The Unknown Soldiers Podcast

The United States has decided to civilize the people of the Philippines, but the Filipinos beg to differ. The campaigns of 1899 will show war in all its glory and all its ugliness. It's time to bring freedom to the Philippines...whether they want it or not. Map of the Campaigns of 1899: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/episode-38-the-philippine-war-part-2-shock-and-awe-maps Sources: htt...

The United States Army and Marine Corps were in a transitional period during the Philippine-American War. They had strengths and weaknesses on many different levels, but at the end of the day they were an imperial army...and they did what imperial armies do. Check out my maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-37-the-philippine-war-part-i-american-empire-...

The United States has won the Spanish-American War, and finds itself in control of the Philippine Islands. The Filipinos think they're being liberated, but the Yankees have other ideas. Will America stay true to its values, or succumb to the temptation of empire? Map of the Philippines in 1898: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-37-the-philippine-war-part-...

A brief introduction to the upcoming Philippine-American War series, debuting October 31. Don't know your McKinleys from your McDoubles? Find the answers here! Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast https://twitter.com/unksoldierspod

In today's Unfiltered Soldiers, it's time to crack open some more myths...this time about the American Civil War. The turning points of the war, slavery, guerrilla warfare, Grant and Lee...all sorts of fun stuff! And what was the Civil War even about? (Slavery. 100%. Let's get that one out of the way.) Check the website: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.co...

The American Civil War was not just North versus South. In modern day Oklahoma, the American Indians of the Indian Territory find themselves caught in the middle and have to pick a side. Their internal civil wars are no less fierce than the big one. You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Maps and Sources; https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/episode-36-between-blue-...

In 1932, Australia had an emu problem. They decided to solve it with soldiers and machine guns. They lost. That's it. That's the summary. Check the website: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast https://twitter.com/unksoldierspod

The story of Australia in World War II is one of a country finding its identity, and the keystone of this story is the Kokoda Track Campaign of 1942. The Australian militia that battled the Japanese in the jungles of New Guinea would ascend into legend. Maps & Sources: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-35-the-legend-of-kokoda-maps-and-sources Social M...

In 1878, after 36 years of peace between their countries, the British Empire invaded Afghanistan once again. Some people never learn. The Second Anglo-Afghan War would shake the Empire...and the Afghans...to their foundations. Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast https://twitter.com/unksoldierspod Music: Jalandhar Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Comm...

Coming September 5 - SEASON 2 of the Unknown Soldiers Podcast! Premiering with Episode #34, "Return to the Graveyard of Empires". Check the website: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast https://twitter.com/unksoldierspod

A surprise Special Edition episode from the Unknown Soldiers Podcast! Military logistics is one of the least sexy but most important aspects of warfare. This episode contains four case studies: Xerxes in Greece, Sherman in Georgia, Hitler in Russia, Eisenhower in France...that lay out the challenges imposed by the Iron Hand of Logistics. Sources: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown...

First in the Unknown Soldiers Podcast's interview series, we have Mr. David Townsend, author of "My Road to Mandalay: Compiled from his Father's Letters." David's father fought in the Burma Campaign of World War II, and his letters were only found years later. David tells us about his discovery of the side of his father that he never knew: one more of history's Unknown Soldiers. Amazon link to My...

In the early months of the American Civil War, the Confederacy launched an invasion of New Mexico to achieve their dream of empire. This forgotten campaign culminated in a small but important battle at Glorieta Pass - the Gettysburg of the West. Sources, Images, Maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-32-gettysburg-of-the-west-maps-images-and-sources Soci...

The soldiers of the Crimean War had pretty miserable diets and a strong desire for all kinds of alcohol. If you are what you eat, the Crimean War's soldiers were salt beef, biscuit, and liquor - though that, like everything else, was about to change. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my...

Russian imperialism, and its opponents, are often forgotten. Throughout the early 19th Century, Russia fought to subdue the mountain tribes of Chechnya and Dagestan and the Muslim guerrilla leader Imam Shamil. Who will become Lord of the Caucasus? Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my inf...

The last stages of the Crimean War saw some of its fiercest combat in the Allied assaults on Sevastopol. What the nations of Europe learned in the trenches would change how they viewed each other - and how they viewed themselves. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info? Here are my sou...

In 1855, a woman of color arrived on the Crimea to do her part for the British war effort. Mary Seacole, a mixed-race Creole widow, would be one of the great British heroines of the Crimea, a light driving back the melting dark. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info? Here are my sour...

A young Russian army officer arrived in Sevastopol in December 1854, and he was transformed by his experience in the Crimean War. Let's take a look at the Siege of Sevastopol with our tour guide, Ensign Leo Tolstoy. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info? Here are my sources: https://...

The winter of 1854-1855 would test every army on the Crimea to their limits. Only the intervention of heroes and heroines from across the class system would bring their armies through the darkness - and into the light of the first mass media war. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info...

Four armies are locked on a desperate, bitter struggle around the fortress city of Sevastopol, the key to the Crimea. But in the valleys of Balaclava and the fog of Inkerman, it is the soldiers, not the generals, who decide the fate of empires. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info?...

The armies of the Crimean War were a product of their histories, their societies, and their cultures. They reflected the nations that deployed them. When they finally collide on the Alma River, their strengths...and weaknesses...will be revealed. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info...

A brief introduction to the Crimean War series and Europe in the 19th Century. Need some context before we get into the story? Don't know your Prussias from your Russias? Find the answers here! Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info? Here are my sources: https://www.unknownsoldierspod...

Welcome to the Victorian Age, the 19th Century. The decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe, has caused an international crisis. Ambition, fear, escalation and miscalculation will pull Europe into the first modern conflict. Check out my hand-drawn maps: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/post/unknown-soldiers-podcast-episode-27-31-crimean-war-maps Where did I get my info? Here ar...

In today's Unfiltered Soldiers, it's time to take a look at the First World War beyond the mud and blood of trench warfare in France and Flanders. What was going on in Africa? China? The Middle East? The Balkans? Ukraine? Let's look at the Great War...beyond the Western Front. Check the website: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast h...

When World War I began, multiple German ships were in foreign waters. The story of the last German squadron at large, Admiral Von Spee's East Asia Squadron, is an epic drama on the high seas...but also shows how culture can change the tide of history. Maps, Images, Sources: https://www.unknownsoldierspodcast.com/ Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/unknownsoldierspodcast https://twitter.com/unk...