Biggest Military Screwups In History
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With the Paris Olympics coming up. Could we get some Olympic History videos coming up?
What happend little big horn.
As opposed to on purpose?
Cries in Australian over the emus
people keep saying that--but who died?
@@richardsamuelgustavo 0.01% of the emus
@@MustacheCashStash125 and no people so hardly a blunder
Hundreds of thousands of birds against just a few soldiers with a lewis gun... The emus were actually effectively dealth with when the government offer bounties for each emu kill
28:55: "There's no way he can beat off 80,000 men."
*(Hysterical laughter)*
"Grow up! You know what I mean!"
Those courageous fisherman that defended Spain from the British army. 😂
It's Gibraltar
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401what are you talking about
@@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401it's spain lol
The landing craft landed a few yards into Spain, and there certainly was no tension which led to fishermen beating, as it were, Royal Marine Commandos. A non-story that needed to be embellished further with wildly exaggerated animation ….
@@4002corbe Damn, you definitely understand sarcasm.
I bet you're fun at parties and get invited a lot.
Since you mentioned mistakes or accidents, here is the one that occurred in Yugoslavia.On April 1st one German reconnaissance plane such as ME 110 C was doing a regular reconnaissance flight. During that day there was a foggy weather, and the plane landed on one of the Yugoslav airfields. Since Yugoslav air force had ME -108's, ME-109 E's and Dornier Do-17 bombers they landed there. And when the German crew come out from the ME - 110 E, they were captured by the Yugoslav army, and the markings were repainted to be a Yugoslav ME-110. Then like I mentioned, on April 6th 1941, Germany invaded Yugoslavia, by bombing Belgrade. During that day, the Belgrade was bombed in 3 ways. The first way was in 6 AM, when most of the citizens were sleeping, the second one was at 10 AM, and the third way was in the evening. But the intensity of bombing the Belgrade when the Yugoslav flak and air force somehow managed to repel the attackers. Also when the ME - 110 was captured and repainted to have Yugoslav markings, what happened was that couple of days after WWII has begun in Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav flak also by accident shot down the mentioned ME - 110 E fighter. After the attack on Belgrade on April 6th 1941, Yugoslav air force decided, to bomb German troops stationed in Austria and Hungary. They were the first who bombed Vienna, and Graz (believe it or not). And it was effective attack, since, there were some delays in German advancing's towards the Balkan peninsula. The Yugoslav air force had white cross with red, and blue insignia. And believe it or not, when the Yugoslav Dornier Do-17 had these markings of mentioned white cross, even some German soldiers and officers though that it was one of their planes, when these planes were flying. And when there was inevitable the capitulation of Yugoslav army, and also air force, Yugoslav crew destroyed some of the airplanes, so they could not fall in the enemy hands. After that, some of the pilots fled to serve in Allied, and Soviet air force, while some had to stay and to join the Yugoslav resistance, and also to fly on Spitfire MK V, and MK IX, since these Spitfires were delivered by British, and by Soviet Union, they received Yak 3 planes. And like you have mentioned that the bridges were destroyed, even these Yugoslav Do-17's bombed some of the German troops, but when bombs fell, they didn't hit bridge. And when Axis forces occupied Yugoslavia, in some parts of Balkan peninsula that was held by German army, Germany decided to build bridges. But at the end of the war they had to blow up the bridges. They even blow up one in Novi Sad at 1944, when the Germans were retreating from the advancing Soviet, and also Yugoslav partisans. Nowadays, there are the pillars of that same bridge on river Danube, between Petrovaradin fortress, and Novi Sad.
Also there was something as a maybe as a screw up or deception, or miscalculation (I'm leaving you to think what it was). What happened was that there was a battle on river Neretva. And this battle was considered as the Battle for the wounded, since there were a lot of wounded Yugoslav partisans. This battle occurred between February and March 1943. And what happened is that the commander of Yugoslav partisans (and after the WWII the Yugoslav president), he ordered to be blown up one bridge on river Neretva. In this confusion, Germans believed that Josip Broz Tito will come back to some previous positions so they can capture Yugoslav partisans, and Tito. But instead of that, Josip Broz Tito gave on order to build a pontoon bridge, which they did. And that's how were the German troops were deceived, believing that Tito will come back. And on pontoon bridge, the wounded's were evacuated. After WWII, believe it or not, on same year, and almost at similar time in different locations in Yugoslavia, during the late 60's there were two movie crews doing a filming of movies. One was US crew working on movie Kelly's Heroes, and the other movie was Yugoslav movie crew working on movie The Battle on Neretva.
