Union soldiers may have marched off to fight for the right side of the war but that didn't mean that every contractor and General in the north wasn't going to try to steal something from the military along the way.

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https://www.americanheritage.com/lincolns-corrupt-war-department

Micheal Thomas Smith. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol 3, no. 1. Pp. 137-139

Tim Koenig. The Days of Shoddy: Wost Manufacturers of the Civil War. Civil War Quarterly. Vol. 3. no. 2.

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Joe and Nate explore the history of Fragging in the US military and the case of Alberto Martinez, a soldier who almost certainly killed two officers during the Iraq War and got away with it.

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Sources:

George LePre. Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam

https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2017/01/27/alberto-martinez-acquitted-killing-local/22538316007/

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21frag.html

https://journalnow.com/witness-soldier-changed-before-fatal-iraq-blast/article_95ae16fb-b3e6-51b8-b445-d609e6d77e94.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.html

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Once upon a time the King of Portugal started a war that went so badly it collapsed his dynasty and killed three different kings all at once.

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https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/08/343746/why-the-battle-of-the-three-kings-lives-on-in-moroccan-memory

https://www.historynet.com/three-dead-kings-war-in-morocco/#:~:text=By%20midafternoon%20on%20Aug,and%20North%20Africa%20for%20decades.

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Medieval/BattleOfTheThreeKings

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The conclusion to the Satsuma Rebellion!

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Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan

William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration

James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877

Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai.

Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

The heroic story of how Samurai Warlord Saigo Takamori rose up against the changing of the times. But actually, it wasn't really about that at all.

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William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration

James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877

Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai.

Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-samurai-against-the-imperial-japanese-army/

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Once upon a time thousands of soviet soldiers were drafted into a film production. This is that film.

Joe and Nate talk about the time South Vietnam attempted to invade Laos. It did not go well.

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https://www.comanchero.org/LamSon719.html

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/invasion-02172021125804.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27016309

Robert Sander. The Invasion of Laos, 1971

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024288

https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-war

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/mauled-in-laos/

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-nightmare-mission-into-laos-operation-lam-son-719/