The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict. Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
361 episodes transcribedSkorzeny launches the mission to rescue Benito Mussolini from a ski resort, it does not go well. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledb...
Otto Skorzeny was Hitler's favorite Commando during WWII, he was also a total loser. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys S...
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 Ho...
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...
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 ste...
The conclusion to the story of Witold Pilecki Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Get Joe's new book: https://www.amazon.co...
Pilecki plots his escape when it becomes clear that the allies will do nothing about the crimes being committed within Auschwitz. Support the show: h...
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. Th...
Rome kills 80,000 of their own soldiers because of a personal beef. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Theodor M...
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...
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...
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. Support the...
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...
Spicer Simson rides into some of the dumbest combat of all time, somehow wins. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources:...
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...
Part 3/3 Custer leads his command to their deaths. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Thomas Powers. The Killing...
Part 2/3 The American invasion of native land gets off to a bad start. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeysSources: Thomas P...
The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains. Part 1/3 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys...
The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sourc...
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothin...
