Radio War Nerd

Guest: Annibale Recorded: September 10, 2026 Annibale joins to discuss Ansarallah's stunning sweep of Saudi-backed forces and seizure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the unraveling of the US empire + part 3 of our Soviet-Finnish Wars series, taking us into the first months of Finland's key role in N

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 29, 2026 In this installment of our Operation Barbarossa series, Annibale brings us to the brink of the Soviet counteroffensive outside Moscow, as the Nazi invasion force is stretched beyond its limits, the result of a delusional invasion plan and the many contradicti

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 30, 2026 Part 2 of Annibale's series recovering the actual history of the much-abused "Munich 1938" myth. In this episode, Annibale explains how the western powers were Munich-1938'ing year after year, crisis after crisis, so that by the time the actual Munich confe

Guest: Annibale Recorded: December 22, 2025 The War Nerd returns to battlecast in time for the final leg of Annibale's Operation Barbarossa series: Operation Typhoon, the Battle of Moscow. This episode, Dr. Dolan describes the war inside his bloodied cranium, Ames groans under microbic occupation fo

Guest: Annibale Recorded: December 11, 2025 Big episode! Annibale explains the 1941 Battle of Kiev and the apex of Hitler's war machine before the fall, in part 6 of our Operation Barbarossa series... plus The War Nerd returns with a message for the RWN Legion. First at 01:20 - The War Nerd describe

Guest: Annibale Recorded: November 21, 2025 In part 5 of our series on Operation Barbarossa, Annibale sets up the famous Battle of Smolensk in 1941. The first serious cracks in the Nazi war machine begin to show three weeks into the invasion. Maps (reprinted from David Glantz's excellent work Barbar

Guest: Annibale Recorded: November 3, 2025 In part 4 of our series on Operation Barbarossa, Annibale describes the initial phase of the German invasion, from June 22, 1941 - July 10. ORDER YOUR COPY OF THE NEW WAR NERD BOOK: THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANGED: WAR NERD ESSAYS ON THE U.S. CIVIL WAR Annibal

Guest: Annibale Recorded: October 14, 2025 In part 3 of our series on Operation Barbarossa, Annibale sorts through fact from fiction regarding Soviet preparations in the lead-up to Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Listen to Annibale's Operation Barbarossa series: -Operation Barbaros

Guest: Annibale Recorded: October 10, 2025 In part 2 of our Operation Barbarossa series (Part 1 here), Annibale recovers lost history on Poland in the 1930s, which nearly allied with Nazi Germany in an earlier-planned Barbarossa. We also discuss Germany's other allies in the 1941 invasion, and begin

Guest: Annibale Recorded: October 1, 2025 While the War Nerd recovers on IR, we begin our series on the largest military offensive in history, Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. And who better to lead us through the slaughter than RWN special correspo

Guest: Annibale In part 2 of our series on the Battles of Nomonhan, Annibale takes us to the main battles between Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, in March 1939, and in July-August 1939, changing how World War II played out in both Europe and the Far East/Pacific. *Maps *What Imperial Japanese A

Guest: Annibale Recorded: July 26, 2025 The War Nerd is back, along with our old friend Annibale for our series on the Battles of Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol) on the eve of WWII, the most consequential battles you've never heard of. This episode, Annibale provides background on Japan's politics and milit

Guest: Annibale Recorded: September 12, 2024 Annibale returns to discuss WW2 myths and distortions, from the revisionist-right ramblings of Darryl Cooper about the war's origins, to the controversy over Lend-Lease's role in the Red Army's successes up to Operation Bagration. *Listen to Annibale's Op

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 28, 2024 We're joined by friend of the pod Annibale to discuss the Soviets' Operation Bagration in 1944, one of the most decisive military campaigns in history. This episode, Annibale sets up the back story to Bagration: the Tehran Conference in 1943, Soviet advances i

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 18, 2024 Part 2 of our 3-part series on the Battle of Kursk (part 1 here), with Annibale. This episode: the Soviets turn the tide against the Nazis at Prokhorovka, popularly known as the largest tank battle in history. Listen to part 1 of our Battle of Kursk series (E

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 9, 2024 Annibale joins us for a 3-part series on the Battle of Kursk in WW2, the myths vs the realities, and some parallels to the current war in Ukraine. In part 1, we discuss the background, the battle plans, and the planning. For more, check out these episodes with

Guest: Annibale After the Canadian parliament jumped from their seats to give a thundering standing ovation to a Waffen SS veteran, we at RWN vowed to Never Forget, and that means summoning our old friend Annibale to help us recover lost history & debunk post-WW2 whitewashing myths about the Waffen

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 21, 2021 We talk to popular RWN guest Annibale about the murky 1970 Borghese Coup, in the early part of Italy's Years Of Lead. In part one, we look at Junio Borghese's background: the famous Borghese family, his wartime heroics & plans to bomb New York harbor, and h

Guest: Annibale Recorded: June 28, 2020 Popular RWN guest Annibale wraps up his 5-part series on Italy on the Eastern Front in World War II. This episode: the political and cultural fallout of the Italian POWs in the Soviet Union, through films, political culture, and weaponized history... Listen to

Guest: Annibale Recorded: May 27, 2020 Fourth in our series with popular RWN guest "Annibale" on Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII. This episode: the fate of Italian POWs taken by the Soviets after they smashed Italian and Axis lines in early 1943, and how the POWs influenced Italian postwar politi

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 24, 2020 In this second part of Annibale's look at Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII, Hitler agrees to have a modest-sized Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia join the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union to perform mostly backup duties well behind the front lines. By

Guest: Annibale Originally recorded: April 26, 2018 In honor of the 75th anniversary of Italy Liberation Day from the Nazis, we're reposting open & unlocked this episode on the Italian Resistance Movement in World War II. We know all about the French Resistance in WWII, but nothing about the far lar

Recorded: April 17, 2020 Guest: Annibale First, the War Nerd and Ames discuss foxes... At 07:45 - Annibale joins us for an update on the pandemic in Italy: crackdown on Lombardy's privatized medical care hucksters & coming to grips with possibility there'll be no vaccine or cure... At 31:00 - Anniba

Guest: Annabile, Italian war nerd Recorded April 26, 2018 We know all about the French Resistance in WWII, but nothing about the far larger Italian Resistance movement that emerged in 1943, and the various wars that took place inside Italy from 1943-45. Thankfully we have Italian war nerd "Annibale"