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
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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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May 19, 2025 • 10 mins
We finally did it! Thank you for joining us on this very stupid journey.
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May 19, 2025 • 93 mins
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A Moluccan terror group took over a train in the Netherlands, leading to the longest train hijacking in history. It only ends when Dutch Commandos launch one of the worst rescue operations in European history.
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May 12, 2025 • 72 mins
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George Patton launches a very badly thought-out mission to rescue his son-in-law from a POW camp.
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May 7, 2025 • 10 mins
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May 5, 2025 • 77 mins
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Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly.
Sources:
N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions.
Edwyn G...
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April 28, 2025 • 98 mins
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The conclusion to the Armenian Genocide series.
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