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
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Apr 15, 2019 • 46min
Episode 46 - Andersonville Prison
On this episode Joe and Nick celebrate Confederate History Month by diving into crimes perpetrated by the Confederate States of America at Andersonville Prison. A POW camp that killed 25% of POWs during the war.
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Sources:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison
https://allthatsinteresting.com/andersonville-prison
http://www.civilwarmed.org/andersonville-medicine/

Apr 8, 2019 • 1h 43min
Episode 45 - John Walker Lindh, The American Taliban
Joe and Nick talk about how a sickly kid who liked to pass his time trolling people on the internet ended up traveling across the world and joining the Taliban and his court case that followed.
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sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/my-letters-john-walker-lindh-american-jidahist/590071/
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/725865999/john-walker-lindh-the-american-taliban-set-to-be-released
https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-lawyer/articles/may-2005-taking-the-stand.cfm

Apr 1, 2019 • 59min
Episode 45 - The USS Pueblo Incident
Joe is joined by Justin Rose to talk about the USS Pueblo Incident. An American spy ship is Captured by North Korea and we do our best not to make any really easy Navy jokes.
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sources:
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/580076540/looking-at-the-saga-of-the-uss-pueblo-50-years-later
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/23/beaten-every-day-north-korea-tortured-uss-pueblo-crew-members-gathering-damaging-intel/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-uss-pueblo-pyongyang-north-korea

Mar 25, 2019 • 58min
Episode 44 - Gideon Pillow Ft. Matt Palmquist
Joe is joined by the purveyor of @civilwarhumor Matt Palmquist to talk about Gideon Pillow. A General who spent his entire life proving the fact that you may be terrible at your job, steal a cannon, and never learn how to read a map but if your best friend is the President you can do whatever you want.
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Mar 18, 2019 • 1h 9min
Episode 43 - The Kargil War
On this episode Joe and Travis talk about the Kargil War of 1999. You may have never heard of it but it involves nukes, ice fortresses, World War One style frontal assaults up a mountain, and ice axe murder.
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Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090327120658/http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/war_in_kargil.pdf
Amarinder Singh (2001). A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/k/Kargil_War.htm

Mar 11, 2019 • 47min
Episode 42 - The White Rose
On this episode Joe and Rich talk about one of the most badass groups of people to ever walk the earth: The White Rose. A non violent anti-war activism group that operated in Nazi Germany.
A little warning: We had some recording issues during this episode. Our producer did what he could to save it.
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Sources:
https://whiteroseinternational.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxtSSBhDYARIsAEn0thQiOTzyupQmYz5YP4A4FZ4XZPnZ5gb-bS7VzwKURKisxhRAcVz24g4aAsMjEALw_wcB
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/white-rose
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sophie-scholl-and-white-rose

Mar 4, 2019 • 1h 25min
Episode 41 - Donkey Reading Series: Why Arabs Lose Wars By Norvell B. De Atkine
On this episode Joe and Travis read the famous history article "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by former US Naval Institute professor Norvell B. De Atkine and discover what happens when someone so racist they could have worked for the East India Trading Company ends up having an impact in American Foreign Policy.
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Feb 25, 2019 • 57min
Episode 40 - The Assholes of Holocaust Denial
On this episode Nick and Joe dive into the insane world of Holocaust Denial and why these people shouldn't be debated, they should be attacked.
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Sources:
Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917150/

Feb 18, 2019 • 53min
Episode 39 - Yemeni Civil War Part 3: Erik Prince's Mercenary Army and the SEAL Death Squad
On our final episode of the Yemeni Civil War series the UAE decides they need to buy an army to go with all of their mercenary commanders, and they look no further than Blackwater founder Erik Prince. All while a Mossad agent teams up with the former head of Palestinian Security to put together a death squad made up of former and current US Navy SEALs to assassinate the UAE's political opponents in Aden.
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Feb 11, 2019 • 54min
Episode 38 - Yemeni Civil War Part 2: His Excellency General Steve
On this episode Joe and Travis talk about how a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel who once ran a breast enhancement pyramid pill scheme out of his garage became an Officer for the UAE and commit massive war crimes against the Yemeni people.
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