On part 2 we talk about the terrible life and times of a soldier in the 1800s. 25 year conscription, disease, banditry, and good old government ran child abduction. Now shut up and die for your Emperor. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on Twitter @lions_by Join the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LionsLedByDonkeys/
Napoleon attempts to make friends, ends up making war instead. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Source for all related episodes: Adam Zamoyski. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
On this episode Joe and Rich talk about some more war animals like Sarbi, the Australian wonder dog and Unsinkable Sam, the unkillable navy cat. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/creator-home Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/memorial-boxes/2/case-studies/sarbi https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/unsinkable-sam-cat-wwii/
Sources: https://nationalpost.com/tag/kevin-patrick-dawes/ https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/syria-isis-kevin-dawes
The British Free Corps was an armed formation made of up brits and dominion soldiers who volunteered to fight for the Nazis during WWII. But rather than a legion of King loving nazis, they ended up being incompetent, insane, and in one case the best military grifter of all time. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for this episode: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-british-free-corps https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/the-british-soldiers-w...
Imaging doing a favor for a friend that ended up with you spending over a year in a combat zone without a single day of training. Paul Mahar didn't have to imagine. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/incredible-story-man-fought-vietnam-best-friends-place http://wolfhoundpack.org/Wolfhound-Tales/Paul-Mahar https://lmtribune.com/man-who-served-in-vietnam-in-friend-s-place-is/article_a7f5626b-4fb5-53de-a824-0ea77f5a774b.html https://peopl...
Joe is joined by Francis Horton from the Hell of a Way to Die Podcast to talk about the greatest self own in American Military history: MC02 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/millenium-challenge-2002-stacked-deck https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
On the finale of the Winter War the Mannerheim Line begins to crumble and Finland is only saved due the connections of a Government Minister's booty call. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some stuff: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us @lions_by
One of the deadliest men who has ever walked the earth probably was too short to ride a rollercoaster. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Soviets launch unending frontal assaults against the Finnish Defenders. Little did the Soviets know that the Finns had a secret weapon: tens of thousands of empty booze bottles and balls of steel. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Grab a T Shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us: @lions_by
Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store?page=1 follow us on twitter: @lions_by
On part one of our Winter War series we dive into the history of Finland and its long struggle for independence from a string of different oppressors. **Correction** The Commander of Finnish forces was named Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. There was no "Von" honorific. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Bibliography for all related episodes: Trotter, William. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-1940....
A game of Lacrosse leads to the dumbest massacre in Michigan state history . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us @lions_by Sources: https://mynorth.com/2010/05/deadly-lacrosse-game-in-mackinac-straits-at-fort-michilimackinac-in-1763/ https://www.mackinacparks.com/books-publications/attack-at-michilimackinac/ https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2015/10/11/pontiacs-rebellion-at-fort-michilimackinac...
The US dispatches some soldiers to fight Native Americans resulting in the biggest defeat in US Military history and the creation of American government as we know it today. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Grab some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us @lions_by Sources: https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/St._Clair%27s_Defeat https://www.lawfareblog.com/remembering-st-clairs-defeat http://touringohio.com/northwest/mercer/ft-recovery/f...
Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012. Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth at the order the President Donald J Trump on November 15, 2019. This is the story of the war crime he committed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer https://www.armytimes.com/...
At the conclusion of our series on the Philippines American War we dive into the Moro Rebellion and American war crimes so prolific they are turned into things of legend in the modern day. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/creator-home Support Brandon Lee: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-brandon-lee Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Buy our stuff on Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store
The American Philippines War begins in earnest. America sets up a series of concentration camps and attempts to brutalize the Philippine people into submission. Enter the Machete of Freedom. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @lions_by
On this episode we dive into America's first overseas war of Empire and how two racists from Nebraska started a war. **Corrections** Andres Bonifacio did not receive an education in spain and was not summerly executed. He was tried for a plot to overthrow the government and executed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us @lions_by Sources: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/06/102497181.pdf https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990801.2.1...
Join Joe and Nick as they dive into one of the worst military defeats in history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @lions_by Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-726367 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/teutoburg/teutoburg.html 36/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-empire-greatest-de...
*******TRIGGER WARNING******** Everything. Seriously everything. It is terrible. On this episode Joe and Rich discuss one of the greatest crimes in human history: Japan's answer to Nazi Germany's terrifying medical experiments. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitter @lions_by Sources: Felton, Mark. The Devil's Doctors: Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners of War. Harris, Sheldon. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare and the American ...
Joe is joined by the co host of the What a Hell of a Way to Die Podcast Francis Horton to discuss the worst training exercise in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/creator-home Follow the What a Hell of a Way to Die Podcast: @hellofaway Sources: https://www.history.com/news/d-days-deadly-dress-rehearsal https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/exercise-tiger.html https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-...
A very hungover Joe and Nick dive into one of the Union Army's biggest blunders during the US Civil War: The Battle of the Crater during the siege of Petersburg. Two drunken commanders throw their soldiers into battle without a plan or orders. Hilarity does not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy some merch: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/crater https://www.history.com/this-day-i...
Robert Bales was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army. He is also one of the worst war criminals in recent American history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.gq.com/story/robert-bales-interview-afghanistan-massacre https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/06/26/soldier-convicted-of-massacring-16-afghans-seeks-new-civilian-trial-citing-a-psychosis-inducing-anti-malarial-drug/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/19/army-soldier-wife-lau...
The Anglo Zulu War Part 2. In the conclusion of our series the war goes from Rourke's Drift to Eshowe before killing an Imperial Prince and burning the Zulu Kingdom to the ground. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys (For sources see the show notes of Part 1)
Sources for all related episodes: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/zulu-war https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/anglo-zulu-wars-1879-1896 https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-battle-of-isandlwana-and-the-anglo-zulu-war-of-1879 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24453317
On episode 69 (nice)Joe and Rich dive into the history of Meth in warfare. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @lions_by sources: https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/ https://newrepublic.com/article/141125/third-reich-addicted-drugs https://thesecuritydistillery.org/all-articles/pervitin-how-drugs-transformed-warfare-in-1939-45
On this episode Joe and Nick dive into the troubled and misunderstood history of the Kamikaze. Were they really so devoted to the Emperor they willingly blew themselves up or were they scared and abused kids who were peer pressured into becoming suicide bombers? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: Wings of Defeat (2007) Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Kamikaze Dairies: Reflections of Japanese Student Sold...
On this episode we examine the birth of the M-16 Rifle and its deployment to the Vietnam War. How did the Pentagon take a rifle that passed every test with flying colors and turn it into a piece of shit that undoubtably killed hundreds of American soldiers? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for this episode: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-agai...
On this iteration of the Donkey Reading Series Joe is joined by our friendly neighborhood Nuclear Anthropologist Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) to discuss the War on the Rocks article "America Needs A dead Hand". The article: https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/america-needs-a-dead-hand/ Support the show and get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store
Joseph Dresnok was a Private in the US Army stationed along the Korean DMZ. He quickly became depressed and developed one hell of an addiction to booze and sex workers. After getting in trouble one too many times and fearing he would get a courts martial, he took off running across the DMZ towards North Korea. Support the show and get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: "Crossing the Line" BBC 4 ht...
