Radio War Nerd EP105—Duterte, Marawi & ISIS

Guest: Aaron James, SE Asia scholar An armed group affiliated with ISIS is still in control of Marawi, a city on the southern Philippines island of Mindao. It's a story that's received remarkably little coverage in the English-language press The War Nerd talks to fellow war nerd and Southeast Asia studies scholar Aaron James in Canberra to try to understand why IS fighters took Marawi and why they've managed to hold out — and to find out why Philippines president Duterte is so popular at home, and so hated in the West . . . Afterwards, the Nerd and Ames take a subscriber question, and review a few of the week's war stories . . .