@@DarkWarchieff It doesn't, until it does. Wait for a big enough war, or a conflict affecting developed nations, and the death penalty will magically reappear on the menu, just like it did in Nuremberg.
Apparently it's a common occurrence during world wars that American just go balls deep from charging machine gun nest alone to a single guy losing his squad and becoming so bunker down that the germans who were fighting him were convinced that they were fighting 5 squads of commandos and decided to go around.
@@jessicakrios9382 *P R O P A G A N D A* Not saying stuff like that never happens, but lets not start believing that America has some higher rate of that than anyone else lol. America dominates the narrative of the world wars, and especially in the first world war, they barely did anything, yet will act like they were a vast contributor. Even with the second world war, there's a complete over-exaggeration of their contribution (mostly the military contribution in Europe). As someone from the commonwealth, I'm *very* cynical about US claims about the world wars, as Britain and the commonwealth get massively sidelined by the American narrative - despite the UK alone doing as much, if not more than the US
@@jessicakrios9382 still trying to figure out why the hell the americans even attempted omaha beach. hands down one of the most stupid things in war history.
Yea some Aussie's going to jump into a trench with a bolt action rifle and spend 30 seconds shooting the same guy with six powerful cartridges at point blank range.
Snow speeders were not meant as a combat aircraft or weapon but was reset, re engineered to use under certain battle conditions. Speeders could be modified for jungles, deserts, forests, artic-snow conditions. The speeders main goal was for moving, unloading cargo, large shipments.
Less of war trick, more of a postwar one. After the landslide victory in Battle of Kleidion, Byzantine Emperor Basil II grouped up 100 Bulgarian soldiers and blinded 99 of them, and the only remainder? One eye gouged out; for he has to lead his friends back to their commander. Bulgarian Emperor just f*cking scared to death by this. This happened to 15,000 POWs. One of the biggest dick moves in human history.
The Afghans did a similar (but far worse) thing to the British during The Retreat from Kabul in 1842. A column of 16,000 was attacked and slaughtered except for an army surgeon who, when asked on his return where the army was, replied: "I am the army!"
I heard that (not sjre if this is actually true) during the war between Egyptians and Persians, Persians brought cats to the frontlines as their first line of defense. The Egyptians, who considered cats sacred animals, refused to attack and surrendered
That1RussianDude I know all this but the question asks for dirty tricks and it is a dirty trick since their nation is the only one where one can pull such a strategy
Not really a Russian original tactic either. One of the oldest strategies when retreating is to burn farmland, and destroy the bridges and railroads so your opponents can’t use them for troops and supply lines.
I get so triggered, EVERY DAMN TIME! I accept the second world war. BUT NOT THE DAMN FIRST WORLD WAR! THAT WAS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S FAULT! NO DISCUSSION, MY POOR COUNTRY ALREADY GET A LOT OF HATE!
@@Kili_1701 WW1 Germany is a tragedy. The Versailles Treaty treated Germany so harshly and unjustly. Made the German people desperate and angry which allowed Hitler to take power promising salvation and ultimately kicked off WW2. If the allies had shown some leniency WW2 might have been avoided altogether. And all of that horror because a few Serbians fucked with Austria-Hungary and they wanted to show strength in response. Fucking madness.
Not dirty, but clever as all hell. During China's War of the Three Kingdoms, a General well known for his intelligence and cunning was resting at a town with only a token force when an enemy army approached. The general ordered his men to open the gate and hide while he sat above it playing his flute. When the enemy saw the general sitting in front of a defenseless town they immediately suspected a trap and retreated.
Another smart trick they use was when Zhuge Lianh challenged Zhou Yu when Wei and Shu had an alliance agaisnt Cao Cao of Wei when they had a naval battle. Zhou Yu was able to spread discontent and lies into the enemy camp which the 2 main naval commander was executed by cao cao While Zhuge Liang stole 100k arrows from cao cao disguising his boats in fogs tricking Cao Cao army to shoot arrow at Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang covered the boats with hays so they could collect them all.
Before I watch, my favorite is either barbarians peeing on spikes, infecting people, Or marines storming panama while blaring the song Panama, while they lost coordination, we won
"Everybody died, men, women, and children. The children were tortured four days on end. The men were hung in the streets as decoration. And the women were set on fire" *In the background* Dun da da da dun dun da da dun dun dun dun
I see no mention of one of the mist pivotal battles in Japanese History. Okehazama. Oda Nobunaga convinced one of his villages to surrender and throw a feast for the Imagawa, while he took his forces into the mountains to flank them. His timing was perfect as a powerful thunderstorm rolled in which covered the sound of his charge. That one victory changed the course of history and turned a poor countryside Daimyo into one of the most feared and respected men of his time. Also hated. Especially by Buddist monks XD Which led to yet another dirty trick. Incinerating and massacering the most holy site for the Buddist monks. And then there was him marching his ashigaru with lit matchlocks, and of course his obliteration of the Takeda forces using volley fire and field defenses. Seriously. The man used tactics that were utterly insane to others.
It's less than they were insane tactics and more than they were tactics that were not considered "honorable" by the japanese daimyos. his use of rifles is an example, firearms where not an unknown concept to the japanese at the time, but Nobunaga is the only one that put them to use, actually training his troops on their use, how to fire on horseback etc. until he used them everyone else just took them for absurd toys imported from the west "Look at the westerner weapons and their silly gunpowder! they fight with fireworks! Hahahaha!"
Speaking of a) Oda Nobunaga and b) Buddhist monks, the fortress of Ishiyama Hongan-ji. Stronghold for the Ikko-ikki buddhist monks and a pain in the ass for Oda. Part of the monks' defensive systems for the fortress were a whole bunch of clay pots buried in the surrounding mud. Seems kinda dumb, but when Oda's forces came charging on horseback, all of the horses' ankles got caught in the pots and SNAPPED considering the speed they were going at. Ingenious and dirty (eventually oda finally captured it, burnt it to the ground, and its foundation lives on today as the base for Osaka Castle, built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
@@billhicks4127 Actually, from my understanding, he was one of the first Daimyo to actually get guns. The Shimazu (Technically one of their vassals) got them first and after arranging a marriage to the dutchman who brought them learned how to make the screws needed to produce more. The Oda were one of the first to trade for them from the Shimazu.
In terms of the event at the time, it was more than likely considered a dirty trick but maybe not now. During the Hussite Wars (if you’re unaware, the Hussites were from Bohemia, the modern day Czech Republic, and were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church due to ideology. Imagine proto-Protestants, one things they did being preaching in Czech. This launched wars to “cleanse” Bohemia from heresy but they eventually gave up until a thing called the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 where the Czechs threw an Austrian diplomat out a window because they didn’t like the Holy Roman Emperor’s policies he was trying to enforce which then sparked a happy little thing called the 30 Years’ War where 8 million people were killed. After this, the movement died out due to Catholic influence and more Protestant churches.), Bohemians would use wagon forts. When outnumbered, they would set up wagons usually in square formations and put all of their forces in them. Riflemen (arquebuses in terms of this period, “primitive” muskets.) would fire at incoming infantry while Bohemian halberdiers, spearmen and other infantry would follow up with a counter attack by charging out of the fort with assistance from artillery. Behind said infantry were the cavalry that were also in said wagon fort and you can see how despite being so simple, it was so effective. And so I conclude my essay on this note: Wagenburg >>>>
Also, don't forget that they set up the wagons usually on hill or somewhere where they had terrain advantange, which usually caused the enemy cavalry to slow down and let the Bohemians attack. Oh, and let's not forget about their singing. It is said they sang so loud and clear the enemy thought there were thousands of men instead of a few hundreds. I believe they once scared the enemy away with the singing :D
7:53 I heard of something similar, that you shouldn’t approach dying suspects, because there’s apparently something called the ‘dead man’s grip’ in which a dying person will attempt to strangle you, and not let go even if they are shot or something.
This is absolutely a thing. Don't approach dying combatants if they can feasibly lurch to their feet or launch themselves at you. Even if they only have a few moments left, it only takes a moment for someone jacked on adrenaline to crush your windpipe.
