Radio War Nerd

Guests: Andreas Krieg + "Cyrus" Recorded: November 20, 2025 Since we launched RWN, the United Arab Emirates has repeatedly appeared as a quietly malign player in wars from Libya to the Horn of Africa to the Arabian peninsula, leading to comparisons to the Venetian Republic. This episode we talk to D

Recorded: September 16, 2023 The War Nerd heroically drags himself to the pod mic after spending 5-1/2 hours strapped to a Roman dentist's jackhammer, to discuss with Ames the death of the JFK magic bullet theory; Ethiopia's newest phase of its civil wars now with Amhara's Fano rebels; Armenia's doo

Recorded: February 15, 2022 As the War Nerd packs his bags for the Great White North, he walks us through a year in Africa coups across the Sahel. This episode: Guinea Bissau, Burkino Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan... First: Ames and the Nerd discuss border crossings, Ukraine/Atlantic Council follie

Recorded: April 22, 2021 News that Chad president Idriss Déby was killed in battle got us thinking: it's time to talk about Chad, which is practically synonymous with technicals. Maps: *Chad cities & provinces *Chad topography Total time: 1:32:00 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Guest: Lindsey Snell, journalist Recorded: February 3, 2021 We talk to investigative journalist Lindsey Snell about what it was like to be kidnapped by Al Qaeda's Syria franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra/HTS, and her reporting on Turkey's wars in Artsakh, Libya and Syria. Follow Lindsey on Twitter. Check ou

Guest: Annibale Recorded: November 28, 2020 The War Nerd closes out November with an episode on the Italo-Turkish War in Libya on the eve of World War I. First, we discuss the latest pandemic news out of Italy... At 25:33 - Annibale explains the background to the Italo-Turkish war over Libya, the wa

Recorded: January 29, 2020 Guest: "Jared," pilot BANGKOK— The War Nerd thumbs his nose at the conovirus from his rental in Bangkok, Thailand, the country with the second largest death count . . . The Nerd and Ames look at current war news, from confessions of a Salvadoran dirty war commander, to war

Recorded December 29, 2019 Images: *One of Steven Sotloff's last tweets. 2 months later, he was kidnapped & sold to ISIS. *John McCain posing with Sotloff's soon-to-be-kidnapper, Mohamed Nour of the Northern Storm Brigade (holding gun). May 2013. Total time: 1:48:47 Direct link to this episode's mp3