It could be argued that World War I was decided at sea. The British blockade; the Germans try unrestricted submarine warfare, and massive consequences follow. We talk about Jutland, Skaggerak, the Lui

Among the many changes wrought by WW1 was an irrevocable change in the status of women. Munitions girls, women running the Paris Metro and the buses in London, policewomen and auxilaries. We conclud

The conditions may not have been optimal but they didnt look to be getting better so the Irish Revolutionaries made their move in Easter 1916. A week of urban warfare followed the revolutionaries

We didnt have quorum for a tankie therapy session but we got together anyway Matteo and Alex joined for a discussion of several psychological warfare methods being used on us: normalizing crimes, t

The battles of Verdun, the Somme, and the Brusilov Offensive. Epic, tragic military errors, horrors of trenches, battles that killed hundreds of thousands and changed the course of history.

The siege on Gaza and the role of the Palestinian Authority are critical context for the Israels assault on Gaza. On this episode we take a look at the history of the blockade and how Israel has ghet

Genocides happen in broad daylight it is only afterwards that they are covered up. There are still fewer countries that recognize the Armenian Genocide than countries that do not. We read scholars t

Waqas Ahmad is back and we recap Pakistan politics since the 2022 coup against Imran Khan. After assassination attempts, vexatious lawsuits, thousands of arrests, torture, and the banning of Imran Kha

In desperation, the European empires turn to the people theyve colonized and press them into sacrificing their lives for their imperial masters, setting off a chain of events that makes decolonizatio

Israeli media recently published a minute-by-minute chronology of the morning of October 7th from the Israeli military perspective. Jon and I go over it as part of my youtube series of Gaza Sit Reps (