My fav thing about the bat bombs is they super worked and would have been devastating. They worked so well that every test facility burned to the ground from escaped bats.
He also burned a miles wide swath through Georgia, looting the crops and cattle he needed and burning the rest. When he came across a textile mill or similar building, the workers (including young children) would be rounded up and shipped to the north so they couldn’t make stuff for the Confederates. Also, only the mill workers were shipped out, so if mom was a mill worker and you weren’t, you were taking care of yourself. Same goes for the opposite scenario, where you’re a mill worker and mom isn’t.
There's the classic trick of stabbing your arrows into a rotting corpse before a battle to make wounds be more likely to get infected (and to deal extra poison damage).
Actually told to me from my uncle who worked on an airbase during the war. During Vietnam, to get information from the Vietnamese war prisoners, US troops would take two prisoners up into a helicopter on base. They would fly the heli straight up a hundred feet up or so. A higher up would have a translator on stand by before, without notice or hesitation, kick one of the prisoners out of the hovering copter. They would make the other prisoner watch his ally fall and die before asking them "give us some info or you'll end up like him". Even if they were given info, they would kill them the same way anyway. Once that was all said and done, they move onto the next pair. My uncle just watched in fear. Haunts him to this day watching the cleaning crew scrubbing the blood and bits off the helipad.
2:17 That is literally a fighting game technique. Tune the opponent’s reflexes to counter one tactic, then abruptly switch to another that counters the counter when they least expect it.
But it started as a real fighting technique... And then a wartime technique.
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a really nasty story in a book comes to mind: back in the early days of the USA, some people "generously" gave free blankets to native Americans...which has be intentionally contaminated with several diseases! essentially biological warfare disguised as charity... -that was in a book called "flesh and silver". one of the villains used "indian blanket" as a password for his computer. the OTHER main villain tried to enslave a bunch of people using mercenaries PRETENDING to be aid workers! "helping hands foundation"...
I love how you can complain that poisoning wells and water sources is a war crime. It's so civil considering that two forces are killing thousands of people of the other faction. It reminds me of games where people complain about cheating and stuff.
The African campaigns were actually pretty civil. At least compared to the clusterfuck going on in Germany at the time. The stakes were a lot lower in the colonies, and it was still a war of movement. The German commander mostly just wanted to evade the British, tying down troops so they couldn't go fight on the western front.
@@huuamai8151 Poisoning water sources, especially in arid area, usually aren't really reversible, at least not in short term. That shit legit caused legendary blood feud. You won't win locals that way.
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 However, pointing out that it's your sign, dipping a cup, and taking a drink while saying "Don't let the Germans see you doing this".....
In hunger games I believe the rebels dropped support packages with parachutes and a friendly tinkling tune on the fleeing aristocrats which exploded on contact. I think that scene was based off this. Haunting really
13:42 Im fairly sure the only reason the plan to send incendiary bats into Japan didn’t work was because the nuke finished at basically the same time as the bats, making them obsolete. But I could be wrong
I read that after the testing area was burned down the army refused to continue and the project was given to the marines who actually had success, but as you said the Nuclear bomb was ready for use so they cancelled it. Using animals in war is cruel!
U.S. troops in WWII realized that M1 Garands made loud pinging noises when reloaded. Thus, to draw out enemies, they would load an emptied magazine into the gun and release the clip. When Axis forces looked for the guys reloading, all troops would focus fire on anyone who peeked out of cover.
While the Garand ping is audible, it's not really noticeable from any significant distance... especially not after your unprotected ears have been blasted by the various noises of battle. Even if someone *did* happen to hear one GI's rifle go ping, said GI has about a dozen guys on either side of him who *didn't* go ping yet.
The one that I know of was Operation Mincemeat. The British in WW2 dressed up a dead Welsh homeless man as a intelegence agent and sent him to the shore of Italy with a briefcase of falsified information for tactical deception. Although the relative success of the trick is disputable, Sicily was saved much faster than anticipated with fewer casualties.
I’d say the dirtiest war tactic would be having two of your best men raid your primary targets safe house on the Georgian-Russian border, having them escape with loads and loads of information on the target, and when they arrive at the LZ to extract the information, you shoot them, cover them in gasoline and light them on fire. Rip in peace Ghost/Roach 😔✊
At the Battle of Red Cliffs, the massive armies of the northern warlord Cao Cao marched south to reunify China one and for all. His army consisted of a land contingent and a sizable fleet sailing down the Yangtze River. On the other side were the armies of warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei. Despite their combined strength, the southern coalition was outnumbered. Despite Cao Cao's numerical advantage, his men were not used to travelling by boat, so to improve stability, Cao Cao had his ships chained together, turning them into one giant floating platform for his army. Seeing this, Sun Quan's general, Huang Gai came up with a brilliant strategem to defeat Cao Cao's numerically superior force. Huang Gai led his small force of ships up to Cao Cao's forces, claiming to want to defect to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was happy to receive Huang Gai, hoping he'd bring valuable intel and thus help him deliver a swift victory. However, as Huang Gai's ships approached Cao Cao's fleet, Huang Gai gave a signal and his men set their own ships alight and abandoned ship right before aiming them at Cao Cao's fleet. Huang Gai's fire ships completely took Cao Cao by surprise as they crashed into Cao Cao's fleet. As Cao Cao was coming from the north, the situation was further exacerbated by the fact that the wind was blowing northward, thus blowing the fire towards the rest of his fleet. Before long, Cao Cao's entire fleet was aflame, and most of his men drowned. At this point, Sun Quan and Liu Bei counterattacked his remaining forces on land, forcing Cao Cao to retreat, and completely stopping his southward expansion, and his plans to reunify China.
For anyone that dosent know that the Monash was the first Australians general to lead Australia’s first men before that they where used as cannon fodder by the British he was a revolutionary man and that is why his portrait is on the Australian $100 bill or note depending where ur from
sgt montgomry !!!! What I don’t understand is why it’s considered so dirty? They did the same thing and minus the few weeks of poison bombing which probably killed very few, the main battle only lasted 90 minutes most likely saving more lives than taking
In ancient Egypt, cats were held in high regards. According to one of their goddesses, the punishment for killing a cat was death. So when Persia invaded Egypt, the Persians had cats as hostages at the Battle of Pelusium, and the Egyptians refused to fight and surrendered.
I don't know if this actually happened or not, but the dirtiest trick I ever read about was the strategy of the empty castle. This was Ancient China, mind you. Basically what happened was that this one general inside a palace was warned that an opposing nation was coming for his palace, now seeing that he lacks the force to defend his castle he had the insane idea to open all the gates make a lot of loud noise to generally make it seem like they were having a festival. The reasoning behind this was that if the enemy saw that they were celebrating, then that must mean that they're REALLY confident that then can defend their castle. As the enemy general was approaching the castle, he heard the music, saw all the gates were open and thought to himself, "hmm, this is either a trap or they're really confident that they'll win this skirmish" so he turned back. I might not have brought the story any justice it deserves, but the story is brilliant and ballsy as hell regardless.
This was a story in Sun Tzu's art of war. The gates were opened but they weren't having a festival, rather the general, who was well known to be a great and devious tactician, welcomed the enemy with open arms. The enemy general, fearing a trap in lieu of the reputation of the general before him, chose not to attack.
@@jjy941 Now that I read up on it again, I fucked up the story, lol. It was a battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu. Cao Cao being the devious tactician in the story.
Another tactic was simply to open the gates and *invite the invaders in.* Congratulations, all your troops are hidden in your palace and can strike at any time, and the enemy thinks you're surrendering.
