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
September 3, 2025 • 10 mins
In 1942 the US Pacific campaign wound up creating the circumstances for a tank engagement on a tiny atoll in the middle of the ocean. It was the origin of the expression 'the two-thousand yard stare,' a battle that probably didn't need to happen but still wound up happening, and it involved a lot of carnage amid exactly zero shade. So, of course we were going to talk about it.
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September 1, 2025 • 79 mins
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The Holy League is formed to fight off the Ottomans, resulting in a lot of guys catching flintlocks to the face, a pirate double cross, and spies in blackface.
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August 28, 2025 • 10 mins
For this month's History of Armenia, Joe and Ani discuss the history of the most decorated Armenian-American military veteran in US history: a midwest Armenian-American named Victor Maghakian who was, without exaggeration, an absolute beast during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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August 25, 2025 • 77 mins
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August 21, 2025 • 10 mins
For this month's LLBR, Joe and Tom reconvene to discuss episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion ("The Beast"). It's an episode that speaks to our respective early-teen years of listening to terrible music on headphones and being depressed. Some of us have not stopped doing this and that's okay too.
Cover art by Unzealous
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August 18, 2025 • 55 mins
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The conclusion to our series on the English Peasants' Revolt
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August 13, 2025 • 10 mins
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August 11, 2025 • 64 mins
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August 6, 2025 • 10 mins
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August 4, 2025 • 69 mins
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July 28, 2025 • 50 mins
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It is never a...
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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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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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