[LINK] Guest: Aditya Velivelli

"China and India have been trading hot words and menacing editorials this summer over a border dispute in Bhutan, where both Chinese and Indian forces have crossed borders and made threats. The roots of this go back to the little-known 1962 Sino-India War, which ended in humiliating defeat for Nehru. Fellow war nerd Aditya Velivelli, originally from Hyderabad, walks us through events in the 1950s between India and China, and the disastrous finalé in the 1962 war, which was fought on two vastly different border fronts: In India's far northeast frontier border with Tibet, and in the disputed Kashmir region in India's far northwest, in the Aksai Chin plateau."

[LINK] Guest: Kayleigh Long, journalist.

"The War Nerd digs into the grim history and politics of Mynamar with local journalist Kayleigh Long, to try to make better sense of the Rohingya crisis. The story we're being told is that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi isn't the peaceful Buddhist that the West made her out to be, and the Rohingya mass expulsions suddenly just happened without context. We look into the brutal British legacy in Burma (Myanmar), the history of ethnic tensions in the part of the Empire where today Rakhine death squads are expelling Rohingya, the mirror Chittagong Hills Tract conflict story ignored by our media, and the CIA-backed Chinese Nationalist KMT army that spent years in northeast Burma running a heroin narco-state."