Subutai Baatur. Just about every campaign he fought had the dirtiest and most cimplex set of tricks I've ever read throughout the entirety of Military History but my favoirite is definitely the Great Kwarezmian Raid. Subutai had his Mongol force of roughly 20,000 face up against a coalition of Russian and Hungarian forces of 80,000. Instead of fighting head on, Subutai retreated for 9 days though he always made sure that his army was to be only a few hours ahead of the opposing vanguard. During their retreat Subutai had his men make toys to leave behind then slowly release prisoners to give the impression that they were an uncoordinated force of families and peasant soldiers. At the end of the eighth day, Subutai had managed to stretch the opposing army so much so that the Vanguard could no longer be supported. In the morning of the ninth day, Subutai turned his entire army around and launched a brutal strike against the coalition. 80,000 men turned into a long line of 1,000 - 10,000 man sections and were easily crushed by the Mongol horde. The rearguard caught wind of what was happening and decided to set up a defensive position over by a near by hill and sat there for three days more as the Mongols surrounded them and bombarded the fledgeling army with a constant hail of arrows. Naturally, the remaining force attempted to call for a ceasefire and go home without a fight. Subutai accepted this surrender and once the coalition aemy had left the hill the Mongols attacked however Subutai ordered that a gap in the line be present. This made the remaining force's morale to break and attempt to flee rather than fight and were easily cut down. TL;DR Subutai bamboozles and wins against a force four times larger than his own
Suprised the battle of san jacinto was not mentioned. Texas won its independence from Mexico by wakeing up very early after the Mexican army got drunk and partied. We slit all their thoughts as the slept, winning the battle in 18min. Mexico surrendered and retreated across the Rio Grande. Remeber the Alamo.
@@ianmoseley9910 lol the United states wasent even involved. Texas was its own country before it decided to accept the United States Invitation to join the US. Try again.
I have one. During WWI, Winston Churchill wanted America to join the Allies, so he used many hundreds of people as human shields, on a ship alongside a supplies ship. The Germans found out about this, and warned the Americans not to go onto that ship, because they knew it was alongside a supplies ship, and they would have to torpedo one of the ships. The Americans either didn't find out or ignored them, so they went on anyway, and the civilian ship, much to the German soldiers' horror, was sank. The name of the civilian ship? The Lusitania!
I remember seeing this purple haired lady turn her capital ship around at the enemies mobile fob and engaging the hyperdrive without the inhibitors activated resulting in the fob being torn in half and the debris from the crash destroying the entire enemy fleet. It’s like the one thing that everyone in the entire galaxy had agreed to never do.
idk if this counts but bush invaded iraq after 9/11 and they recently found out that the evidence bush used was faulty, so therefore bush invaded iraq for no reason becides oil :P
My teacher once told me this story which I can’t remember much of but he and his men were hiding behind trees and stuff and so were the enemy, so it got really quiet (btw no shots were fired yet) and he said “BOOM” really loudly and the enemy took off.
One of my all time favorites was by Subotai (I'm probably spelling that incorrectly). Subotai was one of Ghengis Khan's generals and was leading a force into Europe where a group of Balkan nations made an alliance to fight off the invading Mongols. He then convinced one of the nations to betray the other nations by giving them wagons full of valuable gold. The nation retreated back to their home land and allowed Subotai to absolutely destroy the other nations. However, the gold weighed down the wagons, and Subotai's army easily caught up and slaughtered their allies and took back all their Gold.
The time the Armenians dropped pallets of flour on a mountainside side battle against the Azeris. It was psychological warfare, the Azeris thought it was a chemical weapons attack, were routed and slaughtered. Wish I posted in the thread
During Operation Phantom Fury, insurgents would jack their men up with adrenaline, so it would take half of a U.S. Marine's clip to kill 1 insurgent. I have a friend who fought there, and he said he had to stab an enemy 4 times in the skull to kill them.
I mean, yeah. Strategy is built around what you expect the other people to do, so being good at that and then going drastically outside of that will get you a win.
Not exactly a dirty trick, but in ww2, the Germans acted like they were going through North and central Belgium to attack France. When the French troops got into position to defend Belgium, they moved through the Ardennes in the south and got to the coast, cutting off most of the French army. France, being defenseless, surrendered after the capture of Paris.
You know that iconic *DING!* sound the M1 Garand makes once you empty the clip? The ones you hear in FPS games? Germans soon figured out that the *Ding!* sound meant the US soldier was out of ammo and used it in their favor to advance or retreat once they hear it. The US soldiers soon realized this and began to intentionally makes the *Ding* sounds on their rifles to trick the Germans into moving from their cover.
USA putting gallons of lsd and acid in local water supply back in Vietnam god just picturing fighting a war when a dragon is between you and your shit paper lol.
>play Three Kingdoms Total War >see poor faction with little to no food >trade food for money/land >cancel food trade once money/land has been received laughingCaoCao.scroll
Like half of these can be summed up by: "Did you know that sometimes, commanders DON'T smash their armies together like kids with action figures. Sometimes, they ACTUALLY THINK! What an idea, right guys?".
Not sure which idea came first but at 1 point, the US wanted to nuke Tokyo. Some ambassador stopped the president by expressing its cultural significance. Hence America decided to firebomb it instead... *America 100*
I’ll add one. Tom Barry, genius guerrilla leader in the Irish war of independence, had his small flying column under siege in a small village in the south of Ireland by the British. He knew the Brits were short of resources, so he blew a trumpet as if a huge army was about to storm out of the village. The Brits then retreated, expecting a bloodbath. Then the few Irish troops were able to sneak out and regroup. Genius.
The Whermacht killed and starved to death civilians and prisoners by millions on Eastern Front. Not better than the SS (which became a large force later).
In theory, anything fatal would be found before it made it to hitler. But Estrogen could be snuck in no problem. Though it making Hitler more agreeable just seems kinda like an 11th hour thought.
Battle of Pelusium was a war between Egypt and Persia where Egypt is defending and Persia is attacking. At that time Egyptians believed some animals were sacred (e.g. cats) and would never hurt them in any way shape or form. The Persians knew this and abused it, the 7000 Persians were equipped with cats for Shields against 50000 Egyptians. The Egyptian soldiers were worried they would harm the cats and did not attack. The Persians won.
rwdplz1 At least our ships did not fire while under a white flag
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oh, i just remembered a story in a book, "cloak and cipher" about how codes and cryptography have changed history: during the siege of Dunkirk, someone noticed that the Germans were using a simple strategy: first, they would use several different colors of "very" signal rockets to signal the artillery to fire, then sued a different set of rockets to signal "stop firing", then their troops would advance. so he used HIS "very" rockets to MIMIC the "fire" command, causing the German troops to get hit by their own artillery! he did this several times, and the Germans stopped attacking AT ALL for the rest of the night!
I would not say the Art of War said getting surrounded was a GOOD idea, but rather that a cornered and desperate fighting force should not be underestimated.
@7:53 So, the 'paste words into robot voice' is hard enough to listen to, then you add the bad edit audio pops and parts of a line from other audio... How hard is it to listen to the robot voice while copy/pasting or editing? Can you not change Sun Tzu's name from "Sun tee zed you", to 'sun soo' or 'sun sue' or 'sun zoo' so that we don't have to listen to this amateur garbage? I guess pumping 'content' out efficiently, is more important than being good at it. Unsubbed. Last video I watch from here.
7:57 was the tactic used in D-DAY. Basically, allies forced their troops to the beach. Imagine being stuck there. >On their front was the "impregnable" wall full of mines, barbed wires, and german machine guns raining down on them. >On their back was the rough seas of the English Channel. >Staying put was out of the question, they're being continuously bombarded by coastline artillery and mortar defenses and strafed by German Lutwaffe. Other boats are also continuously arriving and soon the beach will be crowded. 2 choices: turn back and swim across the cold waters back to england or Move forward and kill the enemy.
Best one I know, ancient China. City under siege by overwhelming odds, city wants to surrender but the commander doesn't want to give up, so he sends a message to enemy general saying "our ancestral burial mounds out side the city walls, plz don't desecrate them or we will lose hope and surrender" sure enough enemy general takes the bait and digs up all the graves, now the ppl in the city are pissed off and vow to never surrender. City commander then tells all his male soldiers to hide inside the city while all the women go to the walls and cry and scream for days, enemy army gets super drunk anticipating surrender any minute. City commander orders holes in walls to be dug, and one night when enemy army is partying, sends out 10 thousand oxen painted like dragons and with oil soaked cloth tied to their tails set on fire and stampede enemy camp followed by 5 thousand men dressed in black and gags in mouth to be quiet, almost all enemy army killed. Sneaky af.
