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dot UK slash ad free podcasts to catch up on the latest episodes without the ads. It is September, October, 1914, and the Auster Hungarian Empire is product of mixed nationalities,

so many that there's one or two or five of everything in each regiment.

Nick very carefully explicates that this is a hybrid army.

Goes up against the Russians in a place called Galicia which we now think of as the

bloodlands between Russia and Western Europe. This is part, Poland, part Ukraine,

it's all mixed up, but at the time it was called Galicia.

And the two armies clash in Galicia, and the Austrian Empire, right away a man in a man named Conrad Conrad von Hutsendorf is in charge of the

Austria-Hungarian empire. What do we need to know about him Nick?

Conrad is a man who obviously runs the Austro-Hungarian army and has pressed

for war multiple numerous times before the war.

He wants to fight Serbia.

He wants to reassert Austrian predominance in the Balkans.

Only an aggressive stance can drag the empire back to its predominant position.

But Conrad is, you know, he is a dreamer in some respects and he doesn't

understand or he doesn't recognize the limitations of the army.

And so a comrade is always dreaming of these grand offenses.

And in some cases, many of these offenses

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