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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Episode 9 - German Armor Fails of WWII Ft. Tom

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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Episode 12 - General Butt Naked and the Liberian Civil War

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. 
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Episode 19 - Nukes LOL Ft. Marty Pfeiffer

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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Episode 21 - Halloween Special

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

Episode 52 - The Battle of Agincourt

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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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m16-rifle-went-war-against-north-korea%E2%80%94and-succeeded-vietnam-not-so-much-32252
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/m16-vietnam-failure
https://fenixammo.com/pages/history-of-the-223-remington-cartridge

Episode 67 - The M-16 Rifle: A Dumb History

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/

Episode 91 - Paul Mahar

*UNLOCKED* Iron Sky ft. Francis Horton

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.

https://www.popularfront.co

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Episode 103- Popular Front Ft. Jake Hanrahan

Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal. 

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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder/
http://fair-use.org/national-anti-slavery-standard/1866/04/14/robert-e-lee-his-brutality-to-his-slaves
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/arlington-bobby-lee-and-the-peculiar-institution/61428/
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221

Episode 105 - Robert E Lee Was a Monster

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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Episode 132 - Luigi Cadorna: Redux

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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Episode 19 - Nukes LOL Ft. Marty Pfeiffer

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