13:38 the Russians came up with a relatively similar plan. Attach mines to dogs, only feed the dogs from bowls positioned under tanks so they are conditioned to look for food under tanks. Let the dogs loose on the battlefield so they run towards tanks and go under them, detonating the mines on the thin under armour of tanks, destroying the tank. Solid plan. Would probably have worked if the Russians hadn't trained the dogs using THEIR OWN TANKS! So the Russians released the dogs, they turned round and ran straight at the Russian tanks and blew up their own side.
I'm amazed this video didn't mention Cambyses II and the fact the literally threw loads of cats at the Egyptian armies, who worshipped the hell outta them, so they'd be too distracted to fight. And it worked.
i hate this one: Snipers usually leave their victims screaming in pain in bad positions in order to try and lure others come rescue them. Then they pop them too. I heard a story of US troops losing 4 men because they one by one went to an open area to try get 1 wounded man in cover.
Romans during conquest of Spain Romans: "Come discuss peace terms" Barbarians: "Ok" Romans: "stab stab stab" Also the King of Romania in their war of independence ordered his troops to dress up as Janissaries and went out to kill the Ottoman patrols. He then sent out people with the plague towards the Ottoman army to slow them down, and finally he had thousands of people impaled with stakes to make a forest and this finally stopped the Ottoman army. The King is called Vlad the Impaler/III
I forgot who it was but back in the times of the Romans, one army didn't even lift a bow or sword. Gifted the enemy troops some wine, poisoned it with cyanide and watched their entire military die.
The Narrowwater bombings in the Troubles in 1979 was also extremely devious. On a regular British army patrol, a 227kg fertiliser bomb exploded at the roadside, destroying a British truck and killing six soldiers. The IRA had studied the way the brits responded to incidents like this and correctly predicted that the British reinforcements would set up an Incident command post on the other side of the road, by a gatehouse. In the gatehouse was an 800kg fertiliser bomb that exploded and killed 12 soldiers. This was the single most deadliest bombing by the IRA in the troubles
In WW2 the Germans attached explosives to their guns, when they had to leave them behind. When an allied soldier tried to fire the gun, it would explode in his hands.
I was listening to the son of a WWII vet tell his dad's story. He said that when his father (American btw) was stationed in France, they used to raid the cellars for wine. One cellar in particular was being used by both the Allies and the Germans. During the day, the American troops would go down there and get their fill. During the night, the Americans would come out and give the all clear so that the Germans could come get their fill as well. One night however, he was supposed to move out to a new position. His squad waited all day in the cellar without drinking any of the wine. When night fell, they waited for the Germans to enter the cellar. They waited until the Germans were nice and drunk and then threw a grenade down there. Afterwards, there was complete silence, and they moved out.
That battle in La Hammel was done almost similarly to the battle in which Scipio fought Carthage in Iberia.. For one week straight he kept a routine of going out to the field, formed formations, march, stop, then pull back again to the camp. On the 7th day, before the sun even set, he told his men to have breakfast sooner, then sent out skirmishers to the Carthaginian camp, while his men finishing up their food and setting up formation. In the end the Carthaginian were completely unprepared and had to rushed out the men with empty stomach...
“People riding around in a g e e p”
Ikr
G E E P
I remember the times when me and my dad rode around in a *G E E P*
Its a Geep thing you wouldn't understand
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GEEP
"Let's make peace!"
[Fingers crossed behind the back]
Oh frick
Galaxy brain tactician
That's perfidy, a war crime that typically nets you the death penalty if you ever end up in the Hague.
@@ab-oj9wv The Hague doesn't dish out death penalties, the worst you can get is life in Vught Supermax, also in the Netherlands.
source: I live there.
@@DarkWarchieff It doesn't, until it does. Wait for a big enough war, or a conflict affecting developed nations, and the death penalty will magically reappear on the menu, just like it did in Nuremberg.
Germany: *creates and uses the flamethrower and chemical gases
America: *creates and uses shotguns
Germany: *You weren't supposed to do that*
Just some crazy Yankee jumps into your trench and takes out 3 guys with 1 shot
Apparently it's a common occurrence during world wars that American just go balls deep from charging machine gun nest alone to a single guy losing his squad and becoming so bunker down that the germans who were fighting him were convinced that they were fighting 5 squads of commandos and decided to go around.
@@jessicakrios9382 *P R O P A G A N D A*
Not saying stuff like that never happens, but lets not start believing that America has some higher rate of that than anyone else lol. America dominates the narrative of the world wars, and especially in the first world war, they barely did anything, yet will act like they were a vast contributor. Even with the second world war, there's a complete over-exaggeration of their contribution (mostly the military contribution in Europe). As someone from the commonwealth, I'm *very* cynical about US claims about the world wars, as Britain and the commonwealth get massively sidelined by the American narrative - despite the UK alone doing as much, if not more than the US
@@tommeakin1732 you also can't forget that the Canadians took their own Omaha beach with out the support
@@jessicakrios9382 still trying to figure out why the hell the americans even attempted omaha beach. hands down one of the most stupid things in war history.
3:14 “but the smoke bombs weren’t followed by gas but the Australians” Never been prouder of my country
If you feel too proud some day, just remember the emu war :-)
@@Lorian667 rip proud moment
@@bruhmoment1196 Well... every nation surely has its ups and downs. Or is it upside down in down under?
I imagine Austalians being loaded into cannons and fired at the enemy.
There's a reason we have a university named after Sir John Monash: he was a bloody intelligent man in both peacetime and war.
So get this guys
We make a giant piñata.
We gift it to the enemy.
BUT...there's a shit ton of our guys in there.
What do ya think?
I think this is a fantastic idea!
This is so original it better be a llama piñata
Isnt it the oddysey strategy
@@mohammedtaoun6087 nooooo, this is a giant pinata, dumdum
@@selma1250 who u calling dumdum im a doofus
When your chilling in your trench trying to avoid a gas attack but some Aussie hops in there and cranks off 6 shots into your chest
You'd be one sour kraut
I hate when that happens...
Yea some Aussie's going to jump into a trench with a bolt action rifle and spend 30 seconds shooting the same guy with six powerful cartridges at point blank range.
@@ufc990 It might have been a Webley revolver. Although, at that range, more than 1 round is overkill.
@@ufc990 he's talking about the Winchester 1897 slam fire shotgun
Dirtiest trick? The power harpoon (rope thing) used to take down AT AT walkers in the battle of hoth.
Snow speeders were not meant as a combat aircraft or weapon but was reset, re engineered to use under certain battle conditions. Speeders could be modified for jungles, deserts, forests, artic-snow conditions. The speeders main goal was for moving, unloading cargo, large shipments.
@@DavidLLambertmobile
You telling me AT-ATs were taken down by moving vans?
@@13Kr4zYAzN13 space vans, that is.
Dirtiest Trick? Thrawn. Period.
@@DavidLLambertmobile the power of space trucks. Nice.
Less of war trick, more of a postwar one.
After the landslide victory in Battle of Kleidion, Byzantine Emperor Basil II grouped up 100 Bulgarian soldiers and blinded 99 of them, and the only remainder? One eye gouged out; for he has to lead his friends back to their commander. Bulgarian Emperor just f*cking scared to death by this.
This happened to 15,000 POWs. One of the biggest dick moves in human history.
Oh I saw that once haha imagine how hard it wuuld be, they were probably killing eachother
I am bulgarian and this is true but there are people that are saying that are 38.000 too
The Afghans did a similar (but far worse) thing to the British during The Retreat from Kabul in 1842. A column of 16,000 was attacked and slaughtered except for an army surgeon who, when asked on his return where the army was, replied: "I am the army!"
@@gojim2429 Are you saying that killing 15,999 people is the same as blinding them?
