The Martial Brain
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
The Martial Brain Podcast explores the intersection between the martial arts, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and that wacky organ that floats between our ears. It is part of Jeff Westfall's effort to help lift the martial arts out of the quagmire of hundreds of years of magical thinking and misconception.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
Description:
The Martial Brain Podcast explores the intersection between the martial arts, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and that wacky organ that floats between our ears. It is part of Jeff Westfall's effort to help lift the martial arts out of the quagmire of hundreds of years of magical thinking and misconception.
Language:
English
Episodes
235 The Forgotten War Part 24
5/18/2023
Remember the words of Voltaire who said "anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities."
Duration:00:12:05
234 The Forgotten War Part 23
5/10/2023
The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.
Duration:00:09:46
The Forgotten War Part 22
4/28/2023
The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism .
Duration:00:10:37
The Forgotten War Part 21
12/22/2022
The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.
Duration:00:15:21
The Forgotten War Part 20
12/13/2022
"I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!"
Duration:00:11:17
The Forgotten War Part 19
11/28/2022
On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."
Duration:00:11:15
The Forgotten War Part 18
9/25/2021
The very idea of arming Filipinos and turning them loose in the countryside was utterly abhorrent to the American military brass.
Duration:00:16:55
228 The Forgotten War Part 17
4/27/2021
"These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!"
Duration:00:18:04
227 The Forgotten War Part 16
3/9/2021
I hold Waller's actions in Samar as reprehensible, as egregious abuses of his constitutional privileges as a a military commander.
Duration:00:13:17
226 The Forgotten War Part 15
2/24/2021
In the meantime, General Smith's combined Brigade was following his orders to turn Samar into a "howling wilderness."
Duration:00:17:58
225 The Forgotten War Part 14
10/29/2020
As the now infamous town of Balangiga burned behind him, Capt. Bookmiller famously quoted the book of Hosea: "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind!"
Duration:00:17:16
224 The Forgotten War Part 13
9/17/2020
No matter what you call it, the event at Balangiga was the worst defeat of American troops since the Battle of the Little Big Horn!
Duration:00:17:25
223 The Forgotten War Part 12
9/1/2020
Funston, four other Americans, and a renegade Spaniard would pose as POWs in the "custody" of a group of Macabebe Scouts in captured Insurrecto uniforms.
Duration:00:15:14
222 The Forgotten War Part 11
8/25/2020
"To see nine men, the officers in their drawers and the privates naked, cross such a stream by such means, and drive off an entrenched force not less than ten times their number, in broad daylight, where their number must soon become known, is something not soon to be forgotten!"
Duration:00:15:23
221 The Forgotten War Part 10
8/12/2020
I find the story of David Fagen fascinating. We seldom rationally depict such figures in history.
Duration:00:17:05
220 The Forgotten War Part 9
7/21/2020
The leaders of the Philippine independence movement had tremendous admiration for the American founding fathers and the government they wrought!
Duration:00:17:27
219 The Forgotten War Part 8
6/16/2020
The depth and breadth, the sheer comprehensiveness of Filipino martial technology stands as a shining example, a tribute to defiance in the face of tyranny and oppression!
Duration:00:17:01
218 The Forgotten War Part 7
5/19/2020
But it turns out that the Filipino people didn't WANT themselves and their property to be the property of the United States!
Duration:00:17:34
217 The Forgotten War Part 6
5/1/2020
On June 12, 1898, the Filipino rebels officially declared independence from Spain, in a document that, ironically, in light of what was to come, drew elements from the American Declaration of Independence.
Duration:00:16:16
216 The Forgotten War Part 5
4/24/2020
Pershing was an instructor at West Point when the war broke out, and quickly sought to rejoin his old unit, the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry.
Duration:00:15:40