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You know, some guy running around with like stick stones and like, like machine gun can actually influence massive decisions that are made in White House or Brussels or wherever because, you know, these militias end up kind of being backed by a side here and there. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Matthew Gault. And I'm Jason Field. The world is full of wars both big and small.

With so much conflict and so much journalism focused on the home front,

war can slip through the cracks. Jake Hanrahan lives in those cracks and picks up those stories.

He's a journalist and a filmmaker from the UK.

His work has appeared on Frontline PBS and HBO.

He's also just launched a podcast called Popular Front.

It's a great show that focuses on the niche and geeky details of modern warfare.

If you want to know how suicide car bombs are built by ISIS or learn how the

learn about the Nazis fighting in Syria, the popular front is a show for you.

If you love war college, you'll love Popular Front. Jake, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks very much. Thanks, having me on again. So why did you start the show?

I think I kind of felt like there was a small community amongst people I speak to, you know, whilst researching and just talking nonsense on

Twitter about like various war topics.

And I felt like this community didn't really have kind of a podcast for it because it's really very niche, you know, like talking about this random militia here that nobody has heard of.

The kind of things you would never be able to actually get an article published on are actually some of the most

interesting things I think about modern warfare so I was like you know what let me just do this

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