@@arthurjarrett1604 Killing the enemy in battle is war. Mutilating POW is a crime, since they didnt fight anymore.
I heard that (not sjre if this is actually true) during the war between Egyptians and Persians, Persians brought cats to the frontlines as their first line of defense. The Egyptians, who considered cats sacred animals, refused to attack and surrendered
I heard they carved cats on their shields, causing the Egyptians to not attack in general.
@@joshrosenfield6546 probably that's the true...if it happened
@@freakda96 The shield one's true.
@@joshuagross3151 ok thanks :)
this is true! but i believe it was cesares army, as he was dragged and stoned in egypt for kicking a cat. thats where the idea came from lol
Every time the Russians destroyed their cites and let winter do their job for them.
That1RussianDude I know all this but the question asks for dirty tricks and it is a dirty trick since their nation is the only one where one can pull such a strategy
It's called "Scorched Earth" tactic, pretty famous on my country during Indonesia Independence War (Bandung Lautan Api)
They used winter to their advantage because invaders are dumb enough to keep fighting in the winter
It's not a dirty trick, it's a pro gamer move.
Not really a Russian original tactic either. One of the oldest strategies when retreating is to burn farmland, and destroy the bridges and railroads so your opponents can’t use them for troops and supply lines.
When Austria blamed Germany for the first world war.
david schlieber Agreed, poor Kaiserreich just had to help his allies
I get so triggered, EVERY DAMN TIME!
I accept the second world war.
BUT NOT THE DAMN FIRST WORLD WAR!
THAT WAS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S FAULT!
NO DISCUSSION, MY POOR COUNTRY ALREADY GET A LOT OF HATE!
@Mary Breckling You're the only person who knew this.
Everyone else thought everything was Germany's fault...
@Mary Breckling the sad thing is that not even most germans know that..
@@Kili_1701 WW1 Germany is a tragedy. The Versailles Treaty treated Germany so harshly and unjustly. Made the German people desperate and angry which allowed Hitler to take power promising salvation and ultimately kicked off WW2. If the allies had shown some leniency WW2 might have been avoided altogether.
And all of that horror because a few Serbians fucked with Austria-Hungary and they wanted to show strength in response. Fucking madness.
Not dirty, but clever as all hell.
During China's War of the Three Kingdoms, a General well known for his intelligence and cunning was resting at a town with only a token force when an enemy army approached. The general ordered his men to open the gate and hide while he sat above it playing his flute. When the enemy saw the general sitting in front of a defenseless town they immediately suspected a trap and retreated.
Oh, it was Zhuge Liang vs Sima Yi.
@@johnbrownsville9054 thanks I knew the story but couldn't remember their names
This was later proved as false though
A lot of the 3 kingdoms were romanticized, lol. (Like I'd believe Zhao Yun took an entire army head on)
Another smart trick they use was when Zhuge Lianh challenged Zhou Yu when Wei and Shu had an alliance agaisnt Cao Cao of Wei when they had a naval battle.
Zhou Yu was able to spread discontent and lies into the enemy camp which the 2 main naval commander was executed by cao cao
While Zhuge Liang stole 100k arrows from cao cao disguising his boats in fogs tricking Cao Cao army to shoot arrow at Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang covered the boats with hays so they could collect them all.
General shepherd did all of us dirty😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
'' that's one less loose end ''
*N o s t a l g i a*
*Sadness*
Ghost 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Normal person: Sun Tzu
Computer: SON TEE-ZET-ZU
a yes famous Son-Tea-Zet-Jew
Before I watch, my favorite is either barbarians peeing on spikes, infecting people,
Or marines storming panama while blaring the song Panama, while they lost coordination, we won
omg a kurt fan!!! HAVE YOU READ HIS JOURNAL? it's really interesting!
Reddit Said It bruh I wrote it
Reddit Said It it was like a diary, stop reading it, it is mine
my mom was involved in that she was a listener she losr part of her hearing thanks to it
Oh the Pungi sticks from the Vietnam War were sharpen bamboo shoots that were covered in feces and place in pitfall traps.
*_Hannibal has joined the chat_*
Duchi
Nope. My favourite general, but (and therefore) not a inhuman asshole.
*Hannibal used ring around the Rosie*
4:41 fun fact! 'Majnoon' means Madman in Arabic. The battle was literally called the battle of the madman.
SleepyDoopy 1 thank you for the information. That makes it a hundred times crazier.
The opium war.
Forcibly exporting drugs to the rival country.
That was a good war though
@@1yoan3
So much wrong in one statement
@@1yoan3 bruh
*wars
China: No, I'm _not_ getting addicted to your drugs.
Britain: *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
"the smoke bombs were not followed by gas, but by the Australians"
"Everybody died, men, women, and children. The children were tortured four days on end. The men were hung in the streets as decoration. And the women were set on fire"
*In the background*
Dun da da da dun dun da da dun dun dun dun
The germans fell for a classic blunder, expecting gas, getting australians. Really need to think harder
I see no mention of one of the mist pivotal battles in Japanese History. Okehazama. Oda Nobunaga convinced one of his villages to surrender and throw a feast for the Imagawa, while he took his forces into the mountains to flank them. His timing was perfect as a powerful thunderstorm rolled in which covered the sound of his charge. That one victory changed the course of history and turned a poor countryside Daimyo into one of the most feared and respected men of his time. Also hated. Especially by Buddist monks XD Which led to yet another dirty trick. Incinerating and massacering the most holy site for the Buddist monks. And then there was him marching his ashigaru with lit matchlocks, and of course his obliteration of the Takeda forces using volley fire and field defenses. Seriously. The man used tactics that were utterly insane to others.
Have you played samurai warriors?
The Fool
The Demon
The Legend
Oda Nobunaga
It's less than they were insane tactics and more than they were tactics that were not considered "honorable" by the japanese daimyos. his use of rifles is an example, firearms where not an unknown concept to the japanese at the time, but Nobunaga is the only one that put them to use, actually training his troops on their use, how to fire on horseback etc. until he used them everyone else just took them for absurd toys imported from the west "Look at the westerner weapons and their silly gunpowder! they fight with fireworks! Hahahaha!"
Speaking of a) Oda Nobunaga and b) Buddhist monks, the fortress of Ishiyama Hongan-ji. Stronghold for the Ikko-ikki buddhist monks and a pain in the ass for Oda. Part of the monks' defensive systems for the fortress were a whole bunch of clay pots buried in the surrounding mud. Seems kinda dumb, but when Oda's forces came charging on horseback, all of the horses' ankles got caught in the pots and SNAPPED considering the speed they were going at. Ingenious and dirty (eventually oda finally captured it, burnt it to the ground, and its foundation lives on today as the base for Osaka Castle, built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
@@billhicks4127 Actually, from my understanding, he was one of the first Daimyo to actually get guns. The Shimazu (Technically one of their vassals) got them first and after arranging a marriage to the dutchman who brought them learned how to make the screws needed to produce more. The Oda were one of the first to trade for them from the Shimazu.
In terms of the event at the time, it was more than likely considered a dirty trick but maybe not now. During the Hussite Wars (if you’re unaware, the Hussites were from Bohemia, the modern day Czech Republic, and were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church due to ideology. Imagine proto-Protestants, one things they did being preaching in Czech. This launched wars to “cleanse” Bohemia from heresy but they eventually gave up until a thing called the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 where the Czechs threw an Austrian diplomat out a window because they didn’t like the Holy Roman Emperor’s policies he was trying to enforce which then sparked a happy little thing called the 30 Years’ War where 8 million people were killed. After this, the movement died out due to Catholic influence and more Protestant churches.), Bohemians would use wagon forts. When outnumbered, they would set up wagons usually in square formations and put all of their forces in them.
Riflemen (arquebuses in terms of this period, “primitive” muskets.) would fire at incoming infantry while Bohemian halberdiers, spearmen and other infantry would follow up with a counter attack by charging out of the fort with assistance from artillery. Behind said infantry were the cavalry that were also in said wagon fort and you can see how despite being so simple, it was so effective.
