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Neocons believe that the US should forcefully promote its values around the world. Today we take a look at some papers published in the late 90s and early 2000s that spell out their foreign policy goals. Spoiler Alert… they are weird…..ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistory#112 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the India/Pakistan dispute over Kashmir the most dangerous conflict in the world? Well, you can make a strong case for it since both nations are armed with nuclear warheads. Today we go over the history of the Indo-Pakistani conflict and what led to the tensions over Kashmir.ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistoryEpisode #110 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pickup trucks aren’t just useful for moving, they’re GREAT for desert warfare. The Toyota Hilux is durable, cheap and very easy to mount a gun on. It’s no wonder they have been the preferred vehicle in conflicts ranging from the Chadian–Libyan conflict to the Syrian Civil War. Today we examine how militias are turning trucks into modern-day chariots and ask the question, how are extremist getting their hands on them?ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistoryEpisode #107 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During WW1, the British and French made a secret deal to split up the Ottoman Empire’s Middle Eastern territories. They did this by drawing a diagonal line on a map that ran from the Mediterranean Sea to the Mountains in Persia. This secret deal is called the Sykes-Picot Agreement. Today, we explore this history and geopolitical realities that led up to this deal.ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistory#106 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norman Ohler joins to discuss the rampant drug use in Nazi Germany. NORMAN OHLER is an award-winning German novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He spent five years researching Blitzed in numerous archives in Germany and the United States and spoke to eye-witnesses, military historians, and doctors. He is also the author of the novels Die Quotenmaschine (the world’s first hypertext novel), Mitte and Stadt des Goldes (translated into English as Ponte City). He was co-writer of the script for Wim Wenders’ film Palermo Shooting. Originally Published on 10/17/2018ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.Support us on Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/brohistory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danny Sjursen comes on to discuss the “Deal of the Century” and the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century.ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill this feedback survey out. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.Support us on Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/brohistory.#103  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Nuclear” is a pretty scary word and people are more interested than ever since The Chernobyl Podcast was released. The word conjures up images of mushroom clouds, 1950s PSAs and Terminator movies. However, there is a huge difference between nuclear energy (civilian) and nuclear weapons (military) programs. Today we go over the difference, along with how much weapons-relevant work can be done in a “civilian” program.ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill out this feedback survey. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistory#99. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Horton joins today’s show to discuss the JCPOA and the Iranian nuclear program. This week, Iran began enriching uranium to more than 3.67% purity. They surpassed the limits set by the Iran deal that the Trump administration pulled out of. A number of news outlets have said that Iran could be 6 months away from building a nuclear weapon. Does that sound familiar?ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill out this feedback survey. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistoryScott Horton is the author of Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, managing director of the Libertarian Institute at LibertarianInstitute.org, editorial director of Antiwar.com, and host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 in Riverside, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from this website. In 2007, Scott Horton won the Austin Chronicle‘s “Best of Austin” award for his Iraq war coverage on Antiwar Radio. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003.Scotts Book: Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan: https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Errand-T…#98 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know it would take at least five Sherman tanks to neutralize a German Panzer during WWII? That meant a lot of US tank operators died. Today we go over why the US adopted a strategy of tank rushing the Germans, the best WWII tanks and some of the weirder experimental weapons that were never used, such as the Bat Bomb. ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill out this feedback survey. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.https://www.patreon.com/brohistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Japanese Empire is back and getting ready to annex Manchukuo... Well not really. But they sure as hell are a bigger military powerful right now than most people think. On this episode we go over the current strength of the Japanese military.ATTENTION - Help your brothers out and fill out this feedback survey. You can win a $500 Amazon gift card. Who wouldn't like that?www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave.SUPPORT US ON PATREON – https://www.patreon.com/brohistory#88 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices