November 9

Bonus Ep. 10 Reissue: “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain


This episode is a reissue (for a limited time on the public feed) of DHP Bonus Ep. 10: “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain, produced back in 2017.

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December 12

Ep. 0249: Chasing Ghosts w/Bill Buppert

For this DHP episode, CJ was delighted to be joined by retired Army officer, military contractor, and irregular warfare expert Bill Buppert. Long-time DHP listeners (& those who’ve gone through the back catalogue) may recall that Bill was the very first guest CJ ever had on the DHP, all the way back in 2015. A few months ago, Bill launched a podcast of his own, Chasing Ghosts, in which he covers the history, theory & practice of irregular warfare, and the shortcomings of its alleged antidote, counterinsurgency.

Join CJ & Bill as they discuss Bill’s background, his podcast, irregular warfare, the problems with counterinsurgency, and 3 of the greatest practitioners of irregular warfare in the 20th century – Michael Collins, T.E. Lawrence, & Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck, who all operated c. 1916-1922.

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December 7

Ep. 0248: “Led to Commit an Overt Act of War”: A Fun-Size DHP Pearl Harbor Day Special

Join CJ as he discusses the so-called “McCollum Memo” from the Office of Naval Intelligence, written by ONI officer Arthur McCollum & dated October 7th, 1940, which served as the blueprint for the FDR Administration’s strategy of deliberately provoking Japan, a strategy that culminated in the Pearl Harbor attack 14 months later.

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November 30

Ep. 0247: Reckless Provocations w/Scott Horton


For this episode, CJ was very happy to welcome back foreign policy expert Scott Horton to the Dangerous History Podcast. Scott is the Director of the Libertarian Institute, host of the Scott Horton Show, Editorial Director at Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, and is the author or editor of 4 books (available here.) He’s also currently working on his next book – on the Russo-Ukraine War – which will be co-authored with Darryl Cooper of the Martyrmade podcast.

Join CJ & Scott for a wide-ranging discussion, mostly on the real history of the Russo-Ukraine War, but including lots of interesting tangents along the way (even a bit of Woodrow-Wilson bashing!)

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July 13

Ep. 0236: WWI Propaganda in the US Part 1: Perfidious Albion’s Propaganda

Finally! Here it is – the longest and, I believe, the most important Dangerous History Podcast episode I’ve done to date! (I recorded the first of many segments for this episode all the way back in April, and had been researching & composing notes for it for many months before that!)

Join CJ as he discusses the massive British propaganda operation in the US that ran from 1914-1917 (during the period of American “neutrality”), which was a crucial factor in eventually bringing the US into World War I.

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March 19

Ep. 0233: CJ’s Top 10 War Propaganda Techniques

Join CJ as he first gives an update on a few recent personal difficulties, and then goes over the following war propaganda techniques:

  • Demonize the enemy’s leader.
  • Dehumanize the enemy’s people.
  • Turn the conflict into a super-simplistic morality play.
  • Fabricate heroic stories about your side.
  • Fabricate and/or exaggerate enemy atrocity stories.
  • Exaggerate the enemy’s intentions and/or capabilities.
  • Lie by omission/Cherry-pick.
  • Crop the story/truncate the antecedents.
  • Give your people empty symbolic gestures to signal their virtue.
  • Smear/demonize any of your people who question or criticize The Narrative.

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February 15

Ep. 0196: Agents Unknown w/John Murphy & Michael Reiter

In this DHP episode, CJ is joined by John Murphy and Michael Reiter, who are, respectively, the star and director of the extremely interesting documentary film Agents Unknown: A Vietnam War Intelligence Officer’s Story, which tells the story of John’s experience as a military intelligence officer in the Vietnam War.

Join CJ, John, & Mike as they discuss John’s experiences in Vietnam and reflections on them, as well as the making of the film and the takeaways to be gleaned from it.

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February 12

Bonus Ep. #24: Guns & Gunmen of the Not-So-Civil War, Part 2

Just published: The 24th Supporters-Only bonus DHP episode, “Guns & Gunmen of the Not-So-Civil War, Part 2.” (Almost 2 & 1/2 hours long!)

In this bonus episode, CJ talks in-depth about Civil War sharpshooters, their methods & hardware, as well as some of the other specialized weapons & tactics from the war. (In part 1 of this bonus mini-series, we covered the more standard weapons & tactics of the war.)

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November 27

Ep. 0191: Aftershock: The Human Toll of War w/Mark Jacob

In this episode, CJ talks with Mark Jacob, one of the three co-authors of the recently published book Aftershock: The Human Toll of War (published by CityFiles Press).

This book presents an extensive collection of photos from the last year of World War II (many of which have never been seen before by the public) taken by US military photographers, scanned from the original negatives to give amazing picture quality, providing a unique, unfiltered, and often disturbing glimpse of what the latter phases of the largest total war in human history actually looked like. In many cases the authors have been able to research the backstories of the photos, and have provided descriptive captions that add detail and further humanize the stories told by the images.

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Aftershock: The Human Toll of War: Haunting World War II Images by America’s Soldier Photographers

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May 21

Ep. 0182: Cathal Nolan on the Allure of Battle

In this DHP episode, CJ talks with Cathal J. Nolan, associate professor of history at Boston University and author of the book The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost.

Join CJ & Professor Nolan as they discuss:

  • How leaders & nations are often seduced by ‘the allure of battle’ and a ‘short war delusion’
  • The ways in which much existing historiography on warfare since ancient times have contributed to the glorification of the ideas of decisive battle and military genius, and how The Allure of Battle challenges these tendencies
  • How wars are actually won most of the time — namely, through things like logistics, attrition and endurance over relatively long time spans — in contrast to the concept of decisive battle
  • Some historical examples of alleged military geniuses who succumbed to the allure of battle, including the Duke of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, Napoleon Bonaparte, and the various German leaders of the late-nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century
  • Some of the ways in which warfare has changed (and, perhaps more importantly, not changed) since the Second World War
  • Whether or not world leaders have learned any of the important lessons about the dangers of falling for the allure of battle and the short war delusion

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