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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Sources: 

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.

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

Episode 294 - The Satsuma Rebellion Part 1: Dutch Kabuki

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The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.

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https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/

Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527

Episode 309 - The 1527 Sack of Rome

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Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.

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 https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moor

Peter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish Tragedy

Ida Taylor. The Life of James IV

William Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4

Episode 308 - The Battle of Flodden Field

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In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.

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https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/

https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/

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chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures

Episode 307 - Task Force Smith

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Episode 294 - The Satsuma Rebellion Part 1: Dutch Kabuki

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