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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.
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. The United States Army in the Korean War. Vol. 2. Center of Military History.The Korean War. The Battle on Pork Chop Hill. https://historynet.com/korean-war-battle-on-pork-chop-hill/https://warhistory.org/article/july-6-11-1953-the-battle-of-pork-chop-hill-hill-255https://web.archive.org/web/20061109043603/http://www.historynet.com/magazines/military_history/3034286.html
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Joe and Tom sit down to talk about the next 4 episodes of FMAB. It includes a heartbreaking funeral scene, a hypothetical Slovenian basketball player, getting abandoned on an island for a month, and the intricacies of dog medicine.If you want to hear the whole episode, it's available on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys/posts/lions-led-by-29-163262842BUY JOE'S BOOK!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSG5CNXXAND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BUY IT ON AMAZON, BUY IT STRAIGHT FROM US!https://lagunairepress.com/CHECK OUT NATE'S BAND'S ALBUM!https://secondhomesband.com/
SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysCheck out Failure to Launch:https://open.spotify.com/show/67k2E47btdeWWdljZAmf9AGET JOE'S BOOK:Ebook, Audiobook, and Paperbacks now available!https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/Or you can buy the ebook and audiobook directly from us:https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/Get Nate's band's debut album here!https://secondhomesband.com/Joe is joined by Chris and Quinn of Failure to Launch to talk about the first major battle of the First Crusades and how the Crusaders stumbled over their own feet to victorysources:Runciman, Steven (2005). The First Crusade. New York: Cambridge University PressHistoria HierosolymitanaJohn France, Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, 1996Richardson, Scott. Dorylaeum: The First Christian-Muslim Clash of the Crusades. military Heritage. December 2007. Vol 9. No 3.
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. The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press.https://web.archive.org/web/20051028021944/http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/castilon.htm
Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olseWebb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1
USE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR PATREON SUBSCRIPTIONhttps://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysLISTEN TO BLOOD WORK:https://open.spotify.com/show/5jt9RZSCVMJ1KS84QHB9jJBuy The Highlands Burn:https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXXGet the audiobook (read by Joe)https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobookDuring WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently.SOURCES:https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-islandhttps://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.htmlhttps://www.uswardogs.org/WWIIhttps://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-iihttps://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-dayhttps://www.nps.gov/articles/000/uncle-sam-needs-to-borrow-your-dog.htm
Joe, Tom, and Nate take to the stage at the Rich Mix in London to talk about the time the Republic of Texas attempted to invade Santa Fe, New Mexico without food, water, or even knowing where Santa Fe was on a map.Get the full episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/159999155USE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH SUBSCRIPTION THROUGHOUT JUNEGET JOE'S BOOK:https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/DON'T WANT TO USE AMAZON? NO PROBLEM:https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-epubhttps://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobook
P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacrehttps://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-americahttps://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/https://deerfieldraid1704.org/
sr=1-1Once upon a time the Russian Empire funded the construction of what might be the world's dumbest tank that is arguably not a tank at all. Larger than any of its peers during WWI, the Tsar Tank goes down in history due to its strange shape, weird wheels, and the fact that developers of the Battlefield video game series thought it was too unrealistic to put it in one of their games.SOURCES:Zaloga, Steven. Grandsen, James. Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two.Milsom, John. Russian Tanks, 1900-1970https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-tsar-tank-is-possibly-the-strangest-tank-ever-devisedhttps://www.rbth.com/defence/2014/09/29/the_first_russian_tanks_a_long_and_difficult_road_to_the_battlefield_40199.htmlhttps://www.thearmorylife.com/tsar-tank-russias-secret-wwi-weapon/http://www.landships.info/landships/tank_articles/Lebedenko.html
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Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945Leckie, Robert. The Battle for Iwo JimaKakehashi, Kumiko. So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo JimaWheeler, Richard. Iwo Jima.Tatum, Chuck. Red Blood, Black Sand: With John Basilone on Iwo Jima
Stephane Thion. Rocroi 1643: The Victory of Youth.Welsh, William. Spanish Disaster at Rocroi. Late Winter 2012. Vol 13, No. 4Jeremy Black, European Warfare, 1494-1660
sr=1-1SEE US LIVE MAY 29TH IN LONDON:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-tickets-1985443952308CANT MAKE THE SHOW? WE'RE STREAMING IT! GET YOUR LIVESTREAM TICKETS HERE:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-2026-tickets-1985444086710GET SECOND HOME'S DEBUT ALBUMhttps://secondhomes.bandcamp.com/album/find-a-way-to-hate-itOnce upon a time there was a supply convoy called PQ-17, loaded down with tons of supplies and heading to the Soviet Union. Over the course of several days the convoy was destroyed by a combination of terrible intelligence, fear of confrontation with the German Surface Fleet, and a commander with a brain tumor.SOURCES:Beesly, Patrick. Convoy PQ 17: A Study of Intelligence and Decision-MakingBunker, John. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of WWIIHague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation.Milton, Keith. Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster. Military Heritage. June 2001. Volume 2, no. 6Lippman, David. 'Convoy is to Scatter.' : Arctic Convoy Disaster. WWII History. Winter 2012. Volume 11, No. 1
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sr=8-1PRE ORDER SECOND HOME'S DEBUT ALBUM:https://secondhomes.bandcamp.com/album/find-a-way-to-hate-itLIVE SHOW TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-tickets-1985443952308LIVE STREAM TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-2026-tickets-1985444086710A half-blind Irish immigrant to the US freelance develops the first modern submarine with funds from the Fenian Brotherhood. This leads to a lot of arguments and a late-night submarine jacking.SOURCES:Davies, R. Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the SeaLyons, Chuck. The Holland Submarine. Military Heritage. August 2008. Vol 10, no. 1Devoy Tells Story of First Submarine: Holland Warship Purchased for Clan-na-Gael, The Original Owners, by Harry Cunningham”, The Gaelic American, New York, 09 July 1927https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1935/august/fenian-ramhttps://www.millrivertrail.com/learn/famous-stolen-submarinehttps://web.archive.org/web/20121021174106/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_19/holland2.htm
sr=1-1LIVE SHOW TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-tickets-1985443952308LIVE STREAM TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-29th-may-2026-tickets-1985444086710SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe Battle of Ramree Island has gone down in history for being known for one thing: a massive crocodile attack that apparently destroyed the Japanese as they attempted to retreat. But, what if we told you that that popular story was completely made up by one guy who wasn't even there at the time?Sources:Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest WarMcLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far.Wright, B. S. (1968). The Frogmen of BurmaPlatt, Steven. Man eating by Estuarine Crocodiles: the Ramree Island massacre revisitedLyons, Chuck. The Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island. WWII History. Vol. 25. No. 1Frazier, George. A Man's Worst Friend. The Boston Globe Archive. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/438950677/https://the-avocado.org/2019/03/02/things-that-are-not-the-horrors-of-ramree-island/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/crocodile-massacre-of-troops-debunked-as-wartime-myth-k6vxhdfsq
. The Journal of Glaciology.Lutz, Stephen. Project Habakkuk’s Iceberg Aircraft Carrier. WWII History. Vol 10, No. 8Hemming, Henry. Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy.Gold, L W. The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada. Cambridge, UKCross, L D. Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice.
FOR THE WHOLE EPISODE GO HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153325099Tom and Joe are joined by Lucy Valentine of the podcasts Boonta Vista and Savant Garde to talk about...whatever FLCL is. Is it about growing up? Puberty? Changing oneself for the better? Trauma? We have no idea but man is it fun.
Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2016/07/diving_the_worst_battleship_ev.htmlhttps://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/june/race-uss-oregonhttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uss-massachusetts-why-worst-us-navy-battleship-ever-210474https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-epic-journey-of-uss-oregon-during-the-spanish-american-war/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/26/117958746.pdfhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/08/24/105058393.pdfhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/16/120273752.pdfhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/12/02/104844371.pdf
Nate emerges from a vat of paprikas boykibble to take the reins and bring us the story of The Battle of Haçova, a decisive clash between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, the implications of the Hamburger Helper Mascot, and Smurf racism. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/152758527We still have merch available! Check it out here www.llbdpodcast.com/
SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:http://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysIn the aftermath of the Sand Creek Massacre, the traditional governance of the Cheyenne people fracture, the pro-peace chiefs lose power, and warrior societies promise revenge against the settlers and military for their crimes.A band of warriors trap a small patrol of American soldiers and frontiersmen leading to a plains siege that forces soldiers to eat raw horse meat and then get violently ill because they were eating raw horse meat. SOURCES:Norris, David. Desperate Last Stand At Beecher Island. Military Heritage. August 2012. Volume 14, No 2.Mort, Terry. Cheyenne Summer. The Battle of Beecher Island: A HistoryYenne, Bill. The Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American WestMonnett, John. The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867- 1869Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.https://the-past.com/feature/looking-death-in-the-face-the-battle-for-beecher-island-september-1868/
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysUS Forces lie to the people of the Great Plains, convince them they are under the protection of the US government for the purpose of negotiations and commit a crime so horrible that it forces congress to investigate.*correction. Several Medals of Honor have been revoked. Specifically in 1917. This had nothing to do with conduct but rather a changing of criteria of what was considered worthy of the medal.SOURCES:Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Fighting Cheyennes.Grinnell, George. Bent, George. The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Lifeways.Hatch, Thom (2004). Black Kettle: The Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War.Hoig, Stan (1977). The Sand Creek Massacre.Hoig, Stan (1980). The Peace Chiefs of the CheyenneBrown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American WestBensing, Tom. Silas Soule: A Short Eventful Life of Moral Courage.Report of the US Congress Joint Committee On The Conduct of the War. 1865. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABY3709.0003.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;cc=moa
. Journal of Modern African Studies. Reno, William (February 2003), Political Networks in a Failing State The Roots and Future of Violent Conflict in Sierra Leone
Longman History of Russia. Taylor and Francis, 2014.Gore, Terry. “Lake Peipus: Battle on the Ice.” Military Heritage 7, no. 1 (2005). https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/lake-peipus-battle-on-the-ice/.Hellie, Richard. “Alexander Nevskii's April 5, 1242 Battle on the Ice.” Russian History 33, no. 2/4 (2006): 283–87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24664445.Smith, Jerry C., and William L. Urban, eds. The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle: Transl. with an Hist. Introd., Maps and App. Indiana University Publications. Uralic and Altaic Series 128. Indiana Univ, 1977.
