Stephen Platt, professor of Chinese history at UMass Amherst and author of The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II, joins the show to discuss the incredible life of Evans Carlson.

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    •      01:48 Introduction

    •      02:50 American quirk

    •      08:14 China 

    •      10:18 Soviet policy 

    •      14:01 Nicaragua       

    •      16:29 Edgar Snow     

    •      21:11 FDR

    •      24:42 8th Route Army 

    •      31:52 Embargo   

    •      38:30 Raiders

    •      42:40 Makin Island

    •      46:30 Force multiplier    

    •      52:44 1946

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