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 transcribedJoin 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 m...
*******TRIGGER WARNING******** Everything. Seriously everything. It is terrible. On this episode Joe and Rich discuss one of the greatest crimes in...
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. S...
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...
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...
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 th...
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.hi...
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: htt...
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 willing...
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...
On this iteration of the Donkey Reading Series Joe is joined by our friendly neighborhood Nuclear Anthropologist Martin Pfeiffer (@NuclearAnthro) to d...
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 booz...
Tarrare and Charles Domery were soldiers who fought in the War of the First Coalition. They were also afflicted with a never ending, voracious hunger...
Project 100,000 was a Vietnam War Era experiment conducted by the United States to see how low they could lower the standards for enlistment or conscr...
This is the story of how Pepsi, yes that Pepsi, ended up controlling the world's sixth largest submarine navy. Support the show: https://www.patreon....
On the 7th (and final) installment in our Soviet Afghan series we take a look at what life was like as a Soviet conscript and just how miserable life...
On part 6 the Soviet Union has to figure out how to pull their army out of Afghanistan while the entire country collapses around them while new journa...
Babrak Karmal is a failure and the Soviets know he has to be replaced if they are ever going to get a functioning Afghan government. Enter Muhammed Na...
As the Soviets got bogged down in Afghanistan the United States and its allies are helping the Afghan rebels, but only with a little cash and small ar...
The Soviet Army digs in for the long haul while a Tajik warlord named Ahmed Shah Massoud makes them pay for every inch of land they take. Support the...
