Radio War Nerd

Guest: Seth Harp, investigative reporter Originally recorded: May 2, 2022 We're reposting our interview with investigative reporter Seth Harp shortly after he returned from a 5-week reporting stint in Ukraine for Harpers magazine. We discuss Ukraine's tightly controlled media environment, sorting fa

Guest: Peter Korotaev ("George Andersen") Recorded: March 1, 2022 We talk to American-Ukrainian George Andersen about life in Kiev under Russian bombs, his escape to the western edge of the country, and about where the war is heading. Total time: 1:44:03 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Guest: Kelley Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft editor Recorded: December 4, 2020 Kelley Vlahos returns to RWN to size up the successes and failures of Trump foreign policy, warn us about the return of the Blob under Biden, and throw us for bit of a loop with some potentially positive developments for

FARC & Colombia With FARC-Colombia ceasefire ending half a century of brutal war, the War Nerd walks us back through Colombia's ruling class bloodbaths in 1899-1902 and La Violence 50 years later, before the FARC appeared — and tries making sense of this little understood and remarkably successful M

Syria wars & Jarabulus Guest: Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, author of Chaos & Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Great interview with Patrick Cockburn in Damascus, on life in the war-torn capital today, changes and developments in the wars in Syria, and the rebr

Italian Front in WWI After barely surviving a camping trip in the Italian Alps, the War Nerd returns to Turin to tell the little-known, gory story of the Italian Front in World War I. It begins with a comically loathsome celebrity poet, Gabriele d'Annunzio, and ends — after hundreds of thousands of