Welcome to SNAFUBAR. We’re going to talk about military history, but focusing on mistakes and errors that were made, both strategic and moral. The name of the show stems from two acronyms that came out of military lingo, SNAFU standing for Situation normal: all F’d up and FUBAR standing for F’d up beyond all recognition. SNAFUBAR is a podcast about American military mishaps and about the myths that both lead to and then justify those mishaps. The histories we will look at will make clear the degree to which the U.S. is a warful nation, contrary to the myth of a peaceful nation regularly compelled, against its will, to go to war. And we will also clarify the degree to which we romanticize and fetishize the military while not really providing the support it needs to carry out its intended, or perhaps stated, goals, or to meet the veterans’ needs when they return from combat.

Join Sara Hart and Jeff Crane of Cal Poly Humboldt as they take a deep dive into United States military history.

SNAFUBAR is produced by Abigail Smithson

Research and writing by Liam Salcuni and Roman Sotomayor