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Radio War Nerd EP #199 — Algeria (Patreon)

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2019-09-28 21:44:12
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2026-06
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Guest: James McDougall, author & professor 

Recorded: September 24, 2019

Judging by subscriber requests over the years, you can't call yourself a true war nerd podcast until you've covered the famous France-Algeria War of the 1950s. Lucky for us, we're joined by Oxford U. history professor James McDougall, author of a remarkable book on the history of Algeria from 1500 to the present: from the Hapsburg Spanish invasions that helped define modern Algeria in the 16th-C., through the Ottoman and French colonial periods, up to the war against France for independence and the murky & savage civil war of the 1990s against proto-ISIS Islamist guerrillas. 

Buy James McDougall's book "A History of Algeria". Follow him on Twitter.

Maps:

*Algeria

*Northern Algeria cities

*Oil & gas industry

Total time: 2:26:49

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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JoR

I know it probably depends on getting a guest, but it'd be great if the ~200th episode could be on the Mongols. Theyll well overdue to get some coverage. Even if it's just you two doing an hour or two on them on what you can find if a guest can't do it. Maybe Carl Zha knows enough to talk about them?

Mark Sheffield

Maybe something soon with Matyszak about the Diadochi / Hellenistic kingdoms? He’s got a book coming out in January about it I think. And more sci-fi recommendations or episodes please!

Larry Dimes

I've got a request for you gentlemen. Waco and Rashneeshpuram. I first heard about Rajneeshpuram in an offhand mention made by the WarNerd in a newsletter and the story blew my mind when I did some digging. Stockpiling biological and chemical weapons and trying to do ethnic cleansing and a coup! In the contental United States! in the 1980's! I couldn't help not making comparisons to Waco and the absurdly massive response by the government to the Branch Davidians and the essentially total silence regarding Rajneeshpuram. I'd like to hear your takes on these two cults and the politics around them. And if that's too niche, then I second the Mongols.

Eamon

Can't wait to listen to this but I agree would love an in-depth take on the Mongols or the Crusades. You guys rock

Edward P Slocomb

Off topic, but does anyone know if there's been any follow-up reporting to Yemen's claim to have taken out three brigades inside Saudi Arabia? AFAICT none of the western world's newspapers have even bothered to ask the Saudis to confirm or deny the raid...

MoldyTolge

Those articles made me feel like I was in a fever dream. To the best of my knowledge KSA hasn’t commented, Houthis haven’t released further evidence, but the video did show a damaged Canadian-manufactured APC that supposedly isn’t being sold to the Saudis. Not that surprising but I think it’s worth keeping tabs on probably illegal arms sales to KSA.

M Pendleton

My fun fact on thethe LAV-6 is that Canada whined so much that the Kingdom never fully paid the Ontario-based General Dynamics plant for them.

Spencer Davis

Would love to hear an episode on the Crusades (if not a couple). A guest I would suggest is a prof I had in Vancouver, Dr Niall Christie, who wrote a couple books about the collaborations between the Christians and Muslims during that period. He's an incredibly engaging story teller. Link to one of his books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1138022748

zaabittimov

It would be awesome to have a Papua conflict episode, especially since it's been flaring up again recently. It would also be interesting to do a 1st and 2nd congo wars series, and really, any African content

John Stones

hi, around 50m in Mark talks about the apparent contradiction of Liberalism between granting certain inalienable rights to some and actively denying/stripping those very rights to others, I reccomend Losurdo's fantastic Liberalism : A Counter-History which explores this in detail. https://www.versobooks.com/books/960-liberalism

Ilya Fishman

What an amazing episode. The author provides so much insight and depth into the history of Algeria.

Aditya V

This was great. Was in High School in the early 90s. Would read almost daily reports in the newspaper about this nightmarish situation in Algeria. Maybe the reporting was great, I used to feel the real dread of that situation. Was 15 years old in 1992, and already an avid newspaper reader. At the same time, things in India too were pretty wretched. Punjab militancy, Kashmir militancy, the Naxalites, North East militancy in Assam etc. The killings in the Punjab were quite dreadful.

Aditya V

Also enjoyed discussion with Mr. Levine. Got to know some new stuff