Ooooo, if Angry Staff Officer was getting mad at armor not having infantry with it for Syria I can't even imagine what he is thinking nowadays looking at how stupid the Russians have been.

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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Episode 163 - The Pancho Villa Expedition Part 1: Dueling Race Wars

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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Episode 20 - Meuse Argonne Offensive Ft. Angry Staff Officer

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. 
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Episode 37 - Yemeni Civil War Part 1: An Outsourced War

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/

Episode 40 - The Assholes of Holocaust Denial

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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sources:
https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/dowsing-for-bombs-maker-of-useless-bomb-detectors-convicted-of-fraud.html
https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/ie/Janks_Empirical_Evidence_for_Dowsing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html

Episode 50 - Dowsing for Bombs

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

Episode 68 - The Kamikaze

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

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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Episode 96 - French Invasion of Russia Part 2: Worst Enlistment Ever

Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind. 

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Episode 99 - French Invasion of Russia Part 5: Moscow is Decadent and Depraved.

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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*UNLOCKED* There is No Life or Nourishment in the Meat

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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Sources: 
https://ospreypublishing.com/t-54-and-t-55-main-battle-tanks-1944-2004-pb

Episode 108 - The T-55: A History

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 20 - Meuse Argonne Offensive Ft. Angry Staff Officer

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