Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict. Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Episodes
July 28, 2025 • 50 mins
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July 23, 2025 • 10 mins
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July 21, 2025 • 54 mins
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In this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era wher...
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July 16, 2025 • 10 mins
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July 13, 2025 • 56 mins
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Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss the time that Alexander the Great altered the geography of the planet in order to build a huge land bridge and punish Tyre for not letting him visit the ancient world's most instagrammable temple.
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sources:
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July 9, 2025 • 11 mins
In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Human Terrain System, or what you might politely call "military anthropology." Is it ethical? No. Did it work? No. Was it run by someone named Dr. Montgomery McFate? Yes.
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July 6, 2025 • 71 mins
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The British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle.
Sources:
CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWII
Quentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witn...
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July 2, 2025 • 9 mins
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June 30, 2025 • 89 mins
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The conclusion to our series on The Order
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June 26, 2025 • 9 mins
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June 23, 2025 • 88 mins
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June 18, 2025 • 11 mins
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June 16, 2025 • 88 mins
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June 11, 2025 • 10 mins
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For this week's bonus, we're discussing the late-'60s insurgency in South Korea, back at a time when the DMZ was more of a concept than an actual barrier, and the North Korean military trained an elite commando unit to sneak across the border in 1968 with a mission to kill South Korean president Park Chung-He...
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June 9, 2025 • 88 mins
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Tom takes us on a journey exploring the origins and crimes of The Order, an American Neo Nazi terror group led by a dork ass loser and adult convert to Mormonism.
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June 4, 2025 • 10 mins
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Freed from the oppressive yoke of G Gundam, we venture into a different OVA series where Gundam is actually... good? We watched Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, a show about the horrors of war seen through the eyes of a child who, while not exactly bright or good at s...
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June 2, 2025 • 68 mins
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In which the casus belli of two 14th-century Italian city states going to war was, in popular consciousness at least, the theft of a town's wooden bucket. Some Germans get involved as well.
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May 29, 2025 • 9 mins
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May 25, 2025 • 76 mins
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A conflict breaks out between a newly independent Mexico and a newly back-to-having-kings France. It culminates in a small series of armed incursions and blockades in 1838-39. Did it start because of an aggrieved French baker? Did Napoleon’s armies advance the science of military optics because the...
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May 21, 2025 • 10 mins
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