And so I conclude my essay on this note: Wagenburg >>>>
Also, don't forget that they set up the wagons usually on hill or somewhere where they had terrain advantange, which usually caused the enemy cavalry to slow down and let the Bohemians attack.
Oh, and let's not forget about their singing. It is said they sang so loud and clear the enemy thought there were thousands of men instead of a few hundreds. I believe they once scared the enemy away with the singing :D
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This is by far the dirtiest and most cruel Ive heard
Miguel Olsen I’m Armenian too man
7:53 I heard of something similar, that you shouldn’t approach dying suspects, because there’s apparently something called the ‘dead man’s grip’ in which a dying person will attempt to strangle you, and not let go even if they are shot or something.
Evermore Online im pretty sure if you shotgun them to the head they Will let go
This is absolutely a thing. Don't approach dying combatants if they can feasibly lurch to their feet or launch themselves at you. Even if they only have a few moments left, it only takes a moment for someone jacked on adrenaline to crush your windpipe.
Levinsky This is like, when you don’t have bullets or whatnot
Evermore Online im sure a good shovel Will do the trick
Crazy
My fav thing about the bat bombs is they super worked and would have been devastating. They worked so well that every test facility burned to the ground from escaped bats.
Sherman during the civil war tearing apart Railroads in the South to permanently ruin their means of transportation.
He also burned a miles wide swath through Georgia, looting the crops and cattle he needed and burning the rest. When he came across a textile mill or similar building, the workers (including young children) would be rounded up and shipped to the north so they couldn’t make stuff for the Confederates. Also, only the mill workers were shipped out, so if mom was a mill worker and you weren’t, you were taking care of yourself. Same goes for the opposite scenario, where you’re a mill worker and mom isn’t.
There's the classic trick of stabbing your arrows into a rotting corpse before a battle to make wounds be more likely to get infected (and to deal extra poison damage).
Actually told to me from my uncle who worked on an airbase during the war.
During Vietnam, to get information from the Vietnamese war prisoners, US troops would take two prisoners up into a helicopter on base. They would fly the heli straight up a hundred feet up or so. A higher up would have a translator on stand by before, without notice or hesitation, kick one of the prisoners out of the hovering copter. They would make the other prisoner watch his ally fall and die before asking them "give us some info or you'll end up like him". Even if they were given info, they would kill them the same way anyway. Once that was all said and done, they move onto the next pair. My uncle just watched in fear.
Haunts him to this day watching the cleaning crew scrubbing the blood and bits off the helipad.
I thought that was ARVN.
0:25 "Private Joe Blow"
...Uh...save it for your bedroom, alright, fella?
2:17 That is literally a fighting game technique. Tune the opponent’s reflexes to counter one tactic, then abruptly switch to another that counters the counter when they least expect it.
But it started as a real fighting technique... And then a wartime technique.
a really nasty story in a book comes to mind:
back in the early days of the USA, some people "generously" gave free blankets to native Americans...which has be intentionally contaminated with several diseases! essentially biological warfare disguised as charity...
-that was in a book called "flesh and silver". one of the villains used "indian blanket" as a password for his computer.
the OTHER main villain tried to enslave a bunch of people using mercenaries PRETENDING to be aid workers! "helping hands foundation"...
That is not factual. Seriously think about it
I love how you can complain that poisoning wells and water sources is a war crime. It's so civil considering that two forces are killing thousands of people of the other faction.
It reminds me of games where people complain about cheating and stuff.
The African campaigns were actually pretty civil. At least compared to the clusterfuck going on in Germany at the time. The stakes were a lot lower in the colonies, and it was still a war of movement. The German commander mostly just wanted to evade the British, tying down troops so they couldn't go fight on the western front.
Because poisoning wells was easily reversible? /s
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 I don't understand your point.
@@huuamai8151 Poisoning water sources, especially in arid area, usually aren't really reversible, at least not in short term. That shit legit caused legendary blood feud. You won't win locals that way.
@@rusdanibudiwicaksono1879 However, pointing out that it's your sign, dipping a cup, and taking a drink while saying "Don't let the Germans see you doing this".....
The Germans droped food packs on starving Stalingrad when opened they would explode
In hunger games I believe the rebels dropped support packages with parachutes and a friendly tinkling tune on the fleeing aristocrats which exploded on contact. I think that scene was based off this.
Haunting really
K9tron Malevolence didnt that kill prim? I forgot
This isn't true/fake news
13:42 Im fairly sure the only reason the plan to send incendiary bats into Japan didn’t work was because the nuke finished at basically the same time as the bats, making them obsolete. But I could be wrong
Nah. There was no need for anything fancy as basic firebombs were already burning Japan to rubble.
I read that after the testing area was burned down the army refused to continue and the project was given to the marines who actually had success, but as you said the Nuclear bomb was ready for use so they cancelled it. Using animals in war is cruel!
U.S. troops in WWII realized that M1 Garands made loud pinging noises when reloaded. Thus, to draw out enemies, they would load an emptied magazine into the gun and release the clip. When Axis forces looked for the guys reloading, all troops would focus fire on anyone who peeked out of cover.
Of all the things that never happened, this one never happened more than most.
While the Garand ping is audible, it's not really noticeable from any significant distance... especially not after your unprotected ears have been blasted by the various noises of battle. Even if someone *did* happen to hear one GI's rifle go ping, said GI has about a dozen guys on either side of him who *didn't* go ping yet.
The one that I know of was Operation Mincemeat.
The British in WW2 dressed up a dead Welsh homeless man as a intelegence agent and sent him to the shore of Italy with a briefcase of falsified information for tactical deception.
Although the relative success of the trick is disputable, Sicily was saved much faster than anticipated with fewer casualties.
Smh the real dirt move was when lee Harvey Oswald 360 no scoped Nixon
REKT
Yup it was definitely Nixon.
@@rabbit3734 of course it was smh😂
Um not sure it was Nixon but lol
@@JackBlackYakAttack smh it totally was Nixon
I’d say the dirtiest war tactic would be having two of your best men raid your primary targets safe house on the Georgian-Russian border, having them escape with loads and loads of information on the target, and when they arrive at the LZ to extract the information, you shoot them, cover them in gasoline and light them on fire.
Rip in peace Ghost/Roach 😔✊
At the Battle of Red Cliffs, the massive armies of the northern warlord Cao Cao marched south to reunify China one and for all. His army consisted of a land contingent and a sizable fleet sailing down the Yangtze River. On the other side were the armies of warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei. Despite their combined strength, the southern coalition was outnumbered. Despite Cao Cao's numerical advantage, his men were not used to travelling by boat, so to improve stability, Cao Cao had his ships chained together, turning them into one giant floating platform for his army. Seeing this, Sun Quan's general, Huang Gai came up with a brilliant strategem to defeat Cao Cao's numerically superior force. Huang Gai led his small force of ships up to Cao Cao's forces, claiming to want to defect to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was happy to receive Huang Gai, hoping he'd bring valuable intel and thus help him deliver a swift victory. However, as Huang Gai's ships approached Cao Cao's fleet, Huang Gai gave a signal and his men set their own ships alight and abandoned ship right before aiming them at Cao Cao's fleet. Huang Gai's fire ships completely took Cao Cao by surprise as they crashed into Cao Cao's fleet. As Cao Cao was coming from the north, the situation was further exacerbated by the fact that the wind was blowing northward, thus blowing the fire towards the rest of his fleet. Before long, Cao Cao's entire fleet was aflame, and most of his men drowned. At this point, Sun Quan and Liu Bei counterattacked his remaining forces on land, forcing Cao Cao to retreat, and completely stopping his southward expansion, and his plans to reunify China.
For anyone that dosent know that the Monash was the first Australians general to lead Australia’s first men before that they where used as cannon fodder by the British he was a revolutionary man and that is why his portrait is on the Australian $100 bill or note depending where ur from
sgt montgomry !!!! What I don’t understand is why it’s considered so dirty? They did the same thing and minus the few weeks of poison bombing which probably killed very few, the main battle only lasted 90 minutes most likely saving more lives than taking
1:25 ww1 was in the time where there was advanced warfare but before laws regulating that warfare
In ancient Egypt, cats were held in high regards. According to one of their goddesses, the punishment for killing a cat was death. So when Persia invaded Egypt, the Persians had cats as hostages at the Battle of Pelusium, and the Egyptians refused to fight and surrendered.
