Military History & War
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“One of my favourite ones. So I had John Lisle on the Dirty Tricks Department. He's here in Austin. And what I love about him is he's got access to the archives and he goes and does so much of the research, like of source, source, source material in the archives, dusting shit off.”
Modern Wisdom · The Most Hardcore Military Stories In History - The Fat Electrician - #1165 · 19/10/2026 · at 1:22:30
- 2Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in Warby Robert A. Pape · 1 episode
“of his Go code, they are to execute the plan. So I've got your book here, Bombing to Win, Air Power and Coercion in War. And you actually spent a long time modeling what would happen if the U.S. decided to bomb Iran before they did. That's right, 20 years. And what you said to me in these previous conversations we've had has played out in a really, you know, very interesting but very accurate way.”
The Diary Of A CEO · Iran War Expert: The 8 Most Dangerous Weeks Begin Now, A Cyberattack Could Knock Out The Internet! | Prof Robert Pape · 05/11/2026 · at 14:44
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777by Rick Atkinson · 1 episode“But the first one is called The British Are Coming and he has, the second volume is out about...”
My First Million · How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money · 16/06/2026 · at 52:21
- 4The Command of the Airby Giulio Douhet · 1 episode
“That's what that's look. Here's the since World War I starts with Julio DuHey. He wrote a book, Command in the Air, mostly has to do with air power. There's been a hope with either economic blockades or air power that air power or blockades without a ground force could incite a popular revolt to topple the government so that we don't want to do it, you do it for us.”
Modern Wisdom · WW3 DEBATE: “We’re On the Brink of Global Collapse” - #1144 · 31/08/2026 · at 1:28:10
- 5The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the Worldby Jonathan Freedland · 1 episode
“I like reading a lot of like World War II and Holocaust books. And me too. It's crazy. Like there's this one called The Escape Artist, and it's one of the only guys to escape from Auschwitz, one of the other Jews. I never heard of this. It's fantastic. I mean, it's, you know, I don't know, fantastic as you describe it, but it's definitely riveting.”
My First Million · Robert Greene almost died. Here’s what it taught him about living · 11/11/2026 · at 23:19
- 6The Guns of Augustby Barbara Tuchman · 1 episode
“She wrote Guns of August, about the origins of World War I. A great book, not a biography, but a fantastic book.”
My First Million · How the Ex-Goldman CEO actually invests his own money · 16/06/2026 · at 46:58
- 7The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Opsby Damien Lewis · 1 episode
“That's pretty exciting. I mean, the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a little bit of a shame. The movie? No, the book. Because I was such a fan of the book first. And I don't know whether you ever listened to the audiobook that's behind it, but the guy that did the audiobook has just got the most brilliant, classic sort of 1940s posh British accent.”
Modern Wisdom · The Most Hardcore Military Stories In History - The Fat Electrician - #1165 · 19/10/2026 · at 1:18:33