Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite Commando during WWII, he was also a total loser.
Sources:
Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943
Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando
2022-11-02 12:26:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt is attached below. Thank you for supporting the show!
Things continue to get worse for Mongol Armenia leading to one of the weirdest attempts to seize the throne in Armenian history.
2022-11-01 06:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostAn order of knights turned protection racket defend a chunk of rock from an Ottoman force several times their size using the military equivalent of Home Alone tactics.
and then people began firing heads out of cannons.
sources:
https://www.historynet.com/no-mercy-malta/ 2022-10-26 07:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Joe is joined by Francis Horton to discuss the Battle of Inkerman. Taking place during the Crimean War, the Russian Empire launches a frontal assault against a fortified British and French position on top of a hill without any real planning and is defeated in the dumbest way possible.
2022-10-22 09:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe US Marines throw thousands of their men into a Japanese wood chipper because they don't feel like sharing glory with the US Army. All for no reason!
Sources:
Sledge, Eugene B. (1990). With the Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa
Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My P...
2022-10-19 18:51:20 +0000 UTC View PostA lot happened in Armenia in September 2022. I figured maybe we should talk about it.
Our regular Mongol Armenia series will return next episode.
2022-10-16 08:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Russian Empire attempts to invade a small khanate to steal their gold and loses to a winter storm.
Sources:
Morrison, Alexander, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia"
"A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva under General Perofski", Translated from the Russian for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Calcutta, 186...
2022-10-14 03:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostIf you like military sci fi you can get it for almost nothing via KU. Or don't, it's up to you.
Francis embraces Floridian culture (gets covid), Shocks celebrates the death of the Queen, and not a single character on Rome deserves happiness.
2022-10-06 10:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe conclusion to the Witold Pilecki story
2022-10-05 14:13:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt is posted below for everyone who is supporting the show at the 5$ and up levels. Thank you everyone!
2022-10-02 12:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostPilecki plots his escape when it becomes clear that the allies will do nothing about the crimes being committed within Auschwitz
2022-09-26 05:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostWitold Pelicki was a Polish Freedom Fighter who volunteered himself to get thrown into Auschwitz in order to let the world know what was happening there.
The world didn't listen.
The Armenian Kingdoms start going through the process of Mongol domination. It goes better for some than others.
Lauren Prezbindowski. The Ilkhanid Mongols, the Christian Armenians, and the Islamic Mamluks : a study of their relations, 1220-1335
Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog. The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
2022-09-20 12:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostRome kills 80,000 of their own soldiers because of a personal beef.
Sources:
Theodor Mommsen. The History of Rome IV "The Revolution"
Plutarch. Life of Marius.
Richard Evans. Rome's Cimbric Wars
Peter Tsouras. The Cimbrian War, 113-101 BC
Mike Duncan. The Storm before the Storm
2022-09-16 08:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostDuring WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI.
Sources:
if you like military sci-fi Joe's upcoming book The Frontier Corps is now up for Pre-order. The ebook is free if you have Kindle Unlimited (the same amount of money is made whether you get it from Amazon or not, so don't worry about it.
The homies return to talk about Shock's anonymous hate account and the time he downloaded pirated version of Columbo only to end up looking at pages and pages of CERN based conspiracy theories. Also, we talk about HBO's Rome for a little bit.
2022-09-08 11:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe other thread got buried so here is a new one.
2022-09-06 12:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostShortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese military set their eyes on a tiny speck of a rock staffed with a handful of Marines and civilian contractors. Trapped and with no hope of relief, the strange adhoc garrison made the invaders bleed.
Sources:
For all 5$ and up supporters of the show your ebook file of HoK is attached below.
2022-09-03 13:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostA tent salesman scrapes together an army out of Texas draft rejects, arms them with shotguns and lances, and tries to invade New Mexico without any food or water.
Sources:
The United States invents a navy to go to war against pirates on the other side of the world, accomplishes almost nothing.
Sources:
Wheelan, Joseph (2003), Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805
Zacks, Richard (2005), The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
The Saga of Mongol Armenia begins!
Sources:
Prezvindowswk, Lauren. The Iikanid Mongols, the Christian Armenians, and the Islamic Mamluks 1220-1335
Bayarasaikhan Dashdondog. The Mongols and the Armenians 1220-1335
Kirakos. History of the Armenians
Hayton of Corycus. Flowers of the Histories of the East
Bournoutian, George. A concise Hist...
2022-08-24 04:56:17 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time the US Navy went on a scientific expedition based upon the theory of a hollow earth. They murdered swaths of innocent people and the commander went insane, beating and kidnapping most of his own crew.
Sources:
https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/...
2022-08-19 15:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostJoe and Sarah tell the story of pigeon guided bombs, spy cats, and an insane dentist who wanted to weaponize bats.
2022-08-11 04:15:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe conclusion the Battle of Lake Tanganyika (and Simson's naval career)
2022-08-05 04:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe British military during WWI devises the most pointless battle of the entire war.
Enter Geoffrey Spicer Simson, the worst officer in the entire British navy.
Sources:
Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
2022-08-05 04:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post