Radio War Nerd EP174—War of the Triple Alliance

Guest: Thomas Whigham, author & professor Recorded: March 22, 2019 Also known as the "Paraguayan War"—the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1860s was the bloodiest war in South America, and ended with the near total-extermination of Paraguay's adult male population. It remains an all too obscure war, one that this show has discussed in the past and that the War Nerd has written about. This episode, we're joined by one of the very few English-language historians of that war, Thomas Whigham, who wrote a fantastic two-volume history of the war that we discuss in this episode. At 1:47:30 the Nerd and Ames discuss Washington's official support of Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights . . . UAE despot proposed to Pompeo assassinating Taliban peace negotiators . . . more Pentagon corruption, even in their war games . . . Buy Thomas Whigham's books — "The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct" and "The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay Versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70" .