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The Conflict and Culture Podcast

by David Borys

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The dramatic arrest of Nicolás Maduro on January 3 2026, seized by U.S. forces in Caracas and brought to New York to face narcotics and narco-terrorism charges, has shocked the hemisphere and intensified debate over U.S.–Latin America…
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S1E6 Media, Memory and the War in Iraq

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S1E5 The Apache Way of War

November 11, 2025 · 52 min

The Apache are a collection of Southern-Athabaskan speaking Indigenous peoples who historically inhabited what is now the American southwest and Mexico. They are popularly known for their historical resistance to US expansion as well as…
S1E4 The Good Allies: Canada and the USA in WW2 - Rest in Peace Tim Cook

October 28, 2025 · 43 min

On October 26th news broke of the passing of Canadian historian Tim Cook. Tim was a leading voice in the field of Canadian military history and the chief historian and director of research at the Canadian War museum. He is someone I…
S1E3 The Sacred Band of Thebes

October 14, 2025 · 34 min

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite military unit of 300 highly trained heavy infantry soldiers (hoplites), famously composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. Formed in the 4th century BCE the Thebans, who came from a uniquely gay-tolerant…
S1E2 Comic Books and the Second World War

September 30, 2025 · 49 min

Illustration has been an integral part of human history. Particularly before the advent of media such as photography, film, television, and now the Internet, illustrations in all their variety had been the primary visual way to convey…
S1E1 The Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht

September 16, 2025 · 59 min

The myth of the "clean Wehrmacht" was the false belief that the regular German armed forces were not involved in Nazi war crimes or the Holocaust, but were instead a professional, apolitical body separate from the Nazi regime. This myth…
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About the show

Historian David Borys interviews the experts on a wide array of topics exploring everything and anything to do with military history beyond the battlefield! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.