For this week's bonus, Joe, Nate and Tom hole up, safe and sound, behind sturdy city walls to tell the story of the fall of Constantinople and discuss Byzantine great replacement theory, doing nominative determinism on your fortress, and easy 5 Minute Hacks to reassign your attackers somewhere on the lahmacun-doner meat spectrum. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/150311739
tens of thousands of men, thousands of trucks, and hundreds of tanks are rushed to the frontline that only barely escapes spiraling into a much larger war...at least for a few years.Sources:Edward Drea. Nomohan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat, 1939.Edward Drea. Tradition and Circumstances: The Imperial Japanese Army's Tactical Response to Khalkhin Gol.Glenn Barnett. Russo-Japanese Clash at the Battle of Nomohan. WWII History. May 2005. 4#3Amnon Sella. Nomohan: Khalkin Gol: The Forgotten War. Journal of Contemporary History (1983) 18#4Anthony Beevor. The Second World War.Alexi Shishov. Russia and Japan. The history of military conflicts
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The second part oin our series about the rise and fall of the first Republic of Armenia in 1918-1920.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/149346184
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysIdi Amin comes to power in Uganda, a military strongman, he lets his military run wild across the nation in a nearly decade long reign of terror. Amin, however, is a drunken, paranoid, monster. He purges his military, worried that someone would depose him. He imagines invasions of the British, Americans, Tanzanians, and the Israelis massing on his border. Finally, he invades Tanzania, sparking the Kagera War.This is the story of the fall of Idi Amin.Part 1/4SOURCES:Tony Avrigan, Martha Honey. War in Uganda: The Legacy of Idi Amin.Ogenga Otunnu. Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Violence in Uganda, 1890-1979.Ogenga Otunnu. Politics and the Military in Uganda, 1890-1985.Yehudit Ronen. Libya's Intervention in Amin's Uganda: A Broken Spearhead.Tom Cooper. War and Insurgencies of Uganda. 1971-1994George Roberts. The Uganda-Tanzania War, The Fall of Idi Amin, and the Failure of African Diplomacy.Alicia Decker. In Idi Amin's Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in UgandaMark Leopold. Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil
SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe conclusion to our series on Lord Byron. Special thanks to Joel Butler for additional research in this episode.New sources in this episode:C.W. Crawley, The Question of Greek Independence: A Study of British Policy in the Near East, 1821-1833 (Cambridge, 1930),Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream (London, 2006), 425-428. W.H. Humphreys, W.H. Humphreys’ First “Journal of the Greek War of Independence” (July 1821-February 1822), Acta Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 11, ed. Sture Linnér (Stockholm, 1967), 23-24. H. Şükrü Ilıcak (ed.), “Those Infidel Greeks”: The Greek War of Independence Through Ottoman Archival Documents, 1 (Leiden, 2021), 1.
Littlefield, 2019.Rizzoli, G. B. “Byron’s Unacknowledged Armenian Grammar and a New Poem.” Keats-Shelley Journal 64 (2015): 43–71.
. Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and MilitiaTripodi, Paolo (2 August 1999). The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope.https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2013/07/05/news/somalia_anniversario_battaglia_check-point_pasta-62413996/https://brigatafolgore.net/en/2-july-1993-the-battle-of-the-check-point-pasta/https://www.ilfaroonline.it/2018/07/02/2-luglio-1993-attacco-mogadiscio-ceckpoint-pasta/228435/https://www.military.com/history/battle-of-checkpoint-pasta-italys-black-hawk-down-moment-somalia.html
, in: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS), version du 26.11.2009. Online: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/008905/2009-11-26/, consulté le 01.12.2025.
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USE CODE DEC25 FOR OUR HOLIDAY SALE. https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysA group of people, forced into one of the worst jobs in human history, decide to launch a suicidal revolt to destroy the tools of the Holocaust.Sources:Lawerence Langer. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human SpiritPrimo Levi. The Drowned and the Saved.Nathan Cohen. Diaries of the Sonderkommando - Confronting Fate and Reality.Tzipora Hager Halivni. Preparation for Revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Heroes and Martyrs.Filip Muller. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.Henryk Tauber. Deposition made on May 24, 1945. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers.https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau
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Altran, S. ‘Empirical Evidence for the Devoted Actor Model’, Current Anthropology, 57/S13 (2016), S204-S209.Unknown Artist. (c1604). The Somerset House Conference, 1604 (oil on canvas). London: National Portrait Gallery.
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysTowards the end of the Crimean War the Russians invade the Ottoman Empire, coming up against the Fortress City of Kars. Command of the Ottoman forces fall to an old drunk, British man who may or may not be the bastard child of Prince Edward, all of the Turkish officers under him are actually Hungarian, and one American catholic.Sources:Winifred Baumgart. The Crimean War: 1853-1856Raugh Harold. The Victorians at War: 1815-1914Humphrey Sandwith. The Siege of Kars 1856William Edward David Allen, Paul Muratoff. Caucasian Battlefields: The History of the Wars of the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921
It's the late 16th century and the Ottoman Empire is continuing to advance across the eastern Mediterranean. In Istanbul, the Ottomans have begun ratifying ambassadorships and trade deals with the English crown. And in the middle of this comes a crew of the most sunburned Barbary Pirates you've ever met, hell-bent on plundering any ship they can find before they high-tail it back to...England?Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143253364We have new merch available in our store! www.llbdpodcast.com
SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysEarly during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and every ARVN commander on the ground has to ask for permission to do any command position in a game of telephone that goes all of the way up to the President of South Vietnam.Sources:David Elliot. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire: American and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era.Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/educational-services/staff-rides/VSR/Ap-Bac-Vietnam/Material/Ap-Bac%20Preliminary%20Study%20Guide%20V1.0.pdfhttps://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/
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Sources:Graydon Tunstall. Written in Blood: The Battles For Fortress Przemysl in WWI.Dr. Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemsysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands.Christopher Miskimon. The Siege of Przemysl. Military Heritage. Jan 2016. Volume 17, No 4.
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.Sources:Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American CapitalismRandolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad.Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysLIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4THhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1532091008449CHECK OUT THE MERCH STORE:www.llbdpodcast.com/Check out TWOAPW: https://www.worstpossible.worldThe largest battle of the U.S. War of Independence took place in... Gibraltar? On the southern tip of Spain? The rock that the Brits care about a lot? And there weren't any Americans involved? Josh Boerman, friend of the show and host of The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast and Ill Conceived podcast, joins us for this strange transatlantic chapter of American history.Sources:Roy Adkins. Leslie Adkins. Gibralter: The Greatest Siege in British Historyhttps://www.historynet.com/rock-legend-gibraltar/https://www.thecollector.com/great-siege-gibraltar-us-revolution/https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/grand-assault-on-gibraltar/
In 1942 the US Pacific campaign wound up creating the circumstances for a tank engagement on a tiny atoll in the middle of the ocean. It was the origin of the expression 'the two-thousand yard stare,' a battle that probably didn't need to happen but still wound up happening, and it involved a lot of carnage amid exactly zero shade. So, of course we were going to talk about it.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/137945399LIVESTREAM TICKETS FOR OCT 4THhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1532091008449CHECK OUT THE MERCH STORE:www.llbdpodcast.com/
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For this month's History of Armenia, Joe and Ani discuss the history of the most decorated Armenian-American military veteran in US history: a midwest Armenian-American named Victor Maghakian who was, without exaggeration, an absolute beast during the Pacific campaign of World War II.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/137451794Livestream tickets for our October 4 show in Glasgow are still available! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1532091008449Our merch store is open! https://www.llbdpodcast.com
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For this month's LLBR, Joe and Tom reconvene to discuss episode 2 of Neon Genesis Evangelion ("The Beast"). It's an episode that speaks to our respective early-teen years of listening to terrible music on headphones and being depressed. Some of us have not stopped doing this and that's okay too.Cover art by UnzealousGet the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/lions-led-by-18-136876215Our merch store is open here: www.llbdpodcast.com
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COME SEE US LIVE OCT 4TH IN GLASGOW:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-glasgow-4th-october-2025-tickets-1501072671769SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysIn this episode, Joe, Nate, and Tom discuss a lesser-known battle in the Crimean War in which the British attempt to capture a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula after getting massively lost at sea (in an era where this wasn't supposed to happen) and getting waylaid when the King of Hawai'i invited them to the barbecue. We are not making any of this up.Sources:JR Stone. RJ Crampton. 'A Disastrous Affair': The Franco-British Attack on Petropavlovsk. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/abs/disastrous-affair-the-francobritish-attack-on-petropavlovsk-1854/D765F9B46DA8B5A0C6D55460466220A6Mark N Lardas. Petropavlosk: The Crimean War's Forgotten Battle. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/petropavlovsk-the-crimean-wars-forgotten-battle/John Stephens. The Crimean War in the Far East. Modern Asian Studies. Vol. 3. No. 3 (1969)
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysJoe, Nate, and Tom discuss the time that Alexander the Great altered the geography of the planet in order to build a huge land bridge and punish Tyre for not letting him visit the ancient world's most instagrammable temple.We've got merch available! Check out our store here: www.llbdpodcast.com/sources:https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/siege-of-tyre-alexander-the-greats-assault-on-the-persians/https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-fall-of-tyre/https://www.historynet.com/alexander-the-great-siege-of-tyre/https://www.historyonthenet.com/engines-of-destruction-the-evolution-of-siege-warfare-alexander-the-great
In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Human Terrain System, or what you might politely call "military anthropology." Is it ethical? No. Did it work? No. Was it run by someone named Dr. Montgomery McFate? Yes.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-133688496We've got merch available! Check out our store here: llbdpodcast.com/
Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle.Sources:CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWIIQuentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witness.Robert Lyman. Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raidhttps://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/cockleshell-heroes-who-what-operation-frankton-ww2/https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2024/10/2/operation-frankton-the-most-daring-raid-of-world-war-2https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/operation-frankton-the-true-story-of-the-cockleshell-heroes/
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COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/For this week's bonus, we're discussing the late-'60s insurgency in South Korea, back at a time when the DMZ was more of a concept than an actual barrier, and the North Korean military trained an elite commando unit to sneak across the border in 1968 with a mission to kill South Korean president Park Chung-Hee. They got... closer than you might think.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/131204772
SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysCome see us in London June 22nd: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/ Tom takes us on a journey exploring the origins and crimes of The Order, an American Neo Nazi terror group led by a dork ass loser and adult convert to Mormonism. Sources: The Order: Inside America’s Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt The Long History of White Nationalism in America by George Hawley https://lithub.com/the-long-history-of-white-nationalism-in-america/ The History of Tax Resistance: How Pocketbook Worries Became Ideological by Joseph Thorndike https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2024/01/22/the-history-of-tax-resistance-how-pocketbook-worries-became-ideological/ British Israelism: Critical Dictionary of Apocalytic and Millenarian Movements by Aidan Cottrell-Boyce https://www.cdamm.org/articles/british-israelism C-SPAN Cities Tour - Coeur d'Alene: Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLyDE0kDK-w The Rise and Fall of Aryan Nations: A RESOURCE MOBILIZATION PERSPECTIVE by Robert W. Balch https://www.jstor.org/stable/45294187 The Order - Rise of the Far Right: Robert J Mathews by ABC Broadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2rfOGNwIU&t=172s
GET THE FULL EPISODE ON PATREON HERE:patreon.com/posts/130683478COME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND:bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/Freed from the oppressive yoke of G Gundam, we venture into a different OVA series where Gundam is actually... good? We watched Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, a show about the horrors of war seen through the eyes of a child who, while not exactly bright or good at school, is somehow able to outsmart every single adult in this show. To include entire military organizations and spy agencies?
SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysCOME SEE US IN LONDON JUNE 22ND:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/In which the casus belli of two 14th-century Italian city states going to war was, in popular consciousness at least, the theft of a town's wooden bucket. Some Germans get involved as well.Sources used:https://allthatsinteresting.com/war-of-the-buckethttps://www.historynet.com/what-we-learned-from-the-battle-of-zappolino-1325/https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/10/18/beyond-the-pail-the-unbelievable-war-for-the-oaken-bucket-2/https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/bloodiest-medieval-war-fought-bucket.htmlhttp://www.zappolino.it/battaglia.htm
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Come see us live in London June 22nd:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/A conflict breaks out between a newly independent Mexico and a newly back-to-having-kings France. It culminates in a small series of armed incursions and blockades in 1838-39. Did it start because of an aggrieved French baker? Did Napoleon’s armies advance the science of military optics because their commander wanted to look at feet? In this episode (the first one where Nate has researched, written, and hosted), we get to the bottom of the semi-apocryphal Pastry War.Sources:Atwater, James D.; Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo. "Out from Under: Benito Juárez and the Struggle for Mexican Independence." Doubleday: Garden City, N.Y., 1969.Muñoz, Rafael Felipe. "Santa Anna, el dictador resplandeciente." Fondo de Cultura Económica: Mexico, 1982.Penot, Jacques. "L'expansion commerciale française au Mexique et les causes du conflit franco-mexicain de 1838-1839." Bulletin Hispanique 75-1-2, 1973. pp. 169-201Toussaint, Éric. "Le système dette : Histoire des dettes souveraines et de leur répudiation." Les Liens qui libèrent: Paris, 2017.
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We finally did it! Thank you for joining us on this very stupid journey.GET THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE:https://www.patreon.com/posts/128927315COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON JUNE 22NDbigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…ival-southbank/
COME SEE US IN LONDON:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/A Moluccan terror group took over a train in the Netherlands, leading to the longest train hijacking in history. It only ends when Dutch Commandos launch one of the worst rescue operations in European history.Sources:https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048555796-004/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopTs6kSVyzglNe9ZE0NzwO_2weL5McjhDU6iWQ3mOsH7_gDPyjFhttps://www.sbs.com.au/language/dutch/en/article/40-years-on-questions-remain-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-1977-dutch-train-siege/4y5ex2171https://nltimes.nl/2017/05/30/dutch-govt-releases-transcriptions-1977-train-hijackinghttps://www.dutchnews.nl/2018/07/court-clears-marines-for-killings-in-1977-moluccan-train-hijacking/https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/hansina-uktolseja-1955-1977/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/16/archives/20day-ordeal-aboard-the-hijacked-dutch-train-as-described-by-those.htmlhttps://nltimes.nl/2018/07/25/dutch-state-accountable-1977-train-hijackers-deaths-court-ruleshttps://nltimes.nl/2018/05/08/moluccan-train-hijackers-die-new-witnesses-sayhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070716051414/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article721950.ece/Herdenking_voor_kapers_van_trein_bij_De_Punt_1977_https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Treinkaping+bij+De+Punt&page=7&sortfield=datedesc&cql%5B%5D=%28dategte+%2201-01-1977%22%29&cql%5B%5D=%28datelte+%2231-12-1977%22%29&coll=ddd&redirect=true&identifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&resultsidentifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&rowid=2https://nltimes.nl/2014/11/20/unarmed-hijackers-killed-train-hijackinghttps://www.dutchnews.nl/2017/10/marines-in-court-over-shooting-of-activists-in-1977-de-punt-train-hijacking/https://apnews.com/general-news-b390fa1dad6147ab9179c262a49f80b4https://time.com/archive/6848782/terrorists-the-commandos-strike-at-dawn/
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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysCome see us live in London June 22nd:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly.Sources:N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions.Edwyn Gray. Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & DisastersAnthony Preston. World's Worst Warshipshttps://web.archive.org/web/20150924120339/http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/issues/archives/issue_49/KforKatastrophe.htmlhttps://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-may-island-january-1917-and-k-class-submarines-of-the-first-world-war/
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Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/Joe and Tom take the stage at Rich Mix to tell the story about the world's first military high speed train chase. Get the whole episoide on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/126771552
Come see us live in London June 22nd at the Big Fat Festival:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysPart 2/4Sources:Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else.Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's ResponseTaner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian GenocideTaner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian GenocideTaner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish ResponsibilityTaner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman EmpireVakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity.Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.
Episodes 38-42 of G Gundam involve a horse being made to pilot a gundam. Is this animal abuse? Which country does the horse represent?Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/126238814TICKETS FOR APRIL 11TH:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreatorhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreatorTICKETS FOR THE BIG FAT FESTIVAL IN JUNE:https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-big-fat-festival-southbank/
Joe, Tom, and Nate live in London talk about the time the Russian Empire sent a fleet around the world to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy.COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreatorTHERE'S ALSO A LIVESTREAM: get tickets to view the April 11th show from anywhere in the world! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreatorGet more bonus episodes like this on our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysLive show tickets:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreatorLive stream tickets:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreatorThis is the story of the Metz Yegern, The Great Evil Crime, or, what it would later become known as, the Armenian Genocide.Sources: Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else.Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's ResponseTaner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian GenocideTaner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian GenocideTaner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish ResponsibilityTaner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman EmpireVakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity.Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.
All good rebellions start at a bar. Note that we did not say 'successful' there. Quinn from the Failure to Launch podcast joins us as a guest host to discuss a time when francophone and anglophone Canadians joined forces to fight the British in hopes of declaring independence.Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/125794323COME SEE US LIVE IN LONDON! We're performing at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday, 11th April. Tickets availbable here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreator
GET YOUR LIVE SHOW TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreatorLIVE STREAM TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreatorSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysWhen America entered WWI they found their Navy seriously lacking. To fill the gap, FDR bought a bunch of yachts from his rich friends and tried to turn them into subchasers. It did no go well.Sources:https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2015/june/gilded-men-and-suicide-fleethttps://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/january/when-frank-jack-met-maggiehttps://airmail.news/issues/2024-8-24/the-new-york-yacht-club-goes-to-warhttps://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1973/june/eagle-boats-world-war-ihttps://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170527.htm
Liveshow tickets are now available for April 11th in London:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266997737339?aff=oddtdtcreatorLivestream tickets are also available for those who can't make it:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-podcast-live-in-london-11th-april-2025-tickets-1266999251869?aff=oddtdtcreatorSUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe Turtle was the world's first combat submarine, built during the American Revolution, and somehow, it didn't turn into an elaborate suicide device.Sources:https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/head-tilting-history/bushnells-turtle-revolutionary-submarinehttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2022/06/the-turtle-submarine-warfare-during-the-american-revolution/https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1942/february/david-bushnell-and-first-american-submarinehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/submersible-history-revolutionary-warhttps://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/david-bushnells-turtle-the-worlds-first-submarine/
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Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeysOnce upon a time, the US went to war against a small tribe in the pacific northwest, and, despite winning due to the massive power imbalance, they managed to get their asses kicked the entire time.Sources:Arthur Quinn. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc WarTerry Johnston. Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872–3Robert McNally. The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big https://www.historynet.com/the-modoc-war-a-little-indian-war-goes-big/Kurt Nelson. The Modoc War of 1872.https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-modoc-war-of-1872/https://www.militarymuseum.org/Modoc1.htmlhttps://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2012/the-beginning-of-the-end.shtmlhttps://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/labe/intro.htm
Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeysJoe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols.Sources:Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World.Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General.The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdfVictor Kamenir. Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River. Military Heritage. Vol 20, no. 6Robert Rossabi. All the Khan's Horses.
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Support the show on patreon!https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeysWe're on Bluesky@lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.socialThe English launch a raid against the Spanish city of Cadiz. Instead of planning anything whatsoever, the English get drunk on the beach and die.Correction: James VI/James I. Not James IVSources:https://web.archive.org/web/20070311113513/http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20292%201626.htmhttps://web.archive.org/web/20061003025931/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/glossary/cadiz.htmhttps://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/cadiz-expedition-1625-m.htmlhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9781315257228-16/expedition-cadiz-1625-ronald-bedford-lloyd-davis
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We thought we would unlock a bonus episode to bring some laughs to people on such a shitty day.Support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeysThe story of how a very stupid dictator ended up swinging upside down in front of a cheering crowd.sources:https://www.nationalww2museum.org/death-of-benito-mussolinihttps://www.history.com/news/mussolinis-final-hourshttps://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/how-did-benito-mussolini-die-the-story-behind-il-duces-last-moments/https://allthatsinteresting.com/benito-mussolini-deathRay Mosley. The Last 600 Days of Il Duce.
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The horrors continue!part 2/3Sources:Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of MunsterPeter Vansittart. The Siege.Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect
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Support the show on Patreon and get the rest of the series right now:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424What starts as a rational critique of the Reformation turns into a wild, sex crazed, blood thirsty, and heavily armed cult ruled by a man who thinks he can cure blindness by spitting in someone's eye while mass executions take place via comically oversized anime sword.The Anabaptists of Munster eventually turn everyone against them from Martin Luther to the Catholics to their own believers who simply like their wives.Content Warning: Everything, throughout the series.Part 1/3Sources:Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of MunsterPeter Vansittart. The Siege.Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect
SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysA colonial American uprising that united white men who wanted to steal more native land, slaves, and indentured servants against a corrupt Governor.GET LIVE SHOW TICKETS:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lions-led-by-donkeys-live-from-the-hague-tickets-912551134007Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424Sources:https://virginiahistory.org/learn/bacons-rebellion-virginia-years-1675-1676https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p274.htmlhttps://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/events-african-american-history/bacons-rebellion-1676/https://www.jyfmuseums.org/learn/research-and-collections/essays/a-history-of-bacons-rebellion-in-six-sourcesTales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
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SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSinking forts, suicide gun boats, and one very dumb fake country.Check us out on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@lionsledbydonkeyspodcast7424Sources:https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/new-orleans-civil-warhttps://64parishes.org/entry/fall-of-new-orleans-and-federal-occupation-adaptationhttps://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1962/april/fall-new-orleanshttps://www.historynet.com/big-trouble-big-easy-confederacy/https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/conquering-the-queen-city/
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysThe King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.Sources:https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527
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SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysScotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.Sources: https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moorPeter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish TragedyIda Taylor. The Life of James IVWilliam Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4
SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysIn the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.Sources:https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA381834.pdfchrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdfhttps://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.htmlhttps://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysJoe and Nate talk about the time a bunch of drunken American soldiers caused a pitched battle between themselves and their allies while stationed in Australia during WWIICorrection: Indigenous Australians were given Australian citizenship at the same time other Australians (1949) however, the quality of that citizenship was not equal to that of non-indigenous Australians. This continued for decades and as many indigenous Australian activists have pointed out, continues in various forms to this day.This included discrimination on enlistment. Some areas of Australia legally allowed indigenous people to enlist, but in practice, turned them away based on how they looked. Others were enlisted but not paid. Others were paid, but not equally and kept in segregated units and virtually none received benefits.sources:https://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/bob.htmhttps://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84830https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-battle-of-brisbane-how-world-war-ii-mass-riot-startedg/78b4e1be-bd3d-4d35-aef0-8b196213f4e7https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/culture-clash-americans-in-world-war-ii-south-pacific/https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-brisbane.htmlhttps://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/brisbane-news/diggers-lay-into-yanks-in-brisbane-battle-20171122-p4yx5o.htmlhttps://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/homefront/us_forces
The conclusion to the boxer rebellion series! Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysBuy joe's new sci fi series:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVL5M34N?binding=kindle_edition&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1711954537&sr=8-1
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The Imperial powers of Europe and Japan humiliate China until they create an uprising of magical martial artists who are terrified of period blood. SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: David Silby. The Boxer Rebellion and The Great Game in ChinaDiana Preston. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic History of China’s War Against Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900Henry Keown-Boyd. The Fists of Righteous HarmonyJoseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising
The conclusion to the story of a boy and his Chindits.SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysBUY JOE'S BOOK:https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TQI3C0BO6I0B&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1707720101&sprefix=%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1SOURCES:John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacyhttps://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadershipDavid Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.
