
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.
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Latest episodes

Jun 26, 2025 • 10min
*PREVIEW* The Slow Death of the Armenian Quarter
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Jun 23, 2025 • 1h 28min
Episode 368 - The Order: Part 3
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Jun 18, 2025 • 11min
*PREVIEW* The Raid on IJmuden
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Jun 16, 2025 • 1h 29min
Episode 367 - The Order: Part 2
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Jun 11, 2025 • 11min
*PREVIEW* The Blue House Raid
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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-Hee. They got... closer than you might think.
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Jun 9, 2025 • 1h 28min
Episode 366 - The Order: Part 1
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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.
Sources: The Order: Inside America’s Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt The Long History of White Nationalism in America by George Hawley https://lithub.com/the-long-history-of-white-nationalism-in-america/ The History of Tax Resistance: How Pocketbook Worries Became Ideological by Joseph Thorndike https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2024/01/22/the-history-of-tax-resistance-how-pocketbook-worries-became-ideological/ British Israelism: Critical Dictionary of Apocalytic and Millenarian Movements by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce https://www.cdamm.org/articles/british-israelism C-SPAN Cities Tour - Coeur d'Alene: Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLyDE0kDK-w The Rise and Fall of Aryan Nations: A RESOURCE MOBILIZATION PERSPECTIVE by Robert W. Balch https://www.jstor.org/stable/45294187 The Order - Rise of the Far Right: Robert J Mathews by ABC Broadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2rfOGNwIU&t=172s

Jun 4, 2025 • 11min
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 16: Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
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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 school, is somehow able to outsmart every single adult in this show. To include entire military organizations and spy agencies?

Jun 2, 2025 • 1h 9min
Episode 365 - The War of the Oaken Bucket
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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.
Sources used:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/war-of-the-bucket
https://www.historynet.com/what-we-learned-from-the-battle-of-zappolino-1325/
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/10/18/beyond-the-pail-the-unbelievable-war-for-the-oaken-bucket-2/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/bloodiest-medieval-war-fought-bucket.html
http://www.zappolino.it/battaglia.htm

May 29, 2025 • 10min
*PREVIEW* History of Armenia 40: Armenicum, the Fake HIV Drug Invented By Armenia
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May 25, 2025 • 1h 16min
Episode 364 - The Pastry War
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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 their commander wanted to look at feet? In this episode (the first one where Nate has researched, written, and hosted), we get to the bottom of the semi-apocryphal Pastry War.
Sources:
Atwater, James D.; Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. "Out from Under: Benito Juárez and the Struggle for Mexican Independence." Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1969.
Muñoz, Rafael Felipe. "Santa Anna, el dictador resplandeciente." Fondo de Cultura Económica: Mexico, 1982.
Penot, Jacques. "L'expansion commerciale française au Mexique et les causes du conflit franco-mexicain de 1838-1839." Bulletin Hispanique 75-1-2, 1973. pp. 169-201
Toussaint, Éric. "Le système dette : Histoire des dettes souveraines et de leur répudiation." Les Liens qui libèrent: Paris, 2017.