Hell on Earth - Appendix 4: WAR (feat. John Dolan)

Great ep but Jesus Christ is matt's mic a relic from the time period they're talking about or what. it sounds like he's recording the podcast over a damn payphone. War nerd rules, obviously

Good brain haver

Bring him back to do his book on how the reformation affected poetry

(American spirit menthol

War Nerd beats all.

Ellen Harold

This was awesome

Bill Crotts

Age of Napoleon is excellent if the period interests you.

I listen to the podcast American Prestige." I highly recommend them. They often cover not just American history and current events they cover the East and South America as well.

Shar

all of the Radio War Nerd episodes with guest Carl Zha are strongly recommended

Karl Childers

Anyone have any recommendations for other history podcasts? I’m looking for something similar to this, a deep dive on a specific era of a region. I’ve been dying to find one that covers East and southeast asia

Christian Petee

thanks!

jick

https://www.kanopy.com/en/lapl/video/11259090

Shauna Seroquel

900kg shots?!

Breakaway

i keep trying to find it someone hmu with profession of arms stream or dl link

jick

A fucking masterpiece. Where can I get the extended version???

Logan Gee

The Nerd is excellent. Great episode.

David Andrews

You should check out the US’s 1856 Guano Islands Act, which has never been repealed.

Ty Drown

John is my all time favorite guest. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 ep

Finn

fuck the hell on earth theme bangs so hard.

walker maddalozzo

I haven’t been able to find one with subtitles. Apparently the Italian script is directly based on original historic documents in very elaborate, formal, diplomatic language. Very hard to comprehend much less render in passable English subtitles. There is a sad attempt by a hapless volunteer on YouTube premium. Not satisfactory

Ellen Harold

That one is already posted

THEKILLERWHALE

So on the last question - there are quite a few major wars in East Asia involving the major powers in late 16th - early 17th century - the biggest ones being the Toyotomi Japan’s invasion of Chōson Korea (1592-1598) and the great Ming-Qing transition (1618- 1644, 1683). The Ming-Qing transition actually fits almost perfectly into the Thirty Years War timeframe. So in a very abstract way - Ming China was heavily gunpowder-based army, with some European designs being adopted with connection to the Portuguese. Although the distribution of gunpowder weapon was somewhat uneven among the massive empire. The “Southern Army” responsible for fighting off the Japanese pirates (Waku) was heavily armed with matchlocks and cannons while the “Northern Army” guarding the nomadic frontier was more cavalry and archer-based. There wasn’t really any meaningful technological difference outside notable exception of cannon. The Dutch/Portugese-made “Red-Barbarian Cannon” was a massive hit in Ming, with larger caliber and higher accuracy of the cannon impressing the Ming government. It was heavily deployed starting around 1620s and was one of the most feared weapon against the nomadic Jurchen (later Qing) army. The Jesuit missionaries employed by the Ming and later Qing court were asked to contribute in weapons manufacturing. On Japanese side, Japan effectively had *the* pike and shot army of East Asia. After the introduction of Portuguese musket to the warring Sengoku era in 1543, musket was widely adopted. When Japanese Daimyos invaded Korea in 1592, the not-really-professional Chōson army was quickly routed. Pike formation was effective in countering Chōson and Ming cavalry. Notably though, Japanese did not adopt cannon in their army and navy - which didn’t help them much when they faced Chōson navy heavily armed with cannons. Hope this helps Chris!

Grimmer

You made me a new subscriber for Radio War Nerd, esp with a forthcoming Sy Hersh appearance. I'm digging in.

Rohmer Simpson

Periodization: always a contentious topic. But necessary, historians say. 800 sounds good to me.

Ellen Harold

Annibale is a pseudonym. Not the guy's real name.

Alexander

I have never heard of 800 as start of Middle Ages. There is overlap with all eras and they are human constructions of course. I wonder what War Nerd’s thoughts on Late Antiquity are; if he thinks crowning Charlemagne is end of Late Antiquity in Western Europe (Arab conquests are usually considered end of Late Antiquity in eastern Mediterranean). Beginning and ending of Middle Ages I find very interesting. Some push beginning as far back as death of Julian in 363 or even to Edict of Milan. English historiography places end at Battle of Bosworth Field. There are many little events that pile up. Diaz rounding Cape of Good Hope in 1488 seems a significant event.

erik w bjorke

I agree bigly

John Grater

John rules. Excellent ep gentleman

John Grater

Steppebrother what are you doing?

skrrt vonnegut

This guy Fuchs.

Thankyou For Reading Out My Name In This Accent

I love you John

Jason Weiser

I’ve just been catching up on all the Annibale episodes on the War Nerd podcast. Great stuff. Hadn’t never heard of the Ustica event before. Just when did Italians start naming their kids after Hannibal? I’ve heard it in Spanish names too.

Ivan Lopez

the war nerd/annibale series on the Hundred Years’ War is a must listen for Hell on Earth fans. In particular the Joan D’Arc episode - the gal is the answer to the question “what if Lenin was a medieval peasant girl”

T

The war Nerd’s series on the Italian Wars is fantastic

Nixper

chris I am unable to fathom how you spend 15 minutes on Bryan Quinby presents: Classic Rock Guys talking about the radio/podcast categories at the Grammys and not realize that Hell on Earth is your perfect grammy laureate moonshot

etienne

Chris 100% created this series just so that he could welcome guests “to Hell on Earth.”

Pedro Lippe

How did you say Magyar and Hungary so much without dunking on dreher. Steeled resolve.

safetyconesavior

schiller was a classicist and not a romanticist and we do like to talk about those. also no one draws a connection between schiller and german nationalism ... thats mostly reserved for fichte, hegel to an extend and the later romanticists who were all about midevalism, folklore and the coherence of a national culture ... and thats basically the generation that fought against napoleon and influemced a student movement that adopted the nationalistic ethos of the post-revolutionary french army while being influenced by prussian militarism, that traditionalistic romaticism ... very similar to american reactionary youth in many respects actually. sort of a libertarian pathos and youthful comradery merging with a militarized, reactionary state ... and theres *some* elements of romanticism involved but yeah that connection gets exagurated its true.

Alexander Fuchs

Stavros go on war nerd

(American spirit menthol

Crossover of the century

Jesse DeStasio

Peter Bruegel's Dull Gret... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dull_Gret

Michael Polacheck

Good video on longbows vs muskets: https://youtu.be/-uRDFhLZhDQ

Jim Chapman

I second John’s recommendation about The Profession of Arms. Typically it is hard to find, but it’s currently streaming on Kanopy.

Broadway Joe

Ermanno Olmi shout out on Chapo Trap House. signs and wonders.

Rohmer Simpson

The rake gun sounds like the spread fire power up in NES contra

NYCM&AHole

Back in the 1940s there was apparently some rock in the middle of the pacific that the japanese imperial navy guarded because all the seagull shit on its surface was a decent source of phosphorus.

Doug Cartel

Wooo the 2 patreons i support collab again! Numba 1 Chapo guest. Stavie is a close 2nd. Wish they had both on more :P

HollaHollaHolla!

The War Nerd FINALLY!

Shauna Seroquel

Hell yes

Mike Loudin

Et filii

Herschell Gordon Lightfoot

Primae

Kin