When you showed these Sherman tanks on 42:12 , I remembered the scene from movie Kelly's Heroes when Sherman tanks are coming out from the tunnel, and they are attacking German troops. Since I mentioned movie Kelly's Heroes, believe or not the whole movie was filmed in Yugoslavia. Also the mentioned tank scene, when tanks are coming out of tunnels was filmed on mountain Fruška Gora, which is near city Novi Sad (today's Serbia). Also the same Sherman tank that was used by Donald Sutherland in the mentioned movie is in city Novi Sad in the Museum of Vojvodina. These were some historical things, dear friends.
Počivaj u miru Donalde Saterlende, legendo.
Rest in peace Donald Sutherland, legend.
Tl dr
@@kremepye3613 What do you mean by that?
I think its crazy that so many militaries screw up by accident.
And what’s crazier is how many screw up on purpose
Type shi🗿
@@favio194I came here to say that.
if you do the research you'll find that very few military operations go 100'% according to plan , the best field commanders just improvise and go along with the fluid situation and keep trying to achieve their mission goals
@@favio194they do that? When?
Underestimating your enemy is a rookie mistake. Yet it’s happened repeatedly for thousands of years
This was almost a coherent thought.
> _Underestimating your enemy is a rookie mistake._
You're partly right - because it can happen to professionals as well if they get too cocky... 🙂
My stepdad was a Marine involved in Desert One. He said that President Carter wanted all the military service to get recognition of the mission that he involved the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines together. Well, they had different radio/communication language that they became confused and lost. For example, "LZ". It can mean landing zone or loading zone. Depends on what branch you were in. When they ran into a sandstorm, chaos ensued. Communication failure.
.... battleship LST? Aren't those landing boats?
Also missiles from E-boats? You mean torpedoes?
Landing Ship Dock. Yeah, I was like "that ain't a battleship
Theres alot of mistakes in this channels latest content . I fear with more views and popularity they’ve become lazy and idle and began to make mistakes that us military history freaks pick up on straight away ! Its somewhat a let down 😢
Yes LSTs were landing boats. Obv not battleships, but they are armed. Just a minor speaking error there. And torpedoes are technically a form of missile, as missile refers to any projectile in general. And it wouldn't be unfeasible for E-boats to be armed with rockets.
Better overestimate than underestimate
But not much better. There are several cases of overestimating the enemy and not engaging when the reality was they were much weaker and could have been neutralized then and there.
There is a great book by Geoffrey Regan, "Great Military Disasters: A Historical Survey of Military Incompetence", that makes a great taxonomy of military incompetence, covering all factors, from being too reckless to being too unwilling to engage, or stuff like having a commander that is great at personal combat and likes it, leaving the rest of the troops without leadership because he had to be on the frontlines.
"Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it"-Wiston Churchill
It's wrongfully attributed to Churchill.
The quote was well known before WW2.
@@Emanon...so was Churchill lol
@@Emanon... Santayana may have came up with it but Churchill made it iconic😂
@@stonebay2111 I fail to see your point and the "lol".
He didn't invent the quote.
@@psychedelicsoul3260 The fact that he knew the quote meant that it was iconic already.
Stop giving credit where it isn't due.
6:07 😂 Gibraltar looks like a bullpup rifle!!
23:42 "who do you think won?" This was, by far, the best oucome pissible for that scenario. If the goal was to take control over all of Vietnam, then the Vietnamese military won. If the goal was just to get more territory, then the Chinese military won. If the initial goal was to take control of Vietnam, but was quickly changed to a "simple" land grab, then both sides can legitimately declare victory without losing face.
The Chinese withdrew back across the border - they took no new territory. The stated objective after the campaign was to cause Vietnam to withdraw units from Cambodia. This happened, but the Vietnamese still took Cambodia.
@@Carlton-B thanks for the added context
To be fair, there isn't only: "no plan survives enemy contact".
Because, as those of us who grew up in the 1980ies still know, there's always also: "I just _love_ it when a plan comes toghether..." 🙂
Hey simple history, if you want a video idea can you maybe to a video on Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichirō
He was an ww2 Japanese general and saved the lives of 20,000 Jewish people.
4:51 a bit like the parachutes the US use now
8:49 lord Raglan lends his name to the Raglan sleeve, as it was invented by his tailor because lord Raglan had only one working arm to make it easier for him to dress and undress due to him only having one arm, some totally useless information there for you
I thought the D-Day rehearsal story was going to be about the large number of soldiers who drowned in the exercises
Forgot Soviet-Afghan War
13:37 The image of the Vetterli 1870 rifle is fantastic. In fact the soldiers arrived from Italy trained with the Carcano 91 but in the colonies they were rearmed with the Vetterli...
