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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

*PREVIEW* The Human Terrain System

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we revisit the 2000s warrior-scholar fixation of famously-unproblematic guys like David Petraeus with the advent of the Human Terrain System, or what you might politely call "military anthropology." Is it ethical? No. Did it work? No. Was it run by someone named Dr. Montgomery McFate? Yes. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-133688496 We've got merch available! Check out our store here: llbdpodcast.com/

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0:00.0

Now, obviously, these scientists were not going to be in the military.

0:04.7

Instead, they would be civilian contractors.

0:07.4

Through one of two companies, though the vast majority were contracted through B.A.E.

0:12.9

Systems.

0:14.1

An absolutely massive arms company involved in everything from bribes to allege industrial spying to, of course, personal

0:21.0

payments to Augusto Pinnichet amongst other things.

0:24.7

If I'm not mistaken, help me out here.

0:27.8

BAE is British, what is the aerospace electronic systems.

0:31.8

Didn't they build the RG31?

0:34.4

I don't remember.

0:35.1

I'm pretty sure that the BAE systems are among many, many, many, many other things are the people who built the RG31. I don't remember. I'm pretty sure that the BAA systems are among many, many, many, many other things are the

0:39.9

people who built the RG31 MRAP, which, or maybe one of their subsidiaries from South

0:44.8

Africa built it.

0:45.6

But yeah, they suck.

0:47.8

Boer Industrial.

0:50.2

It's from South African land systems, but designed by BA.E.

0:55.4

I was not wrong. I love what I'm not wrong. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So the vehicle that I was in the most often in Afghanistan was designed by the same people. Wow. I really hate that something that B.A. design absolutely saved my life one time. I wish you hadn't. It's the military version of

1:13.4

design by a Virgil Ablo. It was like, yeah, he was in the room and it's kind of like kind of has

1:18.9

his input, but really it was a load of guys in short short short short. One thing I find really funny,

1:22.5

though, about the RG31 as a side note really quickly is that like we could literally the radio

1:26.5

would dump and fuck up so bad with the antennas that we would wind up having more luck talking on our man

1:30.7

pack radios to the other cars or other vehicles in the convoy versus the power antenna

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