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SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysOrde 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. BUY JOE'S BOOK:https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TQI3C0BO6I0B&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1707720101&sprefix=%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1SOURCES:John Diamond. British General Orde Wingate's Blurred Legacyhttps://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/2/13/orde-wingate-and-combat-leadershipDavid Rooney. Orde Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance.
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.BUY JOE'S BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3IDZ3WJXQ4CQJ&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1707120531&sprefix=%2Caps%2C236&sr=8-1SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSOURCES:https://www.americanheritage.com/lincolns-corrupt-war-departmentMicheal Thomas Smith. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. Journal of the Civil War Era. Vol 3, no. 1. Pp. 137-139Tim Koenig. The Days of Shoddy: Wost Manufacturers of the Civil War. Civil War Quarterly. Vol. 3. no. 2.
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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. Buy Joe's new book:https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KQQ88V9SZ7K1&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1706602108&sprefix=%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1Sources: George LePre. Fragging: Why US Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnamhttps://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2017/01/27/alberto-martinez-acquitted-killing-local/22538316007/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/nyregion/21frag.htmlhttps://journalnow.com/witness-soldier-changed-before-fatal-iraq-blast/article_95ae16fb-b3e6-51b8-b445-d609e6d77e94.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.html
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Once upon a time the King of Portugal started a war that went so badly it collapsed his dynasty and killed three different kings all at once. BUY JOE'S BOOK:https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-War-Military-Sci-Fi-Undying-ebook/dp/B0CQ6BH6BD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26EUS2ZHZB3Z9&keywords=joe+kassabian&qid=1706440190&sprefix=joe+kassabian%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-1SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSOURCES:https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/08/343746/why-the-battle-of-the-three-kings-lives-on-in-moroccan-memoryhttps://www.historynet.com/three-dead-kings-war-in-morocco/#:~:text=By%20midafternoon%20on%20Aug,and%20North%20Africa%20for%20decades.https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Medieval/BattleOfTheThreeKings
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The conclusion to the Satsuma Rebellion! SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSOURCES:Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern JapanWilliam Beasley. The Meiji RestorationJames Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.
The heroic story of how Samurai Warlord Saigo Takamori rose up against the changing of the times. But actually, it wasn't really about that at all.SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern JapanWilliam Beasley. The Meiji RestorationJames Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai. Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-samurai-against-the-imperial-japanese-army/
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Joe and Nate talk about the time South Vietnam attempted to invade Laos. It did not go well.SUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSOURCES:Sources: https://www.comanchero.org/LamSon719.htmlhttps://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/invasion-02172021125804.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/27016309Robert Sander. The Invasion of Laos, 1971 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3024288https://www.history.com/news/laos-most-bombed-country-vietnam-warhttps://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/mauled-in-laos/https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-nightmare-mission-into-laos-operation-lam-son-719/
Chinese soldiers defended the Great Wall of China armed with swords, axes, and martial arts....in the 1930sSUPPORT THE SHOW:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.historynet.com/last-battle-great-wall/https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/the-forgotten-story-of-japans-attack-on-the-great-wall-of-china-5b7f75e326b8https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-imperial-japan-seized-great-wall-china-91386https://www.republicanchina.org/war.shtml
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Once upon a time enemies put aside their differences to collectively ignore their officers orders.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-trucehttps://www.history.com/news/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accountshttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-the-christmas-trucehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25206-2004Dec24.htmlMax Hastings. Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War
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You've heard of the Kamikaze. Now learn about where they got their name. Sources:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/kamikaze-001995https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/141104-kamikaze-kublai-khan-winds-typhoon-japan-invasionhttps://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-kamikaze-pilots-wwiihttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/how-typhoon-sank-kublai-khan-weatherwatchhttps://www.thoughtco.com/the-mongol-invasions-of-japan-195559https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/divine-winds-triumphant/
Circus performer, champion boxer, first ever African American combat pilot, club owner, Jazz artist, and spy. Eugene Bullard was one of the coolest men to ever live.SUPPORT THE SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysLIVE SHOW TICKETSNight one: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…s-live-podcast/Night two: bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led…odcast-27jan24/Sources:https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/eugene-j-bullardhttps://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20231112-eugene-ballard-pioneering-african-american-aviator-who-flew-for-france-in-wwihttps://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bullard-eugene-jacques-1894-1961/https://www.historynet.com/eugene-bullard-americas-first-black-fighter-pilot/
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This is the story of how Chechen Terrorists and the Russian state joined forces to create the worst school attack of all time.SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysGET YOUR LIVE SHOW TICKETS RIGHT HERE: https://bigbellycomedy.club/event/lions-led-by-donkeys-live-podcast/Sources:Timothy Phillips. Beslan: Tragedy at school number 1John Giduck. Terror at BeslanHBO. Children of Beslan
Captain Cook shows up in the Hawaiian Islands and pisses off the entire population ending in the funniest possible outcome.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: Richard Tregaskis. Hawaii's Warrior King: King Kamehamaha The GreatGlyn Williams. The Death of Captain Hook: A Hero Made and UnmadeHawaiian Historical Society Reprints 1787, 1788,1789Val Wake. Who Killed Captain Cook?
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Before Benedict Arnold became the world's most famous traitor, he tried to invade Canada, it went about as well as you'd expect. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/quebec-assaulthttps://www.americanacorner.com/blog/1775-invasion-quebechttps://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-canada-during-the-american-revolutionary-war/https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/arnolds-flawed-invasion-of-quebec/
Once upon a time Irish-Americans thought it would be a good idea to invade Canada from the US. It did not go well.CORRECTION: Andrew Johnson*EDIT: I meant David FincherSources:https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/chrono/1774fenian_e.htmlhttps://www.military.com/undertheradar/2019/03/15/civil-war-vets-wanted-invade-canada-liberate-ireland.htmlhttps://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/fenians/index.aspxhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/24778340https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Century19th/FenianRaidshttps://www.historynet.com/fenian-raids-invasions-of-british-ruled-canada/
This is a preview episode, for the whole thing go here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-of-92144860
The conclusion to our Battle of Stalingrad series! Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysLast chance to preorder some merch:https://llbdmerch.com/products/stalingrad-street-fighting-academy-t-shirt
Part 4/5 of the Battle of Stalingrad!Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysPre order some merch:https://llbdmerch.com/products/stalingrad-street-fighting-academy-t-shirt
This is a preview, for the full episode become a patreon supporter here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91202542?pr=trueThe first episode of our new side series, LLBR, where Tom and Joe watch robot related media! For this first series arc we're watching G Gundam, the most insane thing ever thought up by the Gundam universe.
Part 3 of 5 of our battle of stalingrad series. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysget some merch! https://www.patreon.com/posts/pre-order-your-90833773
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The horrors beyond human comprehension continue! Part 2/5Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:David Glantz. Stalingrad I-IIIAnthony Beevor. Stalingrad.Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.
This is a preview of a bonus episode. If you want to listen to the whole thing, support the show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysPete Ellis was a marine who not only foresaw the pacific theater of WWII, but pretty much invented the modern US Marine Corps. He was also a drunken madman who went on one of the worst spying missions in American history.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/90133415In late September 2023, Azerbaijan invaded what was left of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh after starving the population and holding them hostage since December 2022. Over 100,000 people are now in Armenia after they have been forced to flee upon fear of death or worse. The Armenian state on its own cannot handle the immediate needs of this many refugees.Our goal is to give a targeted monthly grant to the families most in need. Those with many young children, widows, the disabled, and others in the amount of 100,000AMD (253$) for 6 months per family. We can expand this program as funds allow. They can use this money any way they see fit. Mostly to cover rent in a country where rental costs have gone up over 300% in the last 2 years.If you already support the show, you're already supporting the program. However, if you would like to donate more or make a one-time donation, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.In this show we always talk about the people caught within the grinding gears of history, those who have been allowed to fall through the cracks of blind military violence, international apathy, and the brutality of empire.Together, today, we can choose deeds over words unlike so many other international organizations, governments, and world powers that we have tasked with doing so.
The story of one of the most horrific battles in all of human history.Part 1/5Support the show, get the entire series right now:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:David Glantz. Stalingrad I-IIIAnthony Beevor. Stalingrad.Alexander Hill. The Red Army and the Second World War. Chris Bellamy. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War.
Striking factory workers hold off an attempted amphibious invasion launched by Pinkertons with guns, bombs, and fire ships.Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/homestead-strikehttps://battleofhomestead.org/the-battle-of-homestead/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-strike-homestead-mill/https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-homesteadhttps://archive.org/details/jstor-25102447
This is a preview. For the entire episode go here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/89709631?pr=trueTom and Joe watch Master and Commander, otherwise known as why life in the navy sucks.
The terror group the United Red Army was born out of the fires of the anti imperialist student movement of japan but rapidly turned into a death cult. Within a few weeks even taking a shower would be considered counter revolutionary.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: Yoshikuni Igarashi. Dead Bodies and Living Guns: The United Red Army and Its Deadly Pursuit of Revolution, 1971–1972.Patricia Steinhoff. Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red ArmyNHK World. The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy
This episode is just a preview. Get the whole thing here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-65864515Joe is joined by Sarah of It Came From the Sea to talk about that time when the navy teleported a ship and melted people into ship centaurs(or didn't but that's no fun)
A badly designed submarine becomes the face of the french navy while accidently doing everything it can to convince people that the crew might be nazi agents.
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Sources: William H. Langenberg. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bizarre Surcouf
Christopher Miskimon. Seizure of the Surcouf
https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/seizure-of-the-surcouf-operation-catapult
https://www.theday.com/local-news/20161119/french-subs-visit-to-new-london-launched-conspiracy-theory/
*this is a preview. to get the full episode support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/posts/88848996?pr=trueA few weeks ago Tom made a patreon goal that if we hit 5500 supporters we would read horrible fan fiction starring Muammar Gaddafi, Josef Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. It's horrible and you've been warned.
In the final episode of the series, we learn about the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Deutscher Herbst, or "German Autumn" of 1977. In two months in late 1977, the leadership of the first generation of the Red Army Faction would murder a high-profile German industrialist (and former SS officer), hijack a plane, and commit group suicide. And let's just say it made an impression in West Germany.
