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Lions Led By Robots 21: Angel Slop
Looking into the watershed of Anno's creative process we're going clanker-light and implicit trauma heavy as we discuss editorial strategy, AI prescience, and how all those NERV console graphics are actually explaining how Joe is related to Madonna.
2025-11-19 15:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Istanbul Snowball fight
In the early days of English ambassadorships to the Ottoman Empire, an increasingly petty collection of grievances among European envoys and Ottoman dignitaries set the conditions for a single errant snowball to incite an anti-English riot. Witness the story of the snowball that got a bunch of English guys' beaten with oblong...
2025-11-16 19:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS: The English Pirates of the Mediterranean
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 plunderi...
2025-11-12 09:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Kars
Towards 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 cathol...
2025-11-10 09:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS: The Insane Story of Jonathan Idema
Jonathan Idema, a former Green Beret (kind of) turned conman, grifter, and media personality created a freelance, private torture prison in Afghanistan all while managing to convince several people in multiple governments that he was legit in one of the weirdest stories from America's Global War on Terror.
Sourc...
2025-11-05 13:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Ap Bac
Early 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 ...
2025-11-03 07:18:11 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Siege of Przemyśl
In the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attempt to hold off the Russian Imperial Army in what became known as "Austria-Hungary's Stalingrad"
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Graydon Tun...
2025-10-27 10:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS: 2025 Q&A
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2025-10-22 11:55:58 +0000 UTC View PostCome say Hi at the Crisis 2025 War gaming Convention!
Joe will be hanging out with the Trench Crusade folks on November 1st at the Crisis 2025 War gaming convention in Sint Niklaas, Belgium. Come play Trench Crusade, shoot the shit, bring books to sign, or just say hi!
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2025-10-21 11:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 4
The conclusion to our series on the Texas Revolution
YEEEEEHAAAAW
2025-10-19 20:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 2
Our favorite Georgian journalist, Omar Tsotsoria, continues the story of the Gurian Anarchist Republic.
2025-10-15 14:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 3
It's the one with the Alamo.
Part 3/4
2025-10-12 13:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS: Soochow, The Drunk, Racist, Marine Corps Dog *LIVE IN GLASGOW*
Soochow was a small, racist dog adopted by US Marines stationed in China. They taught it to drink rum and coke from a bowl, eat cigarettes, and, most importantly, survive years in a Japanese POW camp.
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The History Detectives. China Marine Jacket. PBS
Eric Niderost. A Memorable Marine Mascot. WWII His...
2025-10-08 13:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostTICKETS FOR GLASGOW LIVESTREAM TONIGHT!
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2025-10-04 10:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
EARLY EPISODE: The Texas Revolution: Part 1
The 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.
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Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Randolph Campb...
2025-09-28 21:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe History of Georgia and the Anarchist Republic of Guria: Part 1 (feat. Omar Tsotsoria)
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EARLY EPISODE: The Gordon Relief Expedition
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EARLY: Operation Vengeance
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Lions Led By Robots 19: Get In My German Entry Plug
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2025-09-10 18:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A form!
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2025-09-08 12:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY: The Siege of Alesia
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2025-09-08 06:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostBONUS EPISODE: The Battle of Eniwetok
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 ...
2025-09-02 22:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEARLY EPISODE: The Great Siege of Gibraltar (feat. Josh Boerman)
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History of Armenia 44: Victor Maghakian
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.
EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Lepanto
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Lions Led By Robots 18: Beasting It
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 Unze...
2025-08-19 22:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
