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* GambitPileUp: ''Everyone'' involved in Operation Red Dog planned to use the planned KKK/Neo Nazi-controlled Republic of Dominica as a base for drug smuggling. Dominica is only 290 square miles. They were all arrested before they could compete over turf.
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* ArtisticLincenseHistory: Someone the show calls out and tries to correct. Particularly in bonus episodes based on movies.
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* ArtisticLincenseHistory: ArtisticLicenseHistory: Someone the show calls out and tries to correct. Particularly in bonus episodes based on movies.
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* ArtisticLincenseHistory: Someone the show calls out and tries to correct. Particularly in bonus episodes based on movies.
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* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain]." Also Joe's hatred for Ohio.
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* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "And then [person from the topical episode] hit them with the Uno reverse card." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain]." Also Joe's hatred for Ohio.
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** In the series on genocide, particularly the one on the Cambodian Genocide, Joe initiated a rule for "Animal Facts" whenever things get too heavy.
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** In Operation Red Dog, the weird group of American and Canadian KKK members had a plan to invade Grenada and do a coup. When Grenada's politics changed, they used the same plan to go after Dominica.
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** Brutally deconstructed in the "Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht" episode.
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* AcceptableTargets: The hosts have no qualms cursing out Nazis, racists and Rhodesians. [[CreatorProvincialism And in Joe's case, Ohio.]]
** Also invoked whenever the show deals with the Russian or Soviet military, as it inevitably features horrible conditions.
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* WinterWarfare: Napoleon's invasion of Russia; Russia's invasion of Finland.
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* WinterWarfare: Napoleon's invasion of Russia; Russia's invasion of Finland. The Carpathian Mountains campaign of World War I.
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** The Great Emu War is a cross between this and a PyrrhicVictory. As Joe and Nick noted, the Australians didn't lose any men and some emus were killed, but the emus and [[InSeriesNickname Birdolini]] stopped the Aussies from a strategic success.
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* GeneralFailure: Luigi Cadorna and Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf got their own episodes dedicated to their failures as strategic and tactical commanders. Enver Pasha was fingered as the sole cause of not only the Ottomans' entrance into World War 1 but also the titanic mess-up that was the Caucasian Front, which (amongst other things) proved a justification for the Armenian Genocide.
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* ChestOfMedals: The podcast's mascot is modeled after a real-life example, and several have shown up.
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* ChestOfMedals: The podcast's mascot is modeled after a real-life example, specifically Idi Amin, and several have shown up.
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* CurbStompBattleCurbStompBattle: All over the place, but special mention goes to the Toyota War.
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** There's also the possibility that the Nazis accidentally broke the sound barrier three years before Chuck Yeager's confirmed supersonic flight.
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** Discussing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet ("The Rocket Plane That Melted Its Pilots") was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row related to genocide, and the only people harmed by it were literal Nazis.
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** Discussing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet ("The Rocket Plane That Melted Its Pilots") was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row related to genocide, and the only majority of people harmed by it were literal Nazis.
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** Discussing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet ("The Rocket Plane That Melted Its Pilots") was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and the only people harmed by it were literal Nazis.
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** Discussing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet ("The Rocket Plane That Melted Its Pilots") was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing related to genocide, and the only people harmed by it were literal Nazis.
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** The recent episode on the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and the only people harmed in it were literal Nazis.
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** The recent episode on Discussing the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet ("The Rocket Plane That Melted Its Pilots") was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and the only people harmed in by it were literal Nazis.
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** Of note is the recent episode on the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, as it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because the only people harmed were literal Nazis.
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** Of note is the The recent episode on the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, as Komet was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because the only people harmed in it were literal Nazis.
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** Of note is the recent episode on the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, as it came after 4 episodes in a row discussing genocide, and was considered a welcome change of pace by Joe because the only people harmed were literal Nazis.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The long drawn out death of President James Garfield.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The long long, drawn out death of President James Garfield.
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* ClosestThingWeveGot: Rwanda didn't have an air force to invade the Congo in Operation Kitona, but it did have a civilian air fleet. So the military hijacked the planes.
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* ClosestThingWeveGot: ClosestThingWeGot: Rwanda didn't have an air force to invade the Congo in Operation Kitona, but it did have a civilian air fleet. So the military hijacked the planes.
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* ClosethThingWeveGot: Rwanda didn't have an air force to invade the Congo in Operation Kitona, but it did have a civilian air fleet. So the military hijacked the planes.
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* ClosethThingWeveGot: ClosestThingWeveGot: Rwanda didn't have an air force to invade the Congo in Operation Kitona, but it did have a civilian air fleet. So the military hijacked the planes.
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* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain]."
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* RedOniBlueOni: Joe is the blue to Nick's red. Inverted when other hosts are on, as they're more prone to DeadpanSnarker.
* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain]."
" Also Joe's hatred for Ohio.
* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain].
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* ClosethThingWeveGot: Rwanda didn't have an air force to invade the Congo in Operation Kitona, but it did have a civilian air fleet. So the military hijacked the planes.
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* EnemyMine: The hosts regularly discuss this, or as they call it, "The Grand Unifying Theory of 'Fuck That Guy.'"
** Discussed at length in the Castle Itter episode, where American soldiers, mostly French prisoners of war in Austria, and the Wehrmacht teamed up to fight a Waffen SS death squad.
** Discussed at length in the Castle Itter episode, where American soldiers, mostly French prisoners of war in Austria, and the Wehrmacht teamed up to fight a Waffen SS death squad.
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: What led to the Silmido Mutiny.
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* WhatAnIdiot: NaturallyOften invoked due the premise of the podcast, naturally. In the episode about the sinking of the ''USS Indianapolis'', for instance, the hosts are particularly aghast at the stupidity of the guy who decided that it was ''no big deal'' that a ship traveling unaccompanied through a war zone hadn't shown on schedule, and who subsequently marked her as arrived anyway and didn't alert anyone.
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[[caption-width-right:350:He ''must'' be a competent leader, he's got medals, and ''sword''!]]
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** Also of note is Luigi Cadorna, whose philosophy of warfare is summed up in his episode using the trope name almost word-for-word, and the troops under his command had one of, if not the highest operations tempo in World Ware One.
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** Also of note is Luigi Cadorna, whose philosophy of warfare is summed up in his episode using the trope name almost word-for-word, and the troops under his command had one of, if not the highest operations tempo in World Ware War One.
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** Also of note is Luigi Cadorna, whose philosophy of warfare is summed up in his episode using the trope name almost word-for-word.
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Soldiers--and some officers!--of the Italian army under Luigi Cadorna's command ended up shooting some of their own officers after being pushed too far by Cadorna's operations tempo and disciplinary methods.
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Lions Led By Donkeys is a weekly history podcast largely devoted to laughing at military blunders, incompetent leadership, and generally covering wild stories from the front lines. Hosts Joe Kassabian and Nick Cassanova, along with the occasional guest-host, also cover subjects such as the history of animals in war, tasting some [=MREs=], and reviewing movies related to military history, however tenuous their connection to reality.
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Lions Led By Donkeys is a weekly history podcast largely devoted to laughing at military blunders, incompetent leadership, and generally covering wild stories from the front lines. Hosts Joe Kassabian and Nick Cassanova, along with the occasional guest-host, part-time host Rich, and a cast of guest-hosts, also cover subjects such as the history of animals in war, tasting the history of the T-55 and the M-16; taste some [=MREs=], and reviewing review movies related to military history, however tenuous their connection to reality.
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* BreatherEpisode: Joe tries to include "palette-cleansers" after particularly nasty stories.
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* BreatherEpisode: Joe tries to include "palette-cleansers" after particularly nasty and/or depressing stories.
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* TheNeidermeyer: Luigi Cadorna basically hated the common soldier, and believed that any and all problems with his army's performance and moral could be solved by some kind of punishment or another, from withholding rations and denying soldiers leave or rotation off the front lines, to literal Roman-style decimation.
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* TheNeidermeyer: Luigi Cadorna basically hated the common soldier, and believed that any and all problems with his army's performance and moral morale could be solved by some kind of punishment or another, from withholding rations and denying soldiers leave or rotation off the front lines, to literal Roman-style decimation.
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* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]."
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* RunningGag: The aforementioned idea that the CIA is the 3rd host, "It gets worse!" Sign-offs with the format of "Remember, don't [action related to the content of the episode]." "You do not, in fact, 'have to hand it to' [insert historical villain]."
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* TheNeidermeyer: Luigi Cadorna basically hated the common soldier, and believed that any and all problems with his army's performance and moral could be solved by some kind of punishment or another, from withholding rations and denying soldiers leave or rotation off the front lines, to '''literal literal Roman-style Decimation'''.decimation.
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* AttackAttackAttack: All over the place, but the World War Two Soviets are particularly of note for their repeated human wave attacks.
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* AttackAttackAttack: All over the place, but the World War Two Two-era Soviets are particularly of note for their repeated human wave attacks.
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* AttackAttackAttack: All over the place, but the World War Two Soviets are particularly of note for their repeated human wave attacks.
** Also of note is Luigi Cadorna, whose philosophy of warfare is summed up in his episode using the trope name almost word-for-word.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The Russians were so racist toward the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War that not only did they guard only the most obvious crossings of the Yalu River, apparently thinking the enemy was too stupid to attempt a crossing anywhere else, but were easily duped when the Japanese army began building a bridge across in full view of them as a distraction from the '''nine''' other bridges being built elsewhere along the river, allowing the Russian army to later be easily flanked, taking more than twice the number of Japanese casualties in the ensuing battle.
