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In the podcast the politics of the situation was often a neglected part of any strategic game. Even in WW2 the politics between the US and the UK as allies and the even the interpersonal politics of the commanders is often overlooked. I have some personal connections with overlooked conflicts. Three great uncles were at Gallipoli and a grandfather who was on Moubatten's staff for the later part of the Burma campaign. My grandfather was also in the British WW2 'intervention' in Greece where he helped to organise the evacuation. The podcast with Simon Bolivar is: Revolutions (iTunes) by Mike Duncan - there are other revolutions covered. The Phillipines conflict with the US against the insurgents was brutal. The Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine–American_War#Atrocities) has more on this than the relatively staid "Lessons from a Successful Counterinsurgency: The Philippines, 1899-1902" (PDF ). Movie/War Trivia. The thesis that Colonel Kurtz wrote in "Apocalypse Now: Directors Cut", in the file being read by Captain Willard on the riverine boat, was on the US counter insurgency in the Phillipines. This thesis may have lead to Kurtz's methods becoming "unsound". My vote for the most unrepresented conflict related to WW2 Japan USSR - the 2 battles of Khalkhin Gol - there was a game on the battle in a monthly magazine in the time of but not "Strategy and Tactics".