13:20 Well... That plan 'backfired'. :3
Nah it just fired
I don't know if this actually happened or not, but the dirtiest trick I ever read about was the strategy of the empty castle. This was Ancient China, mind you. Basically what happened was that this one general inside a palace was warned that an opposing nation was coming for his palace, now seeing that he lacks the force to defend his castle he had the insane idea to open all the gates make a lot of loud noise to generally make it seem like they were having a festival. The reasoning behind this was that if the enemy saw that they were celebrating, then that must mean that they're REALLY confident that then can defend their castle.
As the enemy general was approaching the castle, he heard the music, saw all the gates were open and thought to himself, "hmm, this is either a trap or they're really confident that they'll win this skirmish" so he turned back.
I might not have brought the story any justice it deserves, but the story is brilliant and ballsy as hell regardless.
This was a story in Sun Tzu's art of war. The gates were opened but they weren't having a festival, rather the general, who was well known to be a great and devious tactician, welcomed the enemy with open arms. The enemy general, fearing a trap in lieu of the reputation of the general before him, chose not to attack.
@@jjy941 Now that I read up on it again, I fucked up the story, lol. It was a battle between Cao Cao and Lu Bu. Cao Cao being the devious tactician in the story.
Another tactic was simply to open the gates and *invite the invaders in.* Congratulations, all your troops are hidden in your palace and can strike at any time, and the enemy thinks you're surrendering.
Subutai Baatur. Just about every campaign he fought had the dirtiest and most cimplex set of tricks I've ever read throughout the entirety of Military History but my favoirite is definitely the Great Kwarezmian Raid.
Subutai had his Mongol force of roughly 20,000 face up against a coalition of Russian and Hungarian forces of 80,000. Instead of fighting head on, Subutai retreated for 9 days though he always made sure that his army was to be only a few hours ahead of the opposing vanguard.
During their retreat Subutai had his men make toys to leave behind then slowly release prisoners to give the impression that they were an uncoordinated force of families and peasant soldiers. At the end of the eighth day, Subutai had managed to stretch the opposing army so much so that the Vanguard could no longer be supported. In the morning of the ninth day, Subutai turned his entire army around and launched a brutal strike against the coalition.
80,000 men turned into a long line of 1,000 - 10,000 man sections and were easily crushed by the Mongol horde.
The rearguard caught wind of what was happening and decided to set up a defensive position over by a near by hill and sat there for three days more as the Mongols surrounded them and bombarded the fledgeling army with a constant hail of arrows.
Naturally, the remaining force attempted to call for a ceasefire and go home without a fight. Subutai accepted this surrender and once the coalition aemy had left the hill the Mongols attacked however Subutai ordered that a gap in the line be present. This made the remaining force's morale to break and attempt to flee rather than fight and were easily cut down.
TL;DR Subutai bamboozles and wins against a force four times larger than his own
Suprised the battle of san jacinto was not mentioned. Texas won its independence from Mexico by wakeing up very early after the Mexican army got drunk and partied. We slit all their thoughts as the slept, winning the battle in 18min. Mexico surrendered and retreated across the Rio Grande. Remeber the Alamo.
Slit their *thoughts*
@@mothertoad6941 i read it as throats guess my brain just fills in the blanks xD
Independance? Has been represented as a US invasion
@@ianmoseley9910 lol the United states wasent even involved. Texas was its own country before it decided to accept the United States Invitation to join the US. Try again.
so then why is Mexico still butt hurt about this? if your troops are that lazy and stupid... they deserve to lose it
I have one. During WWI, Winston Churchill wanted America to join the Allies, so he used many hundreds of people as human shields, on a ship alongside a supplies ship. The Germans found out about this, and warned the Americans not to go onto that ship, because they knew it was alongside a supplies ship, and they would have to torpedo one of the ships. The Americans either didn't find out or ignored them, so they went on anyway, and the civilian ship, much to the German soldiers' horror, was sank. The name of the civilian ship? The Lusitania!
They didn't mention the trench gun.
Good to know.
I remember seeing this purple haired lady turn her capital ship around at the enemies mobile fob and engaging the hyperdrive without the inhibitors activated resulting in the fob being torn in half and the debris from the crash destroying the entire enemy fleet. It’s like the one thing that everyone in the entire galaxy had agreed to never do.
idk if this counts but bush invaded iraq after 9/11 and they recently found out that the evidence bush used was faulty, so therefore bush invaded iraq for no reason becides oil :P
I mean, that wasn't an old war trick. That was a lie. We knew it was a lie, we just didn't have any proof to corroborate the claim.
Well he had a reason tho, oil..
Vinyl ridge is my favourite where the Canadians literally dug underground almost right up to the German defences and popped in front of them
My teacher once told me this story which I can’t remember much of but he and his men were hiding behind trees and stuff and so were the enemy, so it got really quiet (btw no shots were fired yet) and he said “BOOM” really loudly and the enemy took off.
Badassery at its finest
One of my all time favorites was by Subotai (I'm probably spelling that incorrectly). Subotai was one of Ghengis Khan's generals and was leading a force into Europe where a group of Balkan nations made an alliance to fight off the invading Mongols. He then convinced one of the nations to betray the other nations by giving them wagons full of valuable gold. The nation retreated back to their home land and allowed Subotai to absolutely destroy the other nations. However, the gold weighed down the wagons, and Subotai's army easily caught up and slaughtered their allies and took back all their Gold.
The time the Armenians dropped pallets of flour on a mountainside side battle against the Azeris. It was psychological warfare, the Azeris thought it was a chemical weapons attack, were routed and slaughtered. Wish I posted in the thread
lol yep
The drip rifle was genius
During Operation Phantom Fury, insurgents would jack their men up with adrenaline, so it would take half of a U.S. Marine's clip to kill 1 insurgent. I have a friend who fought there, and he said he had to stab an enemy 4 times in the skull to kill them.
Phantom fury😆
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@@keksoslav1743 ?
Seems like every major victory was because some general was like: ima just do this age old tradition differently. And it completely shocking the enemy
I mean, yeah. Strategy is built around what you expect the other people to do, so being good at that and then going drastically outside of that will get you a win.
4:40 "This happened nightly". I'm not a general, but maybe the Iranians should have changed their tactic.
Not exactly a dirty trick, but in ww2, the Germans acted like they were going through North and central Belgium to attack France. When the French troops got into position to defend Belgium, they moved through the Ardennes in the south and got to the coast, cutting off most of the French army. France, being defenseless, surrendered after the capture of Paris.
Jenga’s Khan
That’s what the bot made Genghis Khan sound like.
When us army cant take down taliban snipers from mountain. They called an airstrike.
Toasty
No one:
Not me:
Not you:
People who are early: *fIrSt*
First reply lol
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You know that iconic *DING!* sound the M1 Garand makes once you empty the clip? The ones you hear in FPS games?
Germans soon figured out that the *Ding!* sound meant the US soldier was out of ammo and used it in their favor to advance or retreat once they hear it.
The US soldiers soon realized this and began to intentionally makes the *Ding* sounds on their rifles to trick the Germans into moving from their cover.
USA putting gallons of lsd and acid in local water supply back in Vietnam god just picturing fighting a war when a dragon is between you and your shit paper lol.
Our governments are nuts
>play Three Kingdoms Total War
>see poor faction with little to no food
>trade food for money/land
>cancel food trade once money/land has been received
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you want a dirty trick, TH-cam wants you to pay to end ads or they can keep getting that ad revenue regardless
Like half of these can be summed up by: "Did you know that sometimes, commanders DON'T smash their armies together like kids with action figures. Sometimes, they ACTUALLY THINK! What an idea, right guys?".