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Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.
Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
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The US invents a reason to invade the tiny island nation of Grenada based on plans made from some tourist maps.
In this episode, we cover the early- to mid-1970s bombing campaigns of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, and some of the... interesting personalities of the group members.
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Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.
Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.'
Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.
Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.'
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.
Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
We've decided to answer your questions. We chose from a list and assembled the cast of Joe, Nate, and Tom to do our best to give honest feedback... or something like it.
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Tom takes the wheel for another series. This time the Red Army Faction, a German left wing terror group funded by bank robberies and fueled by chain smoking.
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Sources:
The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.
Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.
Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex
This is a preview, for the whole episode get access here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-d-60639257
What if you sucked so badly at your job you almost accidentally killed the president
US Marines and Soldiers invade the fortress island of Saipan and end up hating each other almost as much as the Japanese.
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Sources:
http://www.battleofsaipan.com/seabee.htm
Philip Crowl, "Campaign in the Marianas", vol. 9
Richard Frank. Downfall: End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/saipan-a-crucial-foothold-in-the-marianas/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/duel-to-the-death/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-war-between-the-smiths-high-command-feud-at-saipan/
Joe, Francis, and Shocks watch the 2018 film, 12 Strong which comes out looking even more ridiculous as few years later.
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Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the time the US and North Korea almost went to war over a poplar tree.
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Sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/axe-murder-north-korea-1976/562028/
https://ns.clementspapers.org/briefing-books/korea-tree-incident
https://medium.com/@qz_li/korean-axe-murder-incident-48f3e16e47b6
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/14/north-korea-1976-axe-murder-incident-215605/
Everyone has heard of Charles Taylor, the brutal dictator of Liberia. This is the story of his son, Chuckie Taylor, an American born nerd turned head of Liberian national security, international diamond smuggler, and one of the worst war criminals in Liberian history.
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UPDATE WE FOUND HIS RAP MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/@BentmanOfficial/about
Sources:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chucky-taylor-liberias-other-monster/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/09/charles-taylor-jr-torture-liberia
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2009/January/09-crm-021.html
Johnny Dwer. American Warlord: A True Story.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/23/liberia-war-crimes-chucky-taylor
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Muammar Gaddafi invades Chad with one of the most powerful armies in Africa. What happens next is one of the most lopsided defeats in military history.
Bad customs officers cause an uprising so bad it contributes to the fall of rome.
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Sources:
Alessandro Barbero. The Day of the Barbarians.
Peter Heather. The Fall of the Roman Empire.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-gothic-wars-battle-of-adrianople/
https://www.historynet.com/adrianople-last-great-battle-of-antiquity/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/roman-disaster-at-adrianople/
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Joe, Francis, and Shocks discover that Sharpe is pretty much just James Bond but poor and in the army.
The conclusion to the fall of singapore series!
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Once upon a time the dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, attempted to recruit a Chicago street gang from Chicago to conduct terror attacks in America. This is the very dumb story.
Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the most embarrasing allied defeat of WWII Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Sources:
Lindsey Murdoch. The Day the Empire Died in Shame.
Janet Urh. Against The Sun. The AIF in Malaya.
Kirby Woodburn. Et Al. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Vol. I
Brian Farrell. The Defense and Fall of Singapore 1940-1942.
Allen Parfitt. Bicycle Blitzkrieg: The Japanese Conquest of Malaya and Singapore.
Michigan, led by a 22 year old governor, invades Ohio to claim Toledo.
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Sources:
Emmanuel, Greg (2004). The 100-Yard War: Inside the 100-Year-Old Michigan–Ohio State Football Rivalry. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons. pp. 8–10. ISBN 0-471-67552-0.
"The Ohio–Michigan Boundary War: Battle of Phillips Corners Marker #2–26".
"The Toledo War". Geography of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region. Michigan State University.
Italy invades Ethiopia, gets churned into a chunky, sauce-like liquid.
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Sources:
Raymond Jonas. The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
Greg Blake. The First Italo-Abyssinian War: The Battle of Adwa
Greg Peduto. Italy's Failed African Gambit
Crusaders attempt to drive the Ottomans out of the Balkans. It does not go well.
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sources:
Aziz Antiya. Crusades in the Later Middle Ages
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_nicopolis.html
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/crusader-disaster-at-nicopolis/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/march-to-destruction-nicopolis-1396/
CONTENT WARNINGJoe and Tom discuss The Madness of Francisco Macías Nguema, a dictator nicknamed The Pol Pot of Africa.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Tufts Mass Atrocity Endings for Equatorial GuineaPaul Kenyon. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa.https://web.archive.org/web/20230306160338/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3610187/If-you-think-this-ones-bad-you-should-have-seen-his-uncle.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230517050409/https://www.icj.org/the-trial-of-macias-in-equatorial-guinea-the-story-of-a-dictatorship/
A group of Native Americans launch one of the longest fighting retreats in North American military history in order to escape genocide at the hands of the US government. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Bruce Hampton. Children of Grace, The Nez Perce War of 1877Elliot West. The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Storyhttps://warfarehistorynetwork.com/the-last-battle-of-the-nez-perce-war/Elliot West. Dreamweaver.
The story of the most deadly submarine disaster in American history.Support the show and get episodes like this a week before everyone else, plus bonus episodes!https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/14/questions-about-infamous-lost-sub-thresher-resurface-navy-releases-new-documents-tied-decades-old-mystery.htmlhttps://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresherhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-submarine-sinks-in-atlantichttps://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureperil-in-the-depths-the-worlds-worst-submarine-disasters-4191027/https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2ffoia%2freadingroom%2fHotTopics%2fTHRESHER%20RELEASEhttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/rip-how-mechanical-problem-led-uss-thresher-its-eternal-patrol-92421Norman Polmar. The Death of the USS Thresher
A blind man tries to charge a line of English longbowmen. It ends exactly like you think it does.Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/what-happened-battle-crecy-edward-iii-hundred-years-war-victory-why/Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy, 1346 Andrew Ayton. The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significancehttps://www.historytoday.com/archive/edward-iii-and-battle-cr%C3%A9cyhttps://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/death-by-longbow/https://www.wired.com/2009/08/0826crecy-cannon/
The conclusion to the saga of the Taiping Rebellion! Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Trouble in the heavenly kingdom!part 3/4Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
The Taiping rebellion spreads and the rebels create the world's weirdest gunpowderPart 2/4Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
A man fails a civil service exam, loses his goddamn mind, and leads China into the deadliest civil war in human history. Part 1/4Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Johnathan Spence. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan.Stephen Platt. Autumn in the heavenly kingdomJian Youwen. The Taiping Revolutionary Movement
Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Plutarch. Crassus. Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to EmpireRoman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae
A sex worker turned pirate queen builds a more powerful navy than the entire navy of China.Support the show!https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate
Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time that Crusaders forgot that humans need water to live. Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Nicholson, R. L. Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader StatesPhillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin
The conclusion to the Battle of Tannenberg seriesSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Joe and Nate begin the story of one of the most legendary battles from the beginning of WWI. It is much dumber than you think.Part 1/3support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=enhttps://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.htmlhttps://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7CORRECTION:Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself.
Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeyssources:https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-nighthttps://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witcheshttps://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots
Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth.Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.htmlhttp://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.htmlhttps://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-iihttps://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes.
The conclusion to The Troubles series Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysListen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast:https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPodFollow Tom on Twitter:https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys
Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable. CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim. Support the show! Get bonus content!https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysFollow Tom on Twitter:https://twitter.com/gotitatguineysListen to The Beneath the Skin Podcast:https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPod
Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles. In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysListen to the Beneath The Skin Podcast: https://twitter.com/BeneathSkinPodFollow Tom on Twitter:https://twitter.com/gotitatguineys
Tom O'Mahoney (@gotitatguineys)Host of the Beneath The Skin Podcast takes Joe on a trip through The Troubles of Northern Ireland. Part 1/4Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Joe is once again joined by the show's producer Nate to talk about how in the middle of a stagnated war, two teams of knights got together to kill each other out of boredom as a crowd of spectators watched on. support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeyssources:Barbara Tuchman. A Distant Mirrorhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121105020628/http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/chroniqu/texts/AINSWORT.HTMSteven Muhlberger. The Combat of the Thirty, Deeds of Arms Series, vol. 2
Joe is joined by producer Nate (@inthesedeserts)to talk about the time the CIA attempted to invade cuba with a handful of guys and some repurposed fishing trawlers. Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeyssources:http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2134https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/bop-vol3.pdfhttps://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion/https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasionhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160621043713/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html
The horrible conclusion to King Philip’s WarSupport the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved KinJames Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New EnglandKyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War
The war finally starts and the colonial authorities immediately make everything much worse. Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysBuy Joe's books:https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Corps-Military-Sci-Fi-Forlorn-ebook/dp/B0B5YJD7J2/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=0F9hR&content-id=amzn1.sym.e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_p=e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_r=BJFJ8DMEE9M0Y60XFEVE&pd_rd_wg=HG18o&pd_rd_r=03aa9132-cb25-484a-a41e-dd419379f0a4&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_mSources:Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved KinJames Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New EnglandKyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War
The little known story of the most apocalyptic war in American History. Part 1/3Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved KinJames Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New EnglandKyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War
the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible. Support the show:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources:Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Diehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.htmlhttps://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257
Once upon a time New Zealand made their own tank. It did not go well.
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sources: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/NewZealand/Bob_Semple_Tank.php The Semple Tank, J.Plowman, Classic Military Vehicle Magazine National Library of New Zealand
Things get weird in the conclusion to the Otto Skorzeny story.
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The pretender to the Albanian throne and Rhodesia fan boy declares himself king, gets arrested for smuggling guns, and gets in a high speed private plane chase while armed with a rocket launcher.
Joe is joined by KD, writer and runner of the War Takes blog.
https://wartakes.com/
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Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/01/leka-zogu https://www.ft.com/content/6f2f39aa-21ab-11e1-a1d8-00144feabdc0 https://web.archive.org/web/20210613055654/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8926722/Leka-I-Zogu.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010122090100/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/1127/balkankings.html
Skorzeny launches the mission to rescue Benito Mussolini from a ski resort, it does not go well.
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Sources: Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943
Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando
Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite Commando during WWII, he was also a total loser.
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Sources:
Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943
Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando
An order of knights turned protection racket defend a chunk of rock from an Ottoman force several times their size using the military equivalent of Home Alone tactics. and then people began firing heads out of cannons.
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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/no-mercy-malta/
Crowley, Roger (2008). Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
The US Marines feed thousands of marines into a Japanese meat grinder for no tactical reason before trying to ignore help from the Army to save their pride.
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Sources: Sledge, Eugene B. (1990). With the Old Breed: At Peleliu And Okinawa
Leckie, Robert, Helmet For My Pillow
Anderson, Charles R. Western Pacific. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/unnecessary-hell-the-battle-of-peleliu/
Joe is joined by the hosts of Ukraine without Hype to talk about the time the Russian Empire fell for a con artist and invaded a khanate to try to steal gold that didn't exist.
