Episode 43 - The Kargil War

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On this episode Joe and Travis talk about the Kargil War of 1999. You may have never heard of it but it involves nukes, ice fortresses, World War One style frontal assaults up a mountain, and ice axe murder. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter: @lions_by Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20090327120658/http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/war_in_kargil.pdf Amarinder Singh (2001). A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/k/Kargil_War.htm

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0:00.0	I'm Henry from Fortress on a him.
0:02.0	We're a leftist veteran podcast that aims to expose the reality
0:06.6	of the US military's many wars abroad,
0:09.4	the horror that it puts on the people that live in those places and the damage that military
0:15.8	service does to Americans. Congress has abdicated its role giving oversight to
0:21.5	the military. Fortress on a Hill aims to change them.
0:26.2	Fortress on a Hill.com, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.0	Now, back to lions led by donkeys.
0:34.0	What you heard right behind you were the sound of Bofers guns directly targeting the top of Tiger
0:41.0	Hills, the prelude to the final assault.
0:43.2	Also going on simultaneously are multi-barrel rocket launchers
0:46.9	also attacking the same positions on Tiger Hills. Fireballs and smoke fill the air. The sound of the boffers guns does not stop for the next 13 hours.
1:07.0	But right now the guns are providing covering fire to the men making their way up to the top.
1:15.0	Nearly 3,000 men from three different regiments are getting ready to put their lives online.
1:24.0	Men from the two Naga and 8th Sikh regiments take position on the right and left flanks of Tiger Hill. The 18 Grenadiers hide at the rear where Pakistan does not expect anyone to be.
1:43.0	Later this will prove to be a decisive manner.
1:45.0	Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the lines led by Donkeys with me today
1:50.0	as seemingly always recently is Travis.
1:53.0	Howdy.
1:55.0	Yeah, and so you came,
1:58.0	I want to say this is your idea.
2:00.0	Yeah, you slid in my d.
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