Odin & Aesop

About Odin & Aesop

Interested in military history?  Please join Join Bill Redman and Tony Faust two retired Marines as they review military history books and provide a unique look at how the book’s contents relate to current trends in military operations.  Each episode provides a detailed book discussion along with some recommendations for related reading on the topic.”

Publisher

Bill Redman & Tony Faust

Category

arts · education · history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jan 2021

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 71 episodes have a transcript.

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   11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bay of Pigs

   Host Peter Wyden explores Fidel Castro's rise to power and the subsequent U.S. efforts to overthrow him in this interview.

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   11 Sept 2026

   Midway

   By the middle of 1942 Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought a reckoning with the United States Navy. The Japanese wanted to neutralize the United States Navy and consolidate their early gains. Yamamoto’s plan was to draw the United States Navy’s aircraft carriers into a decisive battle by threatening the island of Midway 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii. The United States Navy took the bait. It took the bait armed with intelligence of the Japanese plan. Mark St...

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   11 Aug 2026

   Ghost Wars

   This Pulitzer Prize winning book traces the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) involvement in Afghanistan. Starting in 1979, it explains how the CIA funneled arms to the Afghan mujahideen through Pakistan’s intelligence service in conjunction with money from Saudi Arabia. Next, it provides the details and complexities of how the CIA subsequently attempted to confront the rise in radical Islamic militancy, Osama bin Laden and Al-Queda, and the Taliban. Steve Coll tells the s...

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Bay of Pigs

Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Others stayed behind in Cuba. Plus, the United States still had business interest in Cuba. How would the U.S.-Cuba relationship play out with a revolutionary like Fidel Castro ruling Cuba and a superpower like the United States just over the horizon? Initially, Castro framed himself as a democratic nationalist. He even visited the United States, he spoke at the Council of Foreign Relations, and he met with Vice President Nixon. But then things started to shift the United States' perception of Fidel Castro. In 1959, Castro broke up big landed estates directly targeting properties owned by American sugar syndicates. […]

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