The years immediately after 9/11 were a weird time. Every adult in the world went a little insane. The US and Putin's Russia were intelligence allies. Al-Qaeda really was inside Georgia - just not that one by Roberto of altogether too many projects to discuss the Pankisi Gorge Crisis, and how US training and advisors helped combat both fundamentalist insurgents and anti-corruption protestors. Roberto is the host of The History of Saqartvelo Georgia (@History_Georgia) and co-host of Tsar Power (@TsarPowerPod) and Quest for Power.

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Leupp - Georgia and the War on Terrorism

Manning - Folklore and Terror in Georgia’s ‘Notorious’ Pankisi Gorge

The AP - Green Berets Land in Georgia For 2-Year Training Program

Bush - Presidential Letter, September 19, 2003

Bush - Presidential Letter, March 20, 2004

Cecire - How extreme are the Extremists? Pankisi Gorge as a Case Study

Civil.ge - Timeline-2005

Filkins - U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia’s Islamic Fighters

GlobalSecurity.org - Georgia Train and Equip Program (GTEP)

Grennan - Georgia's Pankisi Gorge and the Global War Against Terrorism

McGregor - Ricin Fever: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Pankisi Gorge

Menabde - Pankisi Gorge: A Resurgent Flashpoint in Georgia?

Myers - World Briefing\Europe: Georgia: Region Under Control

Quinn-Judge - The Surprise In the Gorge

Traynor - Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror

USDoS - Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Georgia

Welt - Shaking up the System: Georgia and the War on Terror

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 5, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Pig War and the boundary disputes that gave us Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.

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Unfortunately, production on this series has been a nightmare and the full bibliography was lost in a technical error (not realizing my laptop had disconnected from wifi and stopped auto-saving). Here is an abbreviated version:

Coleman - The Pig War: The Most Perfect War in History

Shewmaker - Daniel Webster and the Oregon Question Available to Purchase

Polk - Inaugural Address

Polk - First Annual Message to Congress

Vancouver - A chart shewing part of the coast of N.W. America

Wilkes - Map of the Oregon Territory

Oregon Treaty, 1846

Treaty of Washington, 1871

America: Secret Wars is back with a five part series about the skirmishes between the US and Canada that almost led to a third war with the British Empire in the 1830s. In Part 4, Trevor is joined Bailey and Nic from Totalus Jeffianus (@jeffianus.bsky.social) to discuss the Creole Case, the struggle for emancipation in antebellum America, and how the slaver states wanted to use a war against British Canada to their own advantage.

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Douglass - The Heroic Slave

Home - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Jervey and Huber - The Creole Affair

Jones - The Influence of SLavery on the Webster-Ashburton Negotiations

Momodu - The Creole Case

National Archives - The Amistad Case

Rediker - The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Sorrell and Berry - This 1841 Rebellion at Sea Freed More Than 100 Enslaved People

US DOS - The Amistad Case, 1839

Webster-Ashburton Treaty