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Sources: Morrison, Alexander, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia"
"A Narrative of the Russian Military Expedition to Khiva under General Perofski", Translated from the Russian for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Calcutta, 1867
‘Pray for the Camels’: The Winter Invasion of Khiva, 1839–41
The conclusion to the story of Witold Pilecki
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Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer
Pilecki plots his escape when it becomes clear that the allies will do nothing about the crimes being committed within Auschwitz.
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Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer
Witold Pilecki was a Polish Freedom Fighter who volunteered to get thrown into Auschwitz in order to let the world know what was happening there.
The world didn't listen.
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Sources: Witold Pilecki. Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Adam Koch. A Captain's Portrait: Witold Pilecki - Martyr for Truth Jack Fairweather. The Volunteer
Rome kills 80,000 of their own soldiers because of a personal beef.
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Sources:
Theodor Mommsen. The History of Rome IV "The Revolution"
Plutarch. Life of Marius.
Richard Evans. Rome's Cimbric Wars
Peter Tsouras. The Cimbrian War, 113-101 BC
Mike Duncan. The Storm before the Storm
During WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI.
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sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch
https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132240/http://www.montauklife.com/history/history_night_of_the_nazis.html
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/erschiessen-oder-erhaengen-a-77234129-0002-0001-0000-000007859070?context=issue
https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942/
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese military set their eyes on a tiny speck of a rock staffed with a handful of Marines and civilian contractors. Trapped and with no hope of relief, the strange adhoc garrison made the invaders bleed.
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Sources: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-of-wake-island-1941
https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wake-island/
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003119-00/sec1.htm
https://www.historynet.com/hard-luck-island-battle-of-wake-island/
America scrapes together the US Navy to go fight pirates on the other side of the world. They accomplish almost nothing and then go home.
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Sources:
Wheelan, Joseph (2003), Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805
Zacks, Richard (2005), The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/barbary-wars/first-barbary-war/
https://www.historynet.com/tripoli-pirates-foiled/
Once upon a time the US Navy went on a scientific expedition based upon the theory of a hollow earth. They murdered swaths of innocent people and the commander went insane, beating and kidnapping most of his own crew.
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sources:
https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/
https://archive.org/details/seaofgloryameric00phil
https://www.chimuadventures.com/blog/2016/08/charles-wilkes/
Spicer Simson rides into some of the dumbest combat of all time, somehow wins.
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Sources: Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
During WWI the british navy thought of one of the most pointless battle plans of the entire war. They had to find someone equally worthless to command it.
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Sources:
Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
Part 3/3 Custer leads his command to their deaths.
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Sources:
Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse
Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"
Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.
He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.
The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876
Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.
Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn
Part 2/3 The American invasion of native land gets off to a bad start.
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Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse
Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"
Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.
He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.
The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876
Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.
Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn
The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains.
Part 1/3
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Sources for the entire series: Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse
Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"
Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.
He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.
The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876
Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.
Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn
The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason.
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Sources: Fowler, Will. Allies at Dieppe.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-dieppe
https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/dieppe-a-colossal-blunder
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The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up.
sources: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo
https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/
Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/
https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/
Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press.
corrections
FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.
The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance.
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Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War
Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 4/5
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Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War
Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 3/5
Suicide canoes, it turned out, would not be the wonder weapon Solano Lopez thought they would be.
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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim
Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War
Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
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Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins.
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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim
Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War
Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent.
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Sources: Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War
Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.
The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career
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Sources: Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1
What if your local sports fans attempted a coup
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Sources: Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532
JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1
The conclusion to the nanking series
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Sources: https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-10/tokyo-trials
Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII
Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing
David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14
Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.
Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/
Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
CW: Everything
Part 2/3
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Sources: Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII
Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing
David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14
Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.
Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/
Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Content warning: Everything.
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Sources for all related episodes: Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII
Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing
David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14
Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.
Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing http://museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/
Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Joe, Francis, and Shocks talk about the weirdest military unit of all time.
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Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html?safari=1
https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/07/28/potsdam-giants-by-name/
Darwin, Charles (1871). The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. John Murray. p. 112.
https://knoji.com/article/the-potsdam-guards-prussias-giant-soldiers/
https://random-times.com/2018/07/14/king-frederick-william-i-of-prussia-and-his-obsession/
Joe and Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast continue the story of Herman Perry, the Jungle King hero of WWII.
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Sources: Koerner, Brendan. "Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII" https://www.cbi-theater.com/ledoroad/Ledo_Main.html https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-soldiers-and-ledo-road-1942-1945/
Joe is joined by Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast to talk about one of the coolest soldiers to ever serve in the US Army.
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Sources: Koerner, Brendan. 'Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/african-americans-world-war-ii
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/
The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition
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Part 2/4
The Detroit's own finally make it to Russia, which has been transformed into the disease realm by the Spanish Flu
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Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution.
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Sources for all related episodes:
James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over
https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Company+A+339th+Infantry&ei=TWg1S_T4KYLEMbmezcIE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/
http://pbma.grobbel.org/
The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk
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SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!"
They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk.
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Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk.
Correction:
Panzer V - Panther Panzer VI - Tiger
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The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps.
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Sources for all related episodes:
Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.
Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer!
Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm
Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,
Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people.
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Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/ A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up
Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest.
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Sources: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED
The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy.
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It turns out a 2 week long war has 100 years of history
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The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia
Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *
*your experience may vary
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Sources:
With the Marines At Tarawa One Square Mile of Hell https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/
What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa? One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time.
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Sources:
The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand
https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change
The American Revolution left a lot of people behind.
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sources: Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.
Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper.
*correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966.
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Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains.
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Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/ https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941
The story of the deadliest woman in military history
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Sources: Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/
The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat.
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sources: https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1
Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government.
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sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/desires-of-a-modern-indian/war-of-the-stray-dog-a-war-sparked-by-ridiculous-reasons/?source=app&frmapp=yes http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2017/03/war-of-stray-dog.html
2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history.
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sources: https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html
Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave.
Corrections
Francis mixed up the Pottawatomie massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry. The massacre occured in 1856 and the raid in 1859 which ended in Brown's uprising being put down by famed asshole Robert E Lee and Brown's death.
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WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945.
It went on a lot longer for some people.
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Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-japanese-wwii-soldier-who-refused-to-surrender-for-27-years-180979431/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan https://archive.today/20130717075553/http://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes/1949-01-10/page-5?tag=kufuku&rtserp=tags/kufuku%3Fndt=by&py=1949&pey=1951
"Straggler Reports to Emperor", Pacific Stars and Stripes, p. 1, June 8, 1960
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800405&id=J3pQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6758,842754
Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII.
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Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/ https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml
Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands.
Sources:
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/
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Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live.
*clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense.
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The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300
Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
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The famed Rough Riders were a liability
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Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more!
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Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire.
Sources for all 3 episodes: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090
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A bunch of christian knights get hijacked to knee cap some people over boat debt.
Sources: https://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-the-second-siege-of-constantinople/ https://www.thecollector.com/fourth-crusade-siege-constantinople-fall-of-byzantine-empire/ Hindley, Geoffrey (2003). The Crusades: A History of Armed Pilgrimage and Holy War
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The Ottoman Empire trips over its own dick into WWI, orders an army to attack up a mountain in the middle of winter without shoes, and commits a genocide.
sources: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60960/wwi-centennial-turkish-debacle-sarikamish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew39InPunOY https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/armenian.htm https://www.armenian-genocide.org/1915-1.html https://fx.substack.com/p/today-in-caucasian-history-the-battle-4ab
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Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ivan-pavlovich-soviet-soldier.html?chrome=1 https://www.rbth.com/history/326983-5-soviet-superheroes-in-ww-2 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/russian-rambo-of-wwii.html?chrome=1
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Sources: https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/aleutian-islands-campaign.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/aleutian-islands-attack-1942 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/today-in-history/forgotten-campaign-wwii-aleutian-islands-campaign.html https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-aleutian-islands-recapturing-attu/
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Sources: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-super-scary-legend-nazi-germanys-me-163-rocket-fighters-18494
https://books.google.com/books?id=xiADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124&dq=popular+science+%22A+two-room+wing%22&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q&f=true
"Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet". Wings of the Luftwaffe
Volmar, Joe (1999). I Learned to Fly for Hitler
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/10/the-german-rocket-fighter-that-dissolved-its-pilots-alive/
The conclusion of the reign of Bokassa I
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Sources for both episodes:
Titley, B. (1997). Dark Age: the political odyssey of Emperor Bokassa
O'Toole, T. (1982). "Made in France: the Second Central African Republic"
Kalck, P. (1971). Central African Republic: a failure in de-colonisation
The 2nd and last part of our series on the Namibian Genocide
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Germany unifies and colonizes Namibia, is shocked to find out this is unpopular to the people who live there.
Sources for both episodes: The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia (War and Genocide Book 31) The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
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The conclusion to our duology
The US invades Mexico, gets lost, commits crimes against humanity, goes home.
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The US fucks around in Mexican politics and eventually finds out.
Sources: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/108653.htm https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/fall/mexican-punitive-expedition-1.html https://history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/mexex.html https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm Pancho Villa and the Attack on Columbus, New Mexico
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the conclusion to our First Chechen War series
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Russians invade the Chechen capital of Grozny, sparking one of the most devastating urban battles in modern military history.
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A preview of our upcoming Premium podcast series The History of Armenia. If you like what you hear donate to the show at the $3 level or above to unlock it: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Part 2 of our 4 part series. Russia invades the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and promptly bombs and shells themselves without mercy.
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Part 1 of our 4 part series on the first Chechen War. Throughout history Russia continues to try to subjugate Chechnya, leading to generations of war.
Sources for all 4 episodes: The Oath Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat: Lessons from the Urban Combat Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009 One Soldier's War Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya
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Mathew Charles Lamb was Canada's first spree shooter. He was found insane and locked up in a psych ward. He was then dosed with acid, deemed sane, and went off to fight and die in Rhodesia.
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Will Toffan. Watching the Devil Dance
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ogRFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5820%2C4561932
https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3002_08/869?r=0&s=2
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yEM_AAAAIBAJ&dq=matthew-charles-lamb&pg=2021%2C3005270
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oARFAAAAIBAJ&dq=mathew%20lamb&pg=5652%2C3419165
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qj9VAAAAIBAJ&dq=lamb%20canada%20rhodesia&pg=4006%2C2766738
During WWII the US developed a revolutionary new torpedo that excelled at attempting to murder the people who launched it. This didn't seem to bother the US Navy.
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sources: https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14/ https://navalunderseamuseum.org/mk-14/ https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/torpedo-scandal-rear-adm-charles-lockwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/ https://www.businessinsider.com/how-legendary-wwii-navy-submarine-uss-tang-sank-itself-2020-10
The US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win.
