos of them making contact with iranian missiles over israel and the warheads still land .

And professor Marandi* has laid all the actions Iran would take if the us sought war YEARS AGO.

You need to get Brian Berletic on, from The New Atlas. He's pretty incredible. And his understanding is the war isnt to conquer iran. Its so all the energy infrastructure that fuels east Asia the.US wants destroyed to potentially slow the growth of China

Great episode; thank you

Amazing episode!

Great ep!

Fantastic guest, really interesting discussion both on mil policy and hardware. Cant wait for him to come back.

Hey great episode! Just wondering if the new ebook has been sent out yet?

Excellent interview - Eric is a great guest. Bet John would be impressed by his hardware nerd ways.

John's new Odyssey is puzzling. I had thought that after he and Kathryn bought a house in Italy that their plan was to end their peripatetic ways. Now they are headed to New Zealand again. Is this "permanent" or a long visit? Inquiring minds want to know.

Some comments and corrections. The Ground Based Mid-Course defense system has interceptors in Alaska and California, not Montana. There are only about 44 interceptors in the system. The system was designed to defend against a very limited nuclear ICBM attack and its tests have been highly scripted. Exoatmospheric interception always involves radar and decoys can make such interceptions nearly impossible. The tests that have been conducted did not allow a "red team" to prepare and deploy decoys without informing the interception team about what they intended to use. Hopefully our sparring partners will be equally considerate. There was some talk for awhile of using lasers to help discriminate between decoys and real warheads, as the decoys would be lighter than the warheads and the slight difference in motion after being struck by the laser could theoretically be detected. The impossible math between ballistic missiles and their interceptors was recognized in 1972 when the ABM treaty was signed. The US was testing and hoping to deploy the Sprint/Spartan combo of interceptor missiles when it became obvious that due to their cost, all the Soviets would have to do is build more ICBMs, which were cheap compared to the interceptors. In the fifty years since, that reality has not changed at all.

Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle is such a cool name. Unfortunately, they don’t have a high kill rate.

Annie Jacobson‘s ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’ is a great read regarding US nuclear deterrence and how inadequate it is.

Asian butterbean hahahaha

I'm blocked up like the dang strait of hormuz!

The missile article is so good dude. I've been telling people basically socially at hostage making them listen to the history of missles.

Second everyone else’s comments about the episode being great, but mainly came to note Mark adding ‘mid’ to his youth vocabulary, along with 6-7

This is such a great ep… Also for anyone who is interested in the f117 aircraft, there are pieces of it that you can see (and touch) in the military museum in Belgrade, Serbia. That alone is worth the trip, if you ask me

Brilliant episode! This episode reminds me of why we should never take mainstream media at face value. Their enmeshment with the military industrial complex keeps the public information starved. Great work!

Amazing interview

Damn yall got the weird Nazi guy from Twitter on the pod?

Absolute banger of an episode

It’s useful to emphasize that some of these drones are bigger than the 737s or even bigger airliners. There’s a good size comparison chart floating around that is disgusting in this regard.

I tried to follow Eric and his Twitter account was locked. What did you guys do?

God, I remember seeing Bin Laden's Tora Bora supercomplex/lair in either Newsweek or Time way back when. I don't remember if I bought the issue, but I definitely remember thumbing through it in the bookstore.

The mention of the Alaska system reminds me of that dogshit House of Dynamite movie from this spring.

Yes... YES!!!!