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War Stories

Adin Dobkin

War Stories is a narrative show that takes the broad arcs of warfare and shares the stories behind crucial points their development. In each season, the show revolves around a single topic a...

War Stories Podcast Guide

Listen to War Stories, a Society & Culture podcast by Adin Dobkin. Stream 36 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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A Most Unlikely Race

Hey listeners, did you know we're not just trying and failing to come up with new podcast ideas every week? Staffer and Adin have been away...

01:07:24Jun 23, 2021

The 82nd's Almost Mission to Rome

There were a lot of crazy ideas in World War II. But possibly none more than dropping the 82nd Airborne Division on Rome in order to seize i...

22:40Nov 12, 2020

Bats! The Musical

Nearly every one of our episodes focused on humans' interactions with a particular type of inanimate object on the battlefield, sometimes th...

58:39May 21, 2020

Loose Rounds #9 - AUSA Live Show

To wrap up the season of Loose Rounds, Adin and Angry Staff Officer ventured to Washington, DC and the Association of the United States Army...

34:44Dec 3, 2018

Loose Rounds #8 - Wheels

What's the simplest item that's changed the shape of warfare? The bullet? The boot? How about the humble wheel? In this episode of Loose Rou...

33:26Sep 17, 2018

Loose Rounds #7 - Ship Design

For nearly as long as people have been fighting, they've had ships to take them to the fight, or to use as weapons of war themselves. From t...

40:37Aug 21, 2018

Loose Rounds #6 - Cartography

Before compasses, sextants, and the telescope, there was the map. They were simple things to begin with. Then they became essential, allowin...

32:21Jul 16, 2018

Loose Rounds #5 - Field Rations

Members of the military oftentimes talk about how little they need to get by. Without the creature comforts the everyday person may come to...

34:36Jun 18, 2018

Loose Rounds #4 - Communications

Until someone invents a solution to time travel, distance on the battlefield will define how wars are fought. Communications have attempted...

35:35May 18, 2018

Loose Rounds #3 - Logistics

Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Right? In the third episode of the series, Adin and Staffer discuss the incorporation o...

39:58Apr 16, 2018

2.9 - The Once and Future Sniper

What's the quality that defines a sniper? Is it the pulling of the trigger? The skilled stalking of their target in the hours or days prior...

34:28Apr 9, 2018

Loose Rounds #2 - Blood Transfusions

For something so central to our lives, the role of blood wasn't something we could explain for much of our history. We knew it was important...

35:40Mar 19, 2018

2.8 - The White Feather

In the Vietnam War, snipers returned to some of their earliest environmental roots while simultaneously reaching the pinnacle of their devel...

33:55Mar 5, 2018

Loose Rounds #1 - Mortars

In our first episode of Loose Rounds, a mini-series produced in partnership with Nammo, we discuss the humble mortar. You know, the tubes th...

38:25Feb 19, 2018

Loose Rounds Trailer

On War Stories, we often focus on what's happening at the proverbial tip of the spear: the latest and greatest, at least for the time, weapo...

05:28Feb 12, 2018

2.7 - A Soviet Sniper's American Journey

By the time Lyudmila Pavlichenko joined the rest of her peers at the International Student Assembly at American University in Washington, DC...

36:30Feb 5, 2018

2.6 - The White Death

When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in late 1939—the action that kicked off the Winter War—they expected an easy fight, if there was one a...

40:00Jan 8, 2018

2.5 - A Duel in the Trenches

We know World War I for a number of things: trenches, poison gas, the ever-present thrum of artillery. But it also served as the birthplace...

38:14Dec 4, 2017

2.4 - The Fighters of the Black Snake's Den

On a scraggly hill in Pennsylvania, a unit of sharpshooters took part in some of the most fierce, if not frequently discussed, fighting of G...

36:19Oct 31, 2017

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