Podcast episodes
Season 1
Ep 026 "Review and Discussion: Tattoo Zoo by Paul Avallone"
Every war has a seminal novel, a book that really resonates with generation that wrote it and the following generations from the Iliad to Gore Vidal's historical fiction to The Centurions by Jean Larteguy to From Here to Eternity by James Jones to this one.
Ep 025 "Technicals: Toyotas Go To War""
In the one year anniversary episode (!), we chat about the use of thin-skinned vehicles in the modern age and the asymmetric nature of the fight. The employment of commercially produced vehicles for conduct of raids and ambushes employing a wide array of weapons medium- to heavy-machine guns to mortars to ATGMs and everything in between. Please note that Toyota outside of Japan does not produce these for purpose-built military employment. And, to my fellow CruiserHeads, I salute you.
Ep 024 "The Other Fight: Understanding the Conventional Conflict""
Ep 023 "Afghanistan: The Soviet Debacle 1978-1989"
The defeat of the USSR in Afghanistan was part of a broad tapestry of disasters that eventually brought the Russian communist state crashing down. The shattering of Soviet forces by the indigenous rebels aided by foreign fighters and sophisticated weapons technology from the West doomed the USSR to failure. The American would later respond with: "Hold my beer..."
Ep 022 "Review and Discussion: Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On""