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Joe is joined by Chris and Quinn of Failure to Launch to talk about the first major battle of the First Crusades and how the Crusaders stumbled over their own feet to victory
sources:
Runciman, Steven (2005). The First Crusade. New York: Cambridge University Press
Historia Hierosolymitana
John France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Hoping to get one over on their Spartan enemies, Athens is tricked by some fancy furniture and sweet chains and invades Sicily. Before the operation can even start, one commander who is trying to stop the invasion frames another for the crime of sacrilege, leading him to defect to the Spartans and convince them to join the war to stop Athens. Somehow, that isn't even the strangest thing that happens over the next two years.
SOURCES:
Ellis, Walter M. Alcibiades. New York: Routledge, 1989
Kagan, Donald. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press,
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. Translated by Richard Crawley.
Strauss, Barry S., and Josiah Ober. The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990
Porter, Barry. Misplaced Aggression: The Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. Military Heritage. Vol. 9 No. 2. -
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Joe, Nate, and Tom get the Guise together in Part II of our new series on the French Wars of Religion as tensions rise, and discuss medieval Laura Loomer, it being about ethics in troubadour journalism, and physical ailments that don't improve for being lanced.
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During the closing of the Hundred Years' War the English decide to launch a cavalry charge against in an entrenched French army, directly into the barrels of hundreds of cannons. It does not end well.
SOURCES:
Welsh, William. Castilion: The Last Battle of the Hundred Years' War. Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9, No. 5.
Curry, Anne. (1993). The Hundred Years War. New York. St. Martin's Press.
Grummitt, David (2010). "Castillon, Siege and Battle of". In Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.
Nolan, Cathal J., ed. (2006). "Castillon, Battle of (July 17, 1453)". The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press.
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Joe and Tom are once again joined by Gregk Foley of Blood Work to talk about the US Army's Operation Aphrodite during WWII. When a bunch of engineers attempted to create the world's first suicide attack drone. It resulted in a series of dead pilots, nearly blowing up several British villages, and one dead Kennedy.
SOURCES:
Freeman, Roger. The Mighty Eighth.
Spark, Nick. Television Goes to War. https://web.archive.org/web/20080417214556/http://www.mugualumni.org/secretarsenal/page9.html
Gary, Edwin. Operation Aphrodite's B-17 "Smart Bomb."
Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olse
Webb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1 -
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During WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently.
SOURCES:
https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-island
https://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/
https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.html
https://www.uswardogs.org/WWII
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-ii
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-day
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French and English colonies in North America go to war as a part of the larger War of Spanish Succession. Soon an allied force of French soldiers, militia, and Native Warriors are snowshoeing their way from New France to Massachusetts in order to destroy the town of Deerfield.
SOURCES:
Calloway, Colin Gordon. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England
P.G. Smith. "This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a Small Town in Massachusetts." P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/
https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacre
https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-america
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Once upon a time the Russian Empire funded the construction of what might be the world's dumbest tank that is arguably not a tank at all. Larger than any of its peers during WWI, the Tsar Tank goes down in history due to its strange shape, weird wheels, and the fact that developers of the Battlefield video game series thought it was too unrealistic to put it in one of their games.
SOURCES:
Zaloga, Steven. Grandsen, James. Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two.
Milsom, John. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-tsar-tank-is-possibly-the-strangest-tank-ever-devised
https://www.rbth.com/defence/2014/09/29/the_first_russian_tanks_a_long_and_difficult_road_to_the_battlefield_40199.html
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A tiny speck of inhospitable black sand turns into hell on earth as tens of thousands of men slaughter one another over caves, bunkers, and mountains. Armed with explosives, flame throwers, napalm, and more naval gunfire than the Japanese had ever seen, US Marines struggle through one of the most horrific battles of the Pacific Campaign of WWII.
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SOURCES:
Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945
Allen, Robert E. The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-Day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls.
Burrell, Robert S. "Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment"
Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945
Leckie, Robert. The Battle for Iwo Jima
Kakehashi, Kumiko. So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima
Wheeler, Richard. Iwo Jima.
Tatum, Chuck. Red Blood, Black Sand: With John Basilone on Iwo Jima -
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The Spanish see the crowning of a French child king as an opportunity to invade. They deploy the Army of Flanders. Once mighty, but now reduced to being commanded by idiots and one man who was so old and sick that he had to be dragged around the battlefield in a chair.
SOURCES:
Ribas, Alberto Raúl Esteban. The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers.
Sanchez, Juan. "Paul Bernard de Fontaine (1576 – 1643), señor de Fougerolles, Conde del S.R.I."
Stephane Thion. Rocroi 1643: The Victory of Youth.
Welsh, William. Spanish Disaster at Rocroi. Late Winter 2012. Vol 13, No. 4
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Once upon a time there was a supply convoy called PQ-17, loaded down with tons of supplies and heading to the Soviet Union. Over the course of several days the convoy was destroyed by a combination of terrible intelligence, fear of confrontation with the German Surface Fleet, and a commander with a brain tumor.
SOURCES:
Beesly, Patrick. Convoy PQ 17: A Study of Intelligence and Decision-Making
Bunker, John. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of WWII
Hague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation.
Milton, Keith. Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster. Military Heritage. June 2001. Volume 2, no. 6
Lippman, David. 'Convoy is to Scatter.' : Arctic Convoy Disaster. WWII History. Winter 2012. Volume 11, No. 1 -
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