Radio War Nerd

Recorded: March 20, 2025 As promised, the War Nerd delivers a two-part series on the great British Naval Mutinies of the late 1790s. This episode explores the context of the mutinies: the brutality of life on board the ships, the press-gangs, British colonial rule in Ireland, Wolfe Tone, Hugh Pigot.

Recorded: February 19, 2023 Part one in our 2-part series on Flaubert's novel, Salammbô, on ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War, otherwise known as the Truceless War. In this prequel episode, we look at the background to the Mercenary War: Carthage's first disastrous war with Rome, the First P

Recorded: April 14, 2022 Your humble RWN hosts respond to subscriber comments about Russia's war on Ukraine. Total time: 1:34:00 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Guests: James Dahl, "Cannon Dan," Meredith Avila Recorded: August 12, 2019 August 12, 2019: a date that will live in minor infamy, a day in which Radio War Nerd invaded Brooklyn with nuthin but a bag full of laptops, some hastily typed up notes, and enough anxiety to paralyze an army. It was our fir

Guest: Andrew Cockburn, Washington DC editor, Harpers magazine Recorded: July 24, 2019 The theme of this episode is Pentagon weapons procurements sleaze — the disconnect between alleged defense needs vs actual weapons purchases, from the Reagan Era through today. First, we talk to Andrew Cockburn ab

Originally recorded July 24, 2018 By popular demand from our subscribers, we're reposting free for the public our episode on Iran War scenarios, and the disasters that each scenario brings. War with Iran is reckless, insane, stupid, immoral and doomed to failure — which is exactly why the sleazy imb

Recorded July 24, 2018 Trump and the DC War Party recently rolled out their big blustery marketing campaign for an Iran War. Are they bluffing, or are they just clinically insane?—the eternal question about Washington "experts"... In this episode, the War Nerd considers different war scenarios, and