Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
Lions Led By Donkeys
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:
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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
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Mar 10, 2024 • 11min
*Preview* Operation Flipper
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Joe, tom, and Nate talk about the time British Commandos attempted to kill Erwin Rommel. It did not go great.

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 10min
Episode 301 - The Boxer Rebellion Part 1: Unbeatable Army of Ultra Nerds
The Imperial powers of Europe and Japan humiliate China until they create an uprising of magical martial artists who are terrified of period blood.
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Sources:
David Silby. The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game in China
Diana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic History of China’s War Against Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Henry Keown-Boyd. The Fists of Righteous Harmony
Joseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 31min
Episode 300 - Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Part 2
The conclusion to the story of a boy and his Chindits.
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SOURCES:
John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacy
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadership
David Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.

Feb 25, 2024 • 10min
*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots Presents: Pacific Rim
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Feb 24, 2024 • 1min
INVISIBLE WAR is Now Available!
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Their minds stolen. Uploaded into war-machines. They fight a secret war to preserve humanity.
What if there was a war raging for one million years, but it was kept secret? It's a question Sargis never considered, born as an upper middle class man living in Prime City during a so-called “Millenia of Peace.”
As far as he, or anyone else knows, humanity has no army, no weapons, and no wars.
The people of Earth have been expanding into the stars for as long as anyone remembers, free of conflict while the Techno King and his Royal Cabal enrich themselves on the backs of their labor. All was as it always has been.
Then, Sargis dies.
Unbeknownst to him, an app he used every single day of his life hijacks his consciousness and uploads it into a synthetic engine of war known as a sleeve. Along with countless others, he has been conscripted into the Undying Legion, charged with fighting a secret, unending war in the name of humanity.

Feb 20, 2024 • 10min
*PREVIEW* Himmler Was A Weird Little Freak (Live In London)
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Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 34min
Episode 299 - Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Part 1
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Orde Wingate was an insane person who thought exercise would cure malaria, wore a necklace of raw onions and garlic, and carried an alarm clock that would go off at random times like he was the Mad Hatter. He was also a commander of one of the most famous British military units during the Second World War.
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SOURCES:
John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacy
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadership
David Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.

Feb 12, 2024 • 59min
Episode 298 - The Insane Corruption of the Union Army During the US Civil War
Union soldiers may have marched off to fight for the right side of the war but that didn't mean that every contractor and General in the north wasn't going to try to steal something from the military along the way.
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SOURCES:
https://www.americanheritage.com/lincolns-corrupt-war-department
Micheal Thomas Smith. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol 3, no. 1. Pp. 137-139
Tim Koenig. The Days of Shoddy: Wost Manufacturers of the Civil War. Civil War Quarterly. Vol. 3. no. 2.

Feb 7, 2024 • 10min
*PREVIEW* Sharpes Sword
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Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 25min
Episode 297 - The History of Fragging and the Case of Alberto Martinez
Joe and Nate explore the history of Fragging in the US military and the case of Alberto Martinez, a soldier who almost certainly killed two officers during the Iraq War and got away with it.
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Sources:
George LePre. Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2017/01/27/alberto-martinez-acquitted-killing-local/22538316007/
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21frag.html
https://journalnow.com/witness-soldier-changed-before-fatal-iraq-blast/article_95ae16fb-b3e6-51b8-b445-d609e6d77e94.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.html


