THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY
It’s March 2012 in a region of Afghanistan known as the birthplace of the Taliban. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales leaves his base–in the dead of the night–and lays siege to two villages, killing a reported sixteen innocent Afghan civilians. The reaction from the American government is swift and severe; provoking universal condemnation and a life sentence in Fort Leavenworth military prison.
Over a decade later, the lingering question about what became known as the Kandahar Massacre remains. Why did it happen? Anchored by 18 hours of exclusive interviews from America’s most notorious war criminal and complemented by a chorus of people central to this polarizing case, THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY is a 12-episode investigative podcast that will shed new light on the inner sanctum of the military. Throughout, the series will contain explosive revelations that run the gamut, from brain injuries, to potentially toxic drugs, to possible cover-ups by the nation Robert Bales swore to protect.
© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc. · more info
Artwork and data is from the podcast’s open RSS feed; we link directly to audio · Read our DMCA procedureiHeartPodcasts
See more
This podcast may use tracking and attribution and dynamic content insertion
Stats: Statistics are produced by Omny Studio to help THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY to understand how many downloads it is getting, or how many people are listening. Your device’s IP address and user agent is used to help calculate this figure. Omny Studio is IAB v2 certified. Here is more detail about podcast statistics.
Tracking and attribution: Omny Studio or its partners may connect the fact you listened to this podcast to an action elsewhere on the internet. For example - it may spot a device that downloaded an episode of THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY later visited the website of an advertiser; or it may track that a device that listened to THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY also listened to a different show. This form of attribution is used to measure advertising effectiveness.
Dynamic content insertion: Omny Studio may use limited data that they know about you - the device you’re using, the approximate location you’re in, or other data that can be derived from this, like the current weather forecast for your area - to change parts of the audio. THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY may do this for advertising or for other forms of content, like news stories.
THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY is able to use the above tools since its podcast host or measurement company offers this service. It doesn’t mean that this individual podcast uses them, or has access to this functionality. We use open data.
Listen and follow
Apple PodcastsInformation for podcasters
- Podcast GUID:
e88cd3e7-d850-5bcb-905d-14e672edffd0 - This podcast appears to be missing from Truefans and Luminary. We list all the podcast directories to be in.
- Validate this podcast’s RSS feed with Livewire, Truefans or CastFeedValidator