Radio War Nerd

Guests: Brendan James & Noah Kulwin, co-hosts Blowback Recorded: August 2, 2022 We talk about the Korean War with the cohosts of the excellent Blowback podcast, who just put out a 10-part series recovering the "forgotten war" history. Subscribe here to the Blowback podcast and get all 3 seasons: Ira

Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded: October 28, 2021 In part 2 of our series on the First China-US Cold War, we look at a handful of significant — and bloody — battles in the weeks and months after Mao's Communists took control of mainland China: The Battle of Kinmen, off the coast of China's south

Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded: October 26, 2021 The War Nerd welcomes back RWN legend Carl Zha for a new series on the First China-US Cold War, because we're all in the sequel whether we like it or not. In this introductory episode, Carl looks at US-China relations going way back to the Boston

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: Vincent Bevins, journalist & author Recorded: May 15, 2020 The 1965 anticommunist holocaust in Indonesia killed somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million, though we don't know the actual figure, for reasons we discuss—and it was fully supported by the US Embassy and Washington. Why do we know s

Recorded: January 26, 2020 BANGKOK— With the recent death of Oman's longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos, the War Nerd and Ames recover the little known history of Oman, British colonial rule, and the forgotten leftist Dhofar Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. But first: At 08:18 Ames quickly reviews Sam Me

Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded: February 23, 2019 It's the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, a brief and bloody war between two Communist neighbors that was little understood in the West, and has largely been forgotten since. The War Nerd invites one of our favorite guests back

Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded September 14, 2018 For non-subscribers, here is a 20+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 149 with Carl Zha on recent stories about China forcing millions of Uyghurs into reeducation camps — and the recovered history of Xinjiang's demographic and political hi

Guest: Carl Zha The Taiping Rebellion was the deadliest war of the 19th C, maybe in history—between 20 million and 100 million died in fighting between a Chinese cult leader's army in southern China, and the decaying Qing dynasty . . . The War Nerd is joined by fellow "history nerd" Carl Zha, a nati