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The US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers.
sources for both episodes https://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm https://europeremembers.com/story/battle-of-huertgen-forest/ https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/ https://9thinfantrydivision.net/battle-of-the-hurtgen-forest/ https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/longest-land-battle-hurtgen-forest/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2020/01/29/the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest-a-tactical-nightmare-for-allied-forces/
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The conclusion of the Conrad Von Hotzendorf story
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A new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena.
corrections
Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to say was "Bosnian Serb" and our brain melted mid sentence.
sources for both episodes: A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire Collision Course: Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf, Serbia, and the Politics of Preventive War https://www.historynet.com/carpathian-catastrophe.htm http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2019/11/forgotten-campaign-carpathian-winter.html
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Jack Churchill was a lunatic and one of the most interesting people to ever run screaming onto an enemy beach while wielding a sword.
sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/mad-jack-churchill https://www.historynet.com/the-daring-exploits-of-mad-jack-churchill.htm https://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackchurchill https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/jack-churchill-carry-a-sword.html https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2019/01/07/mad-jack-churchill-a-rare-breed-of-warrior/
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The non exhaustive story of how the corporate world supported the Nazis as they committed the worst crimes in human history.
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Sources: https://timeline.com/fanta-coca-cola-nazi-845ee7e513af https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta-in-nazi-germany-2019-11 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany Edwin Black. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/6/
A return of the animal episode!
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Bunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher!
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Sources: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-albania-became-a-pyramid-scheme/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/albania/articles/the-pyramid-crisis-in-albania/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm
Joe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism.
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"A nation for a nation"
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sources: https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social Studies
Monte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history.
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Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda"
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The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia.
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Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia
At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history.
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Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651 https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721
One the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office.
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Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm
Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War.
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Sources: https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/ https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html
A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history.
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Sources: Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/
Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI.
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Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/ https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/
South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue.
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sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/asia/south-korea-failed-assassination-squad-unit-684-intl/index.html http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20050824000044 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html
In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power.
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Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge
sources for all 4 episodes: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison A Cambodian odyssey The Pol Pot Regime When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution Cambodia: Year Zero Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982
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Our first episode ever was about Luigi Cadorna. A lot has changed in the last nearly 3 years so we decided to redo the whole thing during a charity live stream. During the stream we raised over 5,000$ for displaced and at need victims of the recent war in Armenia.
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naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my!
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Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/
During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle.
Listen to It Came From the Sea @fromtheseapod
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Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen Poldermans, Sophie. Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII
The conclusion of the Third Servile War
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Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees.
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Appian. Civil Wars. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey" Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989
One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud.
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Sources: https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf
Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit.
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Sources: https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII https://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost-tape-no-10-haunted-mixtape-the-vietnam-war.htm
Folks, it's bad.
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Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29 https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/
During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it.
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Sources: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-punish-16-afghan-hospital-airstrike-n564826 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/kunduz-hospital-attack-even-in-20-years-we-wont-get-such-a-hospital-again https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/03/afghanistan-us-airstrike-hits-kunduz-hospital
Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying.
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Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech
Sources: Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/
Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.
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Francis from the Hell of a way to die Podcast and Shocks, everyone's favorite podcast lawyer join the show to talk about all of the times the US and USSR lost nuclear weapons due to horrible incompetence.
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sources: https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-us-has-lost https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2012/10/broken-arrow-lost-nuclear-weapons-in-canada/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/
The war ends and the world sets itself on course for nuclear hellfire.
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Sources regarding propaganda discussed at the end of the show: WARNING: This is explicit porn. In case you want to just read what a historian Tim Clark wrote about this piece when it appeared in 2013 exhibition, Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1600-1900.
"Popular print culture in Japan was extensively mobilised to support the country’s war effort in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. This is a particularly savage piece of anti-Russian propaganda.A different (presumed earlier) version of the design was produced using different woodblocks. The flag at top left is Russian, the soldiers in the background are Russians fleeing, and the following dialogue appears with the two foreground figures: [Russian:] (in Romanised script with katakana glosses) “I think I’m going to die!” (Watakushi mō shinisō desu) [Japanese soldier:] “I’ll soon deliver the final blow…” (Sugu todome o sashite yarō) [Russians:] “Quick, let’s run away!” (Hayaku nigero) "
The original korean translation of the print that was found during researching was inaccurate. A full translation from japanese shows this is meant to show the japanese military "raping" the russian military. These prints were very common and popular, though technically illegal. WARNING: https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_12/317b80e3_54cc_4575_8936_a3dd00d07c11/mid_01361913_001.jpg
There is a non graphic link to further research on the changing japanese propaganda done by actual art historians and not our dumbasses: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/mar2008.html
The Russian Navy sets off on a one way journey into naval history.
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Russia and Japan are introduced to the weapons of modern war. Hilarity does not ensue.
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Imperialism and Racism lead Imperial Russia down a path of one of the biggest self owns in military history.
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Sources: The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05 The Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
Once upon a time a group of idiots with an airsoft rifle attempted to invade a country. Hilarity (and prison sentences) ensued.
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Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53557235
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/05/the-invasion-of-venezuela-brought-to-you-by-silvercorp-usa/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mind-blowing-story-ex-green-beret-who-tried-oust-venezuela-n1201981
Once upon a time there was a man who loved cannons.
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Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/magazine/the-man-behind-iraq-s-supergun.html https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160317-the-man-who-tried-to-make-a-supergun-for-saddam-hussein https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/02/10/who-murdered-gerald-bull/bfce6e11-7dff-4964-864d-29db5e02753b/
The one time a downed Japanese pilot started a small civil war on a remote Hawaiian island.
correction A pronunciation guide was used for the word Niihau, which said it is nee-how. Others have told us this is incorrect and it is instead Nee-ee-how.
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sources: https://www.historynet.com/the-niihau-incident.htm https://timeline.com/this-japanese-wwii-fighter-pilot-thought-he-crash-landed-on-a-deserted-hawaiian-island-wrong-635d898b08d0 https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/niihau-incident-hawaiian.html https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/the-niihau-incident/
Folks, it turns out Nazis are in fact, bad.
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CORRECTION A correction is needed regarding our answer to the question from the Legion in this episode. We originally thought the Army Esports team was just a Esports team staffed by soldiers who got a sweet gig. We were wrong. It is staffed by Recruiters. We officially retract our statement and encourage everyone to troll them until they go away. Children should not be targeted for military recruitment
Sources: The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006 https://www.dw.com/en/the-wehrmacht-and-the-holocaust-on-the-battlefield/a-53366016
Stupid sexy Flanders.
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Sources: DeVries, Kelly (2006). Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and Technology. The Boydell Press.
Grab your butt ladles and get ready for the most epic tale of revenge in history.
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Sources: Allyn, John. 47 Ronin. Tuttle Books. http://chushingura.biz/ http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/chushinguranew/CHUSHINGURA.htm
The Wagner Group is what happens when money, strange neo nazi cults, and proxy wars have a baby.
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sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-wagner-group-mercenaries-where-operate-2018-4 https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/10/diplomacy-and-dividends-who-really-controls-the-wagner-group/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/russian-mercenaries-wagner-africa/568435/
Blow up Mount Rushmore.
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Joseph Medicine Crow became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe. He did this by counting coup, stealing an enemy's weapon, and stealing their horses....in World War II.
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Sources: Joseph Medicine Crow, Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/joseph-medicine-crow-last-crow-tribe-war-chief-dies-at-102
Dr. Nyri Bakkalian joins Joe to talk about video games, anime, and all of the things the west misunderstands about Japanese history.
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On this episode Joe and Travis dive into the history of the podcast's favorite cold war tank: the T-55.
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Joseph Beyrle is the only known American Soldier to fight within the ranks of the Red Army during WWII.
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Once upon a time there was a one eyed Canadian beserker who liberated an entire town on his own.
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Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal.
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During the Cold War the US dosed thousands of its soldiers with acid. Hilarity did not ensue.
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Nic Cage and John Woo flamethrower karate fight their way across the pacific theater of WWII.
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Creator of Popular Front Jake Hanrahan joins Joe to talk about how he got his start in Conflict Journalism, why westerners need to stop projecting their beliefs onto the revolutions of other people, and why frozen and lesser known conflicts demand your attention.
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The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the story of how they failed and died.
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/history/vets-want-fight-isis-can-learn-something-old-fights-african-bush https://ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-the-canadian-soldiers-behind-a-white-supremacist-military-surplus-store The Nation. Volume 222. New York: The Nation Company. 1976.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/03/soldier-of-fortune-marketing-for-mercenaries/475aac8b-ddce-4878-b732-77111bb70b67/ https://www.transcend.org/tms/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-soldier-of-fortune-magazine-contract-killers-and-mercenaries-for-hire/ https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/soldier-of-fortune-magazine-2016-02
We take a walk down white savior lane as Rambo kills more people than an atomic weapon.
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The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects.
This is the story of how the Armenian people struck back.
Sources: Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide. 2015.
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On this episode the gang eats a bunch of military rations from around the world and discusses some horrific missteps from the history of military food.
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For our 100th episode we answered questions from fans. Everything from the great tortilla debate to Jane Fonda tune in and listen to our probably terrible answers.
Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow, the Grand Army dies a slow death, and the Cossacks get blinged out as hell.
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Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind.
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Napoleon finally gets the battle he wants, leading to one of the bloodiest days in European history.
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Napoleon's famed Grande Armee finally begins its march towards war. Almost immediately his soldiers begin starving to death and shooting themselves before they even make it to Russia.
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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.
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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.
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Napoleon attempts to make friends, ends up making war instead.
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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.
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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.
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Sources for this episode: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-british-free-corps https://www.historyextra.com/period/first-world-war/the-british-soldiers-who-fought-for-germany-in-the-world-wars/ https://www.biography.com/news/edward-viii-wallis-simpson-nazi-sympathizers-hitler https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/american-nazis-in-the-1930sthe-german-american-bund/529185/
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.
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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://people.com/archive/unknown-soldier-vol-41-no-10/
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
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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.
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One of the deadliest men who has ever walked the earth probably was too short to ride a rollercoaster.
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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.
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Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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Sources: https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/St._Clair%27s_Defeat https://www.lawfareblog.com/remembering-st-clairs-defeat http://touringohio.com/northwest/mercer/ft-recovery/fort-recovery.html https://armyhistory.org/the-battle-of-the-wabash-the-forgotten-disaster-of-the-indian-wars/
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.
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Sources: https://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/01/army-officer-convicted-of-murder-in-afghanistan-to-get-another-look-by-civilian-court/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/without-a-doubt-in-my-mind-soldier-who-testified-against-clint-lorance-thinks-hes-guilty-despite-trump-pardon https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/jailed-ex-army-officer-has-support-but-not-from-his-platoon.html
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.
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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.
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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.
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Sources: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/06/102497181.pdf https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990801.2.111&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 https://books.google.com/books?id=fW_aeCJJ9J0C&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nkB_PDdXcC
Join Joe and Nick as they dive into one of the worst military defeats in history.
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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-defeat-teutoburg-forest-who-was-arminius/
*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.
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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 Cover up.
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.
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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-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-27185893
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.
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sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/crater https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/union-forces-stopped-at-the-battle-of-the-crater https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/the-battle-of-the-crater-petersburg-virginia-june-15-18-1864/
Robert Bales was a Staff Sergeant in the US Army. He is also one of the worst war criminals in recent American history.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Sources: Wings of Defeat (2007) Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Kamikaze Dairies: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. Kaiten Memorial Museum: http://www.kamikazeimages.net/museums/kaiten/index.htm
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?
