In this installment we cover the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan up until the end of the 2009 troop surge.

The Saga of World War 2 is a sister podcast to Casus Belli and the first few episodes will be available on the Casus Belli feed before I move it over to its own independent podcast. When did World War II begin exactly? Did it begin on December 7th, 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor? For America sure, but it’s not called a World War for nothing. So did it begin in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and prompted France and the United Kingdom to go to war? Many people count this date as the “official” start of the second world war but simply jumping in then wouldn’t make for a very complete podcast. So we have to go back even further. Before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, before Japan conquered Manchuria, all the way back to the ending of the First World War.

In this Episode of Casus Belli we examine the history of Afghanistan from the founding of Zoroastrianism to the third Anglo-Afghan War.

In part one of Graveyard of Empires we will discuss the current situation in Afghanistan and some of the problems inherent in the American War there.

The first of episode of Casus Belli. Detailing the events that have led to the current South China Sea dispute we discuss how we have arrived in our current state and what might be done to alleviate it.