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Guest: Aditya Velivelli Recorded: May 8, 2025 We're joined by Aditya to talk about the latest outbreak of restrained-warfare between India and Pakistan following the terror attack in Kashmir in late April. *Map of Kashmir *India's first bombing sites, May 6 *Further listening: -RWN EP #109 — Kashmir

Recorded: August 24, 2022 On the 75th anniversary of the British-designed bloodbath known as the Indian Partition, the War Nerd & Ames recover the British Empire's central role in one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the 20th century. First: We look at two recent assassinations: the car-bo

Guest: The Fakir Recorded: June 2, 2021 In part II in our 2-part series on the 1971 Bangladesh genocide & wars, RWN guest The Fakir takes us from the first months of the genocide in Operation Searchlight in spring 1971, up through the war between India and Pakistan in December 1971 that led to the c

Guest: The Fakir Recorded: May 29, 2021 This is the 50th anniversary of the forgotten genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 , carried out by the US-backed dictator of Pakistan to crush Bangladesh's popular democratic autonomy movement back when Bangladesh was a province of Pakistan known as "East Pakistan.

Guests: TheseLongWars + Aditya Recorded: June 19, 2020 First, we talk to RWN Pakistan bureau chief TheseLongWars about the history of China-Pakistan relations—a subject that has received very little attention in the Anglo-American world. At 1:33:20 - we're joined again by our South Asia investigatio

Guest: "The Fakir" Recorded: February 28, 2020 First, the Nerd and Ames briefly discuss the hot news out of Idlib, where "Syrian" (ie Russian) air power demolished a Turkish military position, killing at least 34 high-value Turkish commandos... At 18:45 — We're joined by fellow war nerd "The Fakir"

Recorded: December 26, 2019 The War Nerd reports back from Sri Lanka on the 20th century communist insurgent group Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its strange yet familiar transformation from mid-20th c. Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries led by Rohana Wijeweera, to today's Sinhalese nationalist p

Guest: Aditya Recorded: August 9, 2019 We talk to previous RWN guest Aditya about the Indian government's surprise decision to strip Kashmir of its special semi-autonomous political status. To understand what's happening, Aditya tells us about Kashmir's historically separate and independent identity

Recorded August 14, 2018 Trinidad-born writer V.S. Naipaul died. He was a great comic writer, with rare early insights into the sorts of insurgencies and politics that we talk about on Radio War Nerd. So we decided to devote a special show to Naipaul's writings and career. Total time: 1:44:52 Direct