One of the persistent themes of Angry Planet has been that smaller countries in the spheres of influence of great powers have far greater control over their destinies than it would appear. If the recent fighting in the Middle East has taught us anything, it’s that local partners have plans of their own and it’s impossible for a patron to have complete control over what happens on the ground.
On this episode of Angry Planet, Barbara Elias of Bowdoin College comes on to make the case for retiring the term ‘proxy war.’ It’s a wide ranging conversation that covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Vietnam. Tune in for a worthwhile discussion of geopolitical semantics and stick around for a wild story of million dollar goats in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s Failed Goat Farm Is the Perfect American Disaster
Local Partners Are Not Proxies: The Case for Rethinking Proxy War
Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars
Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Libya Is the Future of War
Eating at KFC in Kurdistan
America’s Foreign Policy Has a Cold War Hangover
ICYMI: How the Allies Trolled Hitler With Magick
Bellingcat Talks Tankers, Deepfakes, and State Propaganda
Iran and America’s Complicated Recent History
War Robots, AI Targeting in Megacities, and Other Things We Learned From the US Army
Navy Pilots Keep Seeing UFOs Because They're Real
America Once Planned to Nuke the Moon
ICYMI: Why QANON Matters And Why It Won't Go Away
America's War In Somalia Is Heating Up Again
Japan's Surprisingly Large Military
Romanticizing History Can Be Worse Than Repeating It
Can Psychonauts Win America’s Wars?
How A Legendary Black Samurai Became an Anti-Imperialist Icon
ICYMI: Inside the Occult Neo-Nazis Killing People in America
The History of Preparing for Nuclear War
The Era of Shitposting White Nationalist Terrorism
The War In America's Backyard
Everything You Know about Putin (and Russia) Is Wrong
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free