Convincing the American population that they’re the good guys
"the smoke bombs were not followed by gas, but by the Australians"
The single most terrifying thing that could happen in a war.
Not sure which idea came first but at 1 point, the US wanted to nuke Tokyo.
Some ambassador stopped the president by expressing its cultural significance.
Hence America decided to firebomb it instead...
*America 100*
I’ll add one. Tom Barry, genius guerrilla leader in the Irish war of independence, had his small flying column under siege in a small village in the south of Ireland by the British. He knew the Brits were short of resources, so he blew a trumpet as if a huge army was about to storm out of the village. The Brits then retreated, expecting a bloodbath. Then the few Irish troops were able to sneak out and regroup. Genius.
The Battle of Itter Castle:
Wehrmacht soldiers fighting alongside US Soldiers against the Waffen SS. Good prank on the real villains of WW2.
The Whermacht killed and starved to death civilians and prisoners by millions on Eastern Front. Not better than the SS (which became a large force later).
@@gengis737 And allied soldiers raped hundreds of thousands - couple million german women. There is no true good guys in a war like that.
“We will find peace” said the spider to the fly as the fly saw the spiders’ jet fighters in the sky.
If you could sneak something into hitlers food why would it be estrogen loool
In theory, anything fatal would be found before it made it to hitler. But Estrogen could be snuck in no problem. Though it making Hitler more agreeable just seems kinda like an 11th hour thought.
@@NEEDbacon It would fuck up his hormones though... at least more than they already were.
Battle of Pelusium was a war between Egypt and Persia where Egypt is defending and Persia is attacking. At that time Egyptians believed some animals were sacred (e.g. cats) and would never hurt them in any way shape or form. The Persians knew this and abused it, the 7000 Persians were equipped with cats for Shields against 50000 Egyptians. The Egyptian soldiers were worried they would harm the cats and did not attack. The Persians won.
British confirmed dirtiest fighters
Obviously
rwdplz1 At least our ships did not fire while under a white flag
oh, i just remembered a story in a book, "cloak and cipher" about how codes and cryptography have changed history:
during the siege of Dunkirk, someone noticed that the Germans were using a simple strategy: first, they would use several different colors of "very" signal rockets to signal the artillery to fire, then sued a different set of rockets to signal "stop firing", then their troops would advance.
so he used HIS "very" rockets to MIMIC the "fire" command, causing the German troops to get hit by their own artillery! he did this several times, and the Germans stopped attacking AT ALL for the rest of the night!
Can someone punch me plz?
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As an australian, i love the part at 3:06
We can be an absolutely terrifying enemy at times
gEeP
"Ok we'll fight tomorrow because it's the sabbath today and we aren't allowed to do war" *attacks when other faction is asleep*
7:35 the Germans complained about war crimes? The ACTUAL FRICK?
France: *Makes maggot line*
Germany:What if we went through Belgium?
Sun T Zed U
I would not say the Art of War said getting surrounded was a GOOD idea, but rather that a cornered and desperate fighting force should not be underestimated.
@7:53 So, the 'paste words into robot voice' is hard enough to listen to, then you add the bad edit audio pops and parts of a line from other audio...
How hard is it to listen to the robot voice while copy/pasting or editing?
Can you not change Sun Tzu's name from "Sun tee zed you", to 'sun soo' or 'sun sue' or 'sun zoo' so that we don't have to listen to this amateur garbage?
I guess pumping 'content' out efficiently, is more important than being good at it.
Unsubbed. Last video I watch from here.
7:57 was the tactic used in D-DAY. Basically, allies forced their troops to the beach. Imagine being stuck there.
>On their front was the "impregnable" wall full of mines, barbed wires, and german machine guns raining down on them.
>On their back was the rough seas of the English Channel.
>Staying put was out of the question, they're being continuously bombarded by coastline artillery and mortar defenses and strafed by German Lutwaffe. Other boats are also continuously arriving and soon the beach will be crowded.
2 choices: turn back and swim across the cold waters back to england or Move forward and kill the enemy.
Best one I know, ancient China. City under siege by overwhelming odds, city wants to surrender but the commander doesn't want to give up, so he sends a message to enemy general saying "our ancestral burial mounds out side the city walls, plz don't desecrate them or we will lose hope and surrender" sure enough enemy general takes the bait and digs up all the graves, now the ppl in the city are pissed off and vow to never surrender. City commander then tells all his male soldiers to hide inside the city while all the women go to the walls and cry and scream for days, enemy army gets super drunk anticipating surrender any minute. City commander orders holes in walls to be dug, and one night when enemy army is partying, sends out 10 thousand oxen painted like dragons and with oil soaked cloth tied to their tails set on fire and stampede enemy camp followed by 5 thousand men dressed in black and gags in mouth to be quiet, almost all enemy army killed. Sneaky af.
13:38 the Russians came up with a relatively similar plan. Attach mines to dogs, only feed the dogs from bowls positioned under tanks so they are conditioned to look for food under tanks. Let the dogs loose on the battlefield so they run towards tanks and go under them, detonating the mines on the thin under armour of tanks, destroying the tank.
Solid plan. Would probably have worked if the Russians hadn't trained the dogs using THEIR OWN TANKS! So the Russians released the dogs, they turned round and ran straight at the Russian tanks and blew up their own side.
I'm amazed this video didn't mention Cambyses II and the fact the literally threw loads of cats at the Egyptian armies, who worshipped the hell outta them, so they'd be too distracted to fight. And it worked.
i hate this one: Snipers usually leave their victims screaming in pain in bad positions in order to try and lure others come rescue them. Then they pop them too. I heard a story of US troops losing 4 men because they one by one went to an open area to try get 1 wounded man in cover.
Romans during conquest of Spain
Romans: "Come discuss peace terms"
Barbarians: "Ok"
Romans: "stab stab stab"
Also the King of Romania in their war of independence ordered his troops to dress up as Janissaries and went out to kill the Ottoman patrols. He then sent out people with the plague towards the Ottoman army to slow them down, and finally he had thousands of people impaled with stakes to make a forest and this finally stopped the Ottoman army. The King is called Vlad the Impaler/III
vald the impaler aka dracula
I forgot who it was but back in the times of the Romans, one army didn't even lift a bow or sword. Gifted the enemy troops some wine, poisoned it with cyanide and watched their entire military die.
The Narrowwater bombings in the Troubles in 1979 was also extremely devious. On a regular British army patrol, a 227kg fertiliser bomb exploded at the roadside, destroying a British truck and killing six soldiers. The IRA had studied the way the brits responded to incidents like this and correctly predicted that the British reinforcements would set up an Incident command post on the other side of the road, by a gatehouse. In the gatehouse was an 800kg fertiliser bomb that exploded and killed 12 soldiers. This was the single most deadliest bombing by the IRA in the troubles
In WW2 the Germans attached explosives to their guns, when they had to leave them behind. When an allied soldier tried to fire the gun, it would explode in his hands.
7:57 That is why I send the surviving Red Army soldiers to the Gulags, so they see it as a lose-lose situations.
I was listening to the son of a WWII vet tell his dad's story. He said that when his father (American btw) was stationed in France, they used to raid the cellars for wine. One cellar in particular was being used by both the Allies and the Germans. During the day, the American troops would go down there and get their fill. During the night, the Americans would come out and give the all clear so that the Germans could come get their fill as well. One night however, he was supposed to move out to a new position. His squad waited all day in the cellar without drinking any of the wine. When night fell, they waited for the Germans to enter the cellar. They waited until the Germans were nice and drunk and then threw a grenade down there. Afterwards, there was complete silence, and they moved out.
That battle in La Hammel was done almost similarly to the battle in which Scipio fought Carthage in Iberia..
For one week straight he kept a routine of going out to the field, formed formations, march, stop, then pull back again to the camp.
On the 7th day, before the sun even set, he told his men to have breakfast sooner, then sent out skirmishers to the Carthaginian camp, while his men finishing up their food and setting up formation.
In the end the Carthaginian were completely unprepared and had to rushed out the men with empty stomach...