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
377 episodes transcribedNapoleon's famed Grande Armee finally begins its march towards war. Almost immediately his soldiers begin starving to death and shooting themselves be...
Imaging being a North Korean conscript, thousands of miles away from home and watching your friends get gunned down by the guy from Drake and Josh. S...
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 ch...
Napoleon attempts to make friends, ends up making war instead. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on Twitter @l...
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. Sup...
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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 th...
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 ha...
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...
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 c...
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/lion...
Soviets launch unending frontal assaults against the Finnish Defenders. Little did the Soviets know that the Finns had a secret weapon: tens of thousa...
Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonke...
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....
A game of Lacrosse leads to the dumbest massacre in Michigan state history . Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some me...
The US dispatches some soldiers to fight Native Americans resulting in the biggest defeat in US Military history and the creation of American governme...
Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012. Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barrac...
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 in...
The American Philippines War begins in earnest. America sets up a series of concentration camps and attempts to brutalize the Philippine people into s...
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...
