Radio War Nerd

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: Sabrina, security & conflict analyst Recorded: April 9, 2026 We talk to Pakistani analyst Sabrina about Pakistan's relations with Iran and its role as mediator, Pakistan's recent war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, its conflict last year with India, Trump's favorite field marshal, shitpostin

Recorded: April 8, 2026 Our shortest emergency ep ever, to celebrate what may be the briefest ceasefire/capitulation ever - but we'll take it! Total time: 21:50 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here' * Buy & review John Dolan's new book, They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civ

Recorded: March 13, 2025 We discuss Trump arrest of pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil, the collapse of Ukraine's Kursk bulge & Russia's pipeline rats, Balochi separatists' train-jacking... *Maps of Kursk Bulge collapse *Check out RWN #168 — Balochistan Insurgencies Total time: 58:12 Direct link

FARC & Colombia With FARC-Colombia ceasefire ending half a century of brutal war, the War Nerd walks us back through Colombia's ruling class bloodbaths in 1899-1902 and La Violence 50 years later, before the FARC appeared — and tries making sense of this little understood and remarkably successful M