Radio War Nerd

Guest: Michael Woldemariam Recorded: October 15, 2026 The war in the Horn that we've been anticipating with dread has broken out. We talk to professor Michael Woldemariam, an expert in Horn of Africa wars and security at U. Maryland, to discuss the historical context of this war, the differences bet

Guest: Matt ("Barry with the NED") Recorded: September 23, 2026 We talk to Matt, who runs one of the great OSINT accounts of 2026 - @Bonzerbarry, aka Barry with the NED - about the war in Yemen reignited this summer when the Saudis bombed the airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa: Ansarallah's battle ta

Guest: Andreas Krieg Recorded: June 16, 2026 Andreas Krieg assesses the winners & mostly-losers in the aftermath of the US-Israel War on Iran, with a focus on the UAE's rude awakening. Follow Andreas on Twitter. Further listening: *RWN #564 — The UAE Empire feat Andreas Krieg *RWN #207 — Republic of

Guest: Joshua Craze Recorded: April 24, 2026 Sudan researcher/journalist Joshua Craze returns to RWN for the grim 3rd year anniversary of the war. He describes the increasingly fractal and messy nature of the war, its shifting alliances within and outside of Sudan, the genocidal massacres in El Fash

Guest: Mouin Rabbani Recorded: January 19, 2026 Mouin Rabbani returns to RWN to update us on the year 3 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, the phony "ceasefire" and worsening regional chaos. Subscribe to Mouin's newsletter. Listen to Mouin's podcast Connections. Follow him on Twitter. Further listening w

Guests: Andreas Krieg + "Cyrus" Originally recorded: November 20, 2025 We're reposting unlocked our episode with Andreas Krieg and "Cyrus" on the United Arab Emirates rise to regional power and how it runs its maritime empire, plus the latest from Iraq's elections and the state of its democracy. Fir

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

Guest: Joshua Craze Recorded: June 10, 2025 Joshua Craze returns to the pod to explain how the Sudan war transformed into a larger regional war entering its third year, and why South Sudan's civil war never really ended, it's just that it became impossible to ignore. More listening with Joshua Craze

Recorded: September 9, 2024 We discuss South Carolina slaver incest, brewing war in the Horn, Venezuela's oppo leader flees, imperial headline porn over Palestine, Ukraine crumbling... Total time: 1:05:48 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarner

Guest: Thierry Jutel Recorded: July 29, 2024 We discuss Alex Garland's "Civil War" flick with NZ-based film professor Thierry Jutel, and roundup the latest wretched irl war news from Sudan to Ukraine... First - we talk with Thierry Jutel about "Civil War" and vibes... At 52:40 - music interlude by B

Recorded: November 15, 2023 Roundup of the latest war news: Myanmar's new rebel alliance; Ethiopia's got its eye on someone else's beachfront property; Ukraine no longer the belle of Washington's ball; latest in the Gaza slaughter... *Music break by Brendon Anderegg (check out his group Mountains he

Recorded: December 21, 2021 Looking back at another miserable year in humanity's oldest profession. The War Nerd & Ames discuss the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict, Afghanistan, Cold War sequels & the end-of-the-year Russia/Ukraine hysteria. Thanks to the mighty RWN community for making the show happen, we

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: May 12, 2021 What do endangered grouses, Qatari royals, Syrian sectarian population exchanges, and kidnapping have in common? We're joined by RWN guest Aamer to make sense of one of the wildest, dumbest & darkest episodes of the past decade. Check out the n

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: February 12, 2021 Bahrain is known to USians as "the home of the US Fifth Fleet". But you may be shocked to learn that there's more to this Persian Gulf island kingdom than floating American coffins. We talk to previous RWN guest Aamer about the history of

Recorded: November 24, 2020 First: the War Nerd survives snorkeling in the Irish Sea in search of his octopus teacher... At 11:22 - we look at the rapidly-developing war in Ethiopia between federal forces led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed, and the powerful Tigrayan TPLF forces in the north.

Guest: "Cyrus", MENA researcher Recorded: June 15, 2020 Are the nationwide protests across the US anything like the Arab Spring? We spoke to MENA researcher "Cyrus", who has spent much of the past two decades in the region researching the political changes from the US invasion of Iraq up through to

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: 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: Isa Blumi, author and professor Recorded August 28, 2018 The War Nerd talks to Isa Blumi about the Yemen war's little-reported deep causes — political, financial, imperialist—in a wide-ranging interview. Blumi explains the murky political and strategic differences between Qatar, Saudis and UA

Guest: Bethan McKernan, journalist (The Independent) Recorded May 6, 2018 The War Nerd talks to Beirut-based journalist Bethan McKernan about her brilliant reporting on the emerging United Arab Emirates stealth-empire stretching from the Indian Ocean up the Red Sea, and her venture into one of the U