Better than the sa80’s the brits had 😖🫣
Karansebes... _Benny Hill theme playing_
Fun fact: the first ever military was an army of 2 against 1. The 2 cavemen wanted the 1 caveman's bigger cave. And then like Most militaries before 20th century, the 2 man army turned on itself and 1 ruled them all. He became the first King ever.
Excellent work
I'm gonna guess america invading itself and taking almost triple digits in casualties from friendly fire didn't make the list. 😂
Hey, we meant to do that. Don't ask why. Don't ask questions.
Pride goes before a fall
7:45 I think you meant to say “The British Ministry of Defence” not the “military of defence” 😅
Can confirm. 😉
Hitler & Napoleon has entered the chat
I’d never heard about china trying to come in and 3rd party Vietnam like that. And still get starched 🤣
Polish American volunteers in France, The Blue Army. Please
We need more weird history vids
12:11 always the leftwing f'ing up😂
The British Empire getting destroyed in the Pacific in 1941 and the Japanese taking their nurses as the spoils of victory will never be lived down.
"will never be lived down."... already has been lived down... and making 6th gen aircraft with each other.
Lol , who cares?
Spoils of war. Brits did worse.
@@SteenHard-mu3qf We didn’t genocide the American Indians, and then steal half of Mexico, but then again the Latinos are taking it back now.😁
@@SteenHard-mu3qf You don’t look hard dude, but you do look very wrinkled, and very old.
Also LST is lightly armed and no match for E boats . Some E boats have cannons. LST isn't a battleship by long shot.
Biggest 1 was france surrendering in 6 weeks and being occupied 😂😂😂😂
More so France believing the Germans would follow the exact same battle plans as WW1 when the Germans simply went around the Maginot Line instead of trying to go through it
@@aztec0996 The so called best army in the world lost 200k men and 1.3 soldiers surrendered and went to prison😂😂
You have to blame also the British for running away while the French was holding the line. Then fleeing across the Channel instead of transporting to South in France to combine force with the French, to form another defence line.
Why would they stay in France at that time? A capitulating nation that had already had its defenses shattered, or walked around rather... if the British stayed, many of their soldiers would have died for literally no reason, as at that point, the fall of France was already well in motion.
@@staywokecuhhBritain had plenty of time to fill the Maginot plans gap. The Brits just didn't want to fully commit. They arrived late in France, left early. Had they been stationed earlier, capitulation would've been avoided. Regardless, the majority of the French fleet remained under ally control, they sunk the fleet that betrayed Free France, and a lot of troops went on to fight in Africa and elsewhere during the war.
France's surrender is overblown by medias. There's been more than one party and multiple reasons that led to it. But France even occupied, fought, while others were drinking beer and enjoying freedom in the US.
Hms ocean is retired now.
I think this is my favorite channel rn!! 😎
The kopis that the army is holding on at 28:16 is held in reverse. The sharp part of the blade is now facing them. It's in the small details ;)
The main problem for The Delta Force mission
Chuck Norris was not there
By the time of Crete, enigma hadn't been cracked
23:40 how did you get up the tree so quick?
My request is Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Army (those who have entered the Persian Empire) vs Hannibal Barca and his Carthaginian Army and the mercenaries in a pitched battle in an open flat battlefield.
8:16, uhhh why is Cyprus on Crimea?
Wei isn't a clan, it's a foundation
The failed German air raid has always driven me crazy. The weapons being in boxes absolutely blew my mind cuz I just do not understand why they’d do that. Especially since the airmen did have their hands occupied with shroud lines WHICHHHH I also don’t understand why anyone ever (I’ll excuse the first like 2 jumps in each nations history)would think that not having any way to even kinda control the fall would be okay
Thanks!
The Germans took Crete, although Hitler never let the parachutists drop again yet the 25% casualties were a small cost for taking the island, the screw up, I think, is far more on the English side. I would like someone to explain why Hitler and popular perception is against the German effort.
More advertising please... i almost could watch the video
Wasn't Lime Bay where Steven Spielberg shot "Saving Private Ryan?"
whos here under? an hour?
When it comes down to natives against invaders, as in New Zealand and Vietnam, there is also an element of home field advantage. People defending their own homes have some advantages against an invader.
Around 27:12 the rant about Indians using outdated weapons but you did say the bulk of the damage probably happened from the Air Force. Are the aircraft from ww2 too? Even so, ww2 planes is far superior to no planes.
How about Operation Tootsie Roll?!? My grandfather was involved in it and I can't find any information on how the miscommunication happened...
The ethiopians used sword and shield against the italians? Isn't that too primitiv?
Beside the fact that imperialism by itself is a mistake, the Italian mistake was trying to invade a country without knowing why it was uncolonized.
