Category: America: Secret Wars

004: Tongo Tongo – Corruption and Occupation in Niger

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A C-17 taking off from Base Aerienne 201 via Wikimedia
Location of Tongo Tongo via Google Earth

Trevor is joined by Bry Jensen of Pontifacts (@pontifactspod) to discuss the worst American military defeat in Africa of the last 30 years, The Tongo Tongo Ambush, and the rampant mismanagement that made it possible.
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Mark – Inside The Botched Raid That Left Four US Soldiers Dead In Niger
Penney – Drones in the Sahara
Turse – Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa
Turse – U.S. Secret Wars In Africa Rage On…
Turse – The U.S. Is Building A Drone Base In Niger…
Turse – Less Than A Mile From Drone Base…
Savage, Schmitt, and Gibbsons-Neff  – U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight…
ABC – US intelligence officials examining video of Nigerien militant group
BBC – Troops put down Niger mutiny
BBC – Military coup ousts Niger president Mamadou Tandja
BBC – Deadly US decisions before Niger ambush
CBS – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discloses details about Niger ambush
Chason and Birnbaum – US struggles for influence in West Africa as military juntas rise

Cole – Russia’s New Military Alliance Encroaching on US Sphere of Influence
Coon – Rifle fire strikes U.S. C-130 during airdrop over Mali
DoD Press Briefing on the results of the Investigation into the October 4, 2017, Ambush in Niger
Everstine – Inspector General Blasts USAF…
Fuglestad – A History of Niger 1850-1960
GlobalSecurity – Operation Enduring Freedom-Trans Sahara (OEF-TS) Operation Juniper Shield
IRIN – NIGER: State of alert threatens independent media – RSF
Reuters – Factbox: Who is Niger’s Mamadou Tandja?
CW: Military combat, death, IS propaganda music Sgt. Johnson Helmet Cam Footage

04: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 2

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

03: Trieste, a hot start to the Cold War, Part 1

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Postage stamp from Trieste Zone B shortly after the official end of Yugoslav occupation

Trevor is joined by Roberto Toro and Brendan Foster (@foster_writing) of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) podcasts to discuss the post war occupation of Trieste and how tensions with Yugoslavia almost started World War III less than a year after World War II.
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Goldstein – Trieste, October 1945 to January 1947
Jenning – Flashpoint Trieste: The First Battle of the Cold War
Allock – Border and Territorial Disputes
Rogers Churchill and Slany – Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Eastern Europe…
Winston Churchill – “Iron Curtain” Speech
Dinardo – Glimpse of an Old World Order? Reconsidering the Trieste Crisis of 1945
Morrison – Eastern Europe and the West
NYT – Attack on U.S. Airplane; Patterson says shooting down of Americans was ‘Wicked’ and…
NYT – Text of 2 U.s. Notes Answer Yugoslavia; His Plane Downed
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 23 August 1946

02: America’s Very First War, Part 2

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Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For part 2, Trevor is joined by Asha (@Herbo_Anarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast (@SwordsNSocPod) to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country

001: America’s Very First War, Part 1

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Map of Georgia, its rivers, and its major cities with the Oconee River Basin highlighted (L) Map of the Oconee Basin with greater detail to show local creeks (R).
Map of the Oconee River Basin. Created by Anna Baynes (UGA River Basin Center)

For the very first episode, Trevor is joined by Asha (@Herbo_Anarchist) of the “Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism” podcast (@SwordsNSocPod) to explain Secret Wars and discuss the first ever war fought by the United States’ armed forces after gaining independence: a border dispute between Georgia and the Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy from 1785-1790.
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Saunt – A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Scurry – The Oconee War Parts 1-3
Smith – History of the Georgia Militia, 1783-1861
Chappell – Georgia History Stories
Coulter – Elijah Clarke’s Foreign Intrigues and the “Trans-Oconee Republic”
Haynes – Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796
Kokomoor – Let Us Try to Make Each Other Happy, and Not Wretched”: the Creek-Georgian Frontier
Kokomoor – Creeks, Federalists, and the Idea of Coexistence in the Early Republic
Scurry – A Considerable Tract of Country

Welcome to America: Secret Wars

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The United States has more than its fair share of famous wars in history, but that doesn’t even scratch the surface. Have you ever wondered why we don’t talk about the Korean War or the War of 1812 very often? Do you even know the names of the wars fought against Native American nations? What about the battle with Japan during the Civil War? In this podcast, Trevor Culley will sit down with friends and guests to discuss all of the American military history that’s been forgotten, overlooked, or even covered up to explore lost stories from American history.

Reveille Variation (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_United_States_Army_Old_Guard_Fife_and_Drum_Corps/Celebrating_50_Years/09_1434/) and Soldiers Farewell Fanfare (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_United_States_Army_Old_Guard_Fife_and_Drum_Corps/Celebrating_50_Years/07_1250/) by The United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps under Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) via FreeMusicArchive.com