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Joe Kassabian's Citizen of Earth is dropping as an audiobook soon, get this sneak peek here. It will be available through Audible or wherever else you get your audiobooks.
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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".
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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.
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Sources: "Crossing the Line" BBC 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2dCk3N8cE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/21/a-u-s-soldier-who-defected-to-north-korea-in-1962-has-died-his-pyongyang-born-sons-say/
Jenkins Robert. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. 2007.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/29/meet-the-four-americans-who-defected-to-north-korea-in-the-1960s/
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 that cannot be explained. What if Eli Roth created a gritty reboot of Kirby?
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-caused-these-men-to-eat-cats-and-candles-1685293458
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 conscription.
Thousands of developmentally disabled Americans would be killed.
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This is the story of how Pepsi, yes that Pepsi, ended up controlling the world's sixth largest submarine navy.
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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 had to be before you started drinking boot polish to get drunk.
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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 journalistic freedoms show everyday Soviet citizens the horrors of war for the first time.
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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 Najibullah, a mass murdering psychopath.
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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 arms. This all changes when an alcoholic, drug addicted, womanizing Congressman from Texas gets involved.
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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.
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Another Afghan head of state is assassinated and replaced with an even more insane despot. The Soviets decide if anyone is going to assassinate the President, it is going to be THEM.
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On part 1 of the Soviet Afghan War the Afghan King is overthrown leading to a series of coups, counter coups, and purges that would eventually set the stage for Soviet intervention.
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Sources for all related episodes: Gregory Feifer. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan Svetlana Alexievich. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War Lester Grau. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
You sent us questions and we answered them. Things got weird.
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On this entry into the DRS Joe and Travis read Max Boot's "Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan" from the Washington Post. It might just be the dumbest fucking thing ever read for the show.
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On this episode more inbred people beef over turf, English longbowmen drowned French knights in shallow puddles, and Joe mispronounces everything to do with England.
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sources: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8648068/Battle-of-Agincourt-ten-reasons-why-the-French-lost.html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03044181.2016.1236504
Joe, Nick, and Rich tell the stories of Sergeant Stubby, Chief Dog Sinbad, and Corporal Wojtek BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS.
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sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/chief-dog-sinbad-cheerful-brave-coast-guard-mascot-ww2.html https://www.navalhistory.org/2019/03/21/sinbad-the-dog-behind-the-legend
James McCormick tricked the Iraqi government into buying tens of millions of dollars worth of dowsing rods to find bombs. Hilarity did not ensue.
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On May 4, 1970 Members of the Ohio Nation Guard gunned down four innocent people at Kent State University. Nobody has ever been held accountable.
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On Part 2 of the Easter Rising Home Rule is put on hold while Irish Republicans remember the words of Wolfe Tone: Launch an uprising while the British Empire is distracted fighting a foreign enemy.
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On this episode we dive into some of the history that caused the 1916 Easter Rising like stealing Irish freedom with the Act of Union, extracting wealth, colonialism, and outright genocide.
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Sources: Tim Pat Coogan. 1916: The Easter Rising
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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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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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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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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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
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
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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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/
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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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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Travis takes Joe through the history of Yemen and the nearly constant foreign meddling in it's affairs that brought us to the Yemeni Civil War. He also takes us through the coalition arrayed against the Houthi uprising and how the US and other western powers support rampant war crimes. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Or TeeSpring: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show on twitter: @lions_by Joe: @jkass99 Travis: @Haycraft_travis
On this episode Joe talks to @russiawithoutbs a writer, army veteran, and the closest thing to an expert on the Donbas War that would come and hang out with us.
He tells us the story about the truth of volunteering to fight in Ukraine, the inefficiency of the Ukrainian Army, and the impact of propaganda in a regional conflict.
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On this episode Joe and Nick dive into the age of the Crusades...kind of.
The People's Crusade was an mob put together by a starving, homeless monk to retake the Holy Land without food, water, weapons, or military training.
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Sources: Extra History, the First Crusade. The First Crusade. A New History
On this episode Joe and Nick talk about the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to ever sink an enemy ship in combat.
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On this episode Joe and Rich talk about Yukio Mishima, one of the greatest writers Japan has ever produced, as well as a psychotic devotee to the Japanese Emperor who created his own right wing militia based around working out in thongs and fucking.
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On this episode Joe is joined by Army Veteran and one of the characters from The Hooligans of Kandahar, Mike Huang to talk about how a number of people ended up volunteering for the German Army during World War Two from a guy who ended up becoming a US Army Green Beret, the son of the founding dictator of Taiwan, and a poor Korean conscript who ended up fighting for everybody on accident.
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Joe is joined by Travis Haycraft again to talk about the countless misconceptions people have about Kurdish history, the Peshmerga, the SDF, and we talk about the hilarious story where a group of religious conservatives accidentally joined a communist militia to fight ISIS.
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On this episode Joe is joined by Justin Rose. Justin is a Marine and US Army Veteran and host of the Everything is Awful Podcast to talk about the dangers of Historical Revisionism and the bastardization of facts in the name of politics. PragerU manages to do all of these things in Youtube videos that last less than 5 minutes.
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On this episode Joe is joined by Riley Dosh, a recent graduate of West Point, to talk about one of the most heinous crimes of the Iraq War, the rape and murder of Abeer Al-Janabi by US Soldiers.
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We aren't done quite yet! Joe is joined by Travis Haycraft as Travis takes us on the wild, insane, and criminal world of Iraq's weapons procurement program during the war and it's effects.
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On the 4th part of our Iran Iraq War series Joe is joined in the studio by Tom to talk about the insanity of the Battle of the Marshes and that one time Iraq built an entire road out of corpses.
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On part 3 Saddam's army quickly falls apart as the Iranians launch wave after wave of screaming volunteers at their trenches.
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Sources for all related episodes:
Karsh, Efraim (2002). The Iran–Iraq War: 1980–1988 https://www.iranchamber.com/history/iran_iraq_war/iran_iraq_war1.php Farrokh, Kaveh (2011). Iran at War: 1500–1988. https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/media/csis/pubs/9005lessonsiraniraqii-chap05.pdf https://nuke.fas.org/guide/iraq/cw/az120103.html https://iranprimer.usip.org/resource/basij-resistance-force https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2011/09/09/the-pasdaran-inside-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps/ Timmerman, Kenneth R. (1991). The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq
On this episode Joe and Nick fly off the deep end talking about the origins and stupidity of one of the internet's favorite military conspiracy theories.
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On our first halloween special Joe is joined by true crime and serial killer junkie Rich to discuss a Bela Kiss, otherwise known as the "Hungarian Vampire" who turned his victims into pickles, before running off to the Eastern Front of World War One, never to be seen again.
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Joe is joined by Historian, writer, and host of the War Stories Cast Angry Staff Officer to talk about the 100th Anniversary of the Meuse Argonne Offensive and the development of the US Army from a stick wielding joke to a super power.
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On this episode Joe is joined by Nuclear Anthropology PhD student Marty Pfeiffer. Marty takes us through the terrifying history of man's relationship with nuclear weapons from insane chicken powered landmines, nuclear artillery, and all the times the US military almost nuked itself. Follow the podcast on twitter @lions_by Follow Joe @jkass99 Follow Marty @Nuclearanthro
On this episode we close out the war of 1812 with style! Joe is joined by Flynn while Nick is away and we discuss the ending to the most pointless war in American history (psych!)
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On part II of the War of 1812, America bites off more than it can chew as it is kicked out of Canada and begins to burn down Canadian towns in anger. The American Militia is routed from the fields of Bladensburg, leading to the burning of the White House.
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It's our first ever series so buckle up as we talk about the beginnings of the War of 1812 between a newborn America and British Empire.
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On this episode we discuss the Battle of Jadotville, a little known battle during the Congolese Crisis that pit a company of badly armed Irish UN Peace Keepers against an Army of african tribesman, French Foreign Legionnaires, and everyone else looking for a paycheck.
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On this episode we discuss the Haditha Massacre carried out by members of the US Marine Corps during the Iraq War in 2005 and the cover up that followed.
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On this episode we discuss the Great Emu War while simultaneously offending the entire nation of Australia probably.
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On the most depressing episode yet Joe and Nick talk about the Liberian Civil War and a insane, blood drinking, heart eating warlord by the name of General Butt Naked. A man who ran screaming into battle totally naked while leading a legion of sundress wearing, clown wig headed, cannibals against his enemies.
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On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Battles that never actually happened! From the Great LA air raid to the Battle of Kransebes, where Joseph II Austrian Army supposedly routed itself. We apologize for the audio issue that pops up about 20 minutes in. We have no idea what is causing it, but we are working to fix it. If anyone knows what might cause random static through the microphone please let us know!
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On our 10th episode we go to our Emails to answer all the questions that have been sent to us over the last couple of week. Nick finally admits reenacting is cosplay, Joe loses his damn mind about Vietnam, and Nick nearly has a heat stroke.
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Episode 9 brings us our first guest! Tom is an Officer in the United States Army Armor Corps, history graduate, and anonymous shitposter on twitter. On this episode Joe and Tom talk about the stupid history of German WW2 armor development and how it went from revolutionary to comically insane in a short amount of time. We also discuss the myths and legends surrounding German tanks and battlefield prowess that has managed to follow the soldiers of the 3rd Reich for nearly 100 years after their fall.
We end the episode talking about the stupid things we manange to get ourselves into on #natsec twitter and how we have both managed to have a run in with General Abrams.
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On this episode we talk about the Bonus Army! A rag tag Army of unarmed WW1 veterans to marched on DC to demand the money they were owed. If you think the government has a level headed reaction to this you must be new to our show. Joe gets emotional and goes on a communist rant while Nick fails in his attempts to reel him back to reality.
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On our seventh episode we jump back in time to The Great Game. The British Empire invades Afghanistan and puts the most truthworthy idiot to ever be promoted general in charge. Nick has a hot take on the smell of 18th century men's genitals and Joe is left question what the hell a post-prostitute ritual bath is.
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On this episode we talk about the Second French Intervention in Mexico. France makes an attempt at regime change in Mexico. Hilarity ensues.
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On this episode we talk about Pavel Grachev, the Russian Minister of Defense who ordered the storming of Grozny while piss drunk during the First Chechen War.
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On this episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys we talk about Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his Soviet House of Death during the Battle of Stalingrad. Nick chugs Vodka to keep his horrible illness at bay long enough to record, we decide that the glorious Soviet Union would never lie in battle reports, and come to the conclusion that the Wermach was little more than Star Trek Red Shirts at this point of the war.
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On episode three we talk about Bill Millin, the Mad Piper of Sword Beach and how sometimes you just have to fight fascism without wearing underwear. We touch on Nick's time storming the beaches of Normandy for the glory of My Chemical Romance and the joys of waterlogged wool clothes.
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On this episode Joe and Nick talk about Field Marshal Douglas Haig who led the majority of the UK's efforts during WW1, including the brutal battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.
Remember kids: Just because you're bad at math doesn't mean that you too may one day lead millions of men to their deaths.
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