Your long comment option is not working. Solve the issues about that
Attacking Russia
True lol
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21:21 giggity
It's like it shouldn't be that much of an embarrassment to lose to Vietnam, they're just invincible. Don't annoy Hanoi
The Spanish civilians "held off" the British at the beach. That sounds like a stretch. 😂. Like saying you lost a fight to a toddler because you let them have cookie at 10 o'clock at night after they spilled candy all over the kitchen
You could of had an entire hour long video on how much George Armstrong Custer was a total screw up.
I don't think the narrator understand just how hard effective communication & navigation was on the battlefield before radio communication & GPS was available. He puts a lot on "bumbling" by the commanders.
I wouldn't say that the Invasion of Crete was a screwup, at all. The result of the battle was that the germans captured the island, with less casualties than the defenders. It was so, that the allies actually copied the paratrooper concept.
The allies had already begun using paratroopers before Crete
This is Russia right now in Ukraine
💀 are you serious stop trying to be biased 😂
You think Ukraine is winning even with western support??? Have you seen how much territory Russia has taken
@@yourtypicalexploiter1019he isn't being biased. Russia is struggling a lot in Ukraine right now due to their terrible logistics and technology. Before you call others biased please check your sources if you even have any.
38:24 "Unintended" desastesrs? Oh dear ...
Can you please do the tv hijackings in 1987 November 22 1987 max headroom incident
I’d love it if you could cover some Cuban history it’s rich in historical events, some major ones are that we have ties to Africa because of the TCST (a third of Cuban pop was African att) that was directly caused by American investors paying the Spanish and co opting with the US gov to send Africans to Cuba to farm sugar for American citizens, this cultural connection and FC’s belief in an equal people later led us to go fight the apartheid and back the MPLA or Angolan freedom fighters (the people mason was fighting in Bo2’s first mission) against American apartheid support
Awesome 😎
Look up the battle of jinsale and the French invasion of 1796 in Ireland. 2 disasters
I haven't watched the video yet, but I wonder if the Afghanistan withdrawal is in this
Treaty of Versailles
Weird they don’t talk about operation Cottage
3:33 That is the North West not the North East
8:18 Why is Cyprus in Crimea?
since when did history only composed of war and fights
Karansebes is kind of a modern myth, there are no sources out of the 19th century that confirm more than 150 men were lost during a minor incident - the loss of 10.000 men is an Austrian legend…
At 1:46 is the E-boat Petrol territory a inside joke i missed or a typo and should it be Patrol territiory?
Clapton sands disaster the Germans didn't use missiles.
Thank you for your interesting informative video. Forgive me for making a suggestion however I think you should add that Vietnam also successfully fought of the Mongol empire. You do not need to add any more details just the fact that they did it,
U.S.S. Liberty, as a USN regular armed forces member start there.
Why blurred?
Pretty sure we invade Spain every year during the summer
Don't forget many super powers tries to take over Vietnam. The Mongols tries to take over it failed than the Japanese, French, American and Chinese.
Fubar
Theres a few issues in this one …. I dont think the germans were using ‘missiles’ unless your referring to small arms fire ? And at 7:54 the british ‘military of defence’ ? The MOD - MINISTRY OF DEFENCE you mean ? These kinda of little mistakes for such a popular channel really disappoints me
Am I the only one who noticed how many April 26th,27th, 28th were in this video??
me when the war....laugh now
Yet again simple history cooks us a beautiful vid
But as a compilation. Again
While disappointing us that their "uncensored" videos are paywalled on a patreon, when they can always post them with 0 problems on rumble.
@@noahboat580 true sadly
@@TheRealMcChickenPickleswhat if they delete an "uncensored" video on their patreon, and that version is lost media because we're not allowed to reupload their content on TH-cam?
@@noahboat580 idk what would happen
You definitely should have dug deeper into German attack on Crete. Germans did win that battle and they were outnumbered almost 2 to 1 and they were attacking prepared defenses not over water but making aerial assault of a scale that had not been ever done before so if you want to talk about military screwups you should take a look on how allies managed to lose that battle.
The battle of Crete was like German D Day.
Is TH-cam seriously censoring animated history lessons??
Very good job dudes and well done!! Congratulations 991.71% yo throughout the 4th sizzling patriotic week of said joyous June y'all. Biggest 1 was France surrendering in 6 weeks and being occupied. 😂😂😂😂
Operation tiger Clapton sands
The Hill speaks Amharic, lol.
Catch 22
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Yuan Shao was a failure in the 3 kingdoms
Of course they won they had the high ground it's the most powerful military move of all time😂
23:42 who won? Usually in war no one wins, especially the little people, only the rich and powerful elite class win.
Vietnam was great funniest war's 😅 omg it's shouldn't be funny but omg it's all so funny fisherman too haha....
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