10 Worst Military Mistakes In History
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- 10 Worst Military Mistakes In History
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10. Battle of the Little Big Horn
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9. Battle of Lake Trasimene
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8. Battle of Yarmouk
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7. Battle of Agincourt
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6. Charge of the Light Brigade
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5. Battle of Changping
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4. Battle of Carrhae
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3. Battle of Hattin
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2. Retreat from Moscow
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Under retreat and losses
1. Stalingrad
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"Top 10 worst military mistakes in history" Proceeds to have a clickbate picture from game of thrones...
Video does not understand the difference between 'defeat' and 'mistake'.
what did you expect. video title is "10 Worst Military Mistakes In HISTORY" and then it has a game-of-thrones picture in the thumbnail
Top 10 Worst Historical Videos. This one is #3.
most forbidden documentary..- Europa The Last Battle at archive . org
10 Worst Military Mistake ini History
1. Friendly Fire
2. Failure Human wave Attack
3. Syphilis
4. Disguised as a woman burqa dress
5. Hit by a friend's combat vehicle
6. Drowning because can't swim
7. Knowing wife cheating
8. Don't ask, don't tell/DADT policy
9. Prey on wild animals
10. Food poisoning
Udin Jembut rant Allah eckber
in the title it says "mistakes" but all you did was a list of great defeats
where are the decisions that led to the defeats?
Zunami thats what im saying. Just saying “so and so lost” isnt really descriptive or insightful
Yer like he didn't even mention how caster could have waited for reinforcements
When you get defeated in war the decisions you made to get to that point had to be a mistakes, that's why you loss.....
ronald bryant but a defeat is not a mistake, a mistake just allows for the defeat. The title is not the ten worst military defeats in history, it says mistakes. For example, the invasion of Russia without proper supplies would be one of the mistakes that led to Stalingrad. Now the video did get the charge of the light brigade correct in terms of mentioning the mistake, but he just quickly mentioned it
The mistake was to invade Russia.
Clickbait video. Awful research and terrible pronounciation. Some facts like the million-strong byzantine army were just chosen for dramatic effect when in fact, for that example, the Byzantines wouldn't even have been able to field 100,000 men.
Exactly. I always laugh when somebody starts talking about million man armies prior to more modern times. This guy didn't explain the military mistakes very much, but he certainly butchered a lot of names.
Yeah that was massively exaggerated.....the real figures are between 15,000 - 20,000 Muslims vs 100,000 - 150,0000. That's the number from most historical estimates.
bysandium hadnt good armor , well trauner troops and muslims were more than 40.000
and byzantine army wasn't more than 30.000 because it had to garrison an hostile population
The pronunciations of Agincourt made my ears bleed.
There is a significant difference between the concepts of "defeat" and "mistake" in battles or campaigns. How can you also include nothing more than irrelevant (on the world and history stages) minor defeats like 'Little Big Horn' and Balaklava (Light Brigade incident) which were nothing more than large scale skirmishes and then leave out major defeats like Cannae during the Punic Wars? Indeed, a battle which until the advent of World War 1 casualty figures, was reckoned by historians to probably be the bloodiest battle in world history in terms of overall causalities. Even today, the tactics employed by Hannibal during that battle are still taught in military academies around the world as the 'classic' envelopment in a battle? Even US General Schwarzkopf used the same principals and tactics from Cannae as recently as Gulf War 1 to outflank the Iraqi armour. I only kept watching to see if it could get worst as it went on and I'm glad to report......you didn't disappoint !
Virtually every name here is mispronounced, made me wince.
Lol. 10 was a great defeat
thank you i thought i was going mad
Me too
I only made it to 6
The narrator never specify the mistakes in the video.
The Battle of Long Tan??? A decisive Australian victory? We won because the enemy wasn't Emu's.
EMU'S, THE ORIGINAL BLITZKRIEG!
Emu’s are tough ass birds, hard to kill even with lewis guns. The military failed but the bounty system worked.
true bullet sponges.
Another mistake is the creation of the Star Wars sequels.
Just saying, I only like how Kylo Ren looks, not his character
6:19 that laugh got me 😂😂😂
These seem more like defeats then mistakes.
In the segment for the Charge of the Light Brigade the image displayed is the charge of the Royal North British Dragoons (Scots Greys) during the Battle of Waterloo. They were classed as heavy cavalry, not light cavalry.
Although to be fair, the Greys were part of Scarlett's heavy Brigade in the Crimea, and Raglan had intended for them to support the Lights - along with a battery of horse artillery - to prevent the guns in the captured redoubts on the Causeway Heights being carried away.
And a further parallel between the two occasions; Raglan(or, as he was then known, Lord Fitzroy Somerset) was a galloper on Wellington's staff, and was injured badly enough that he needed his right arm amputated. Louis Nolan - technically on Airey's staff, but used as a galloper by Raglan - was struck by a shell splinter within a few hundred yards of the Lights setting off, and died on the back of his horse.
Dangerous business, this delivering orders malarkey.
Lets be honest though - he's just taken pulp fiction, promoted at the time by British press to help push support for the war. In reality, while a miscommunication and the wrong valley, the Light Brigade actually suffered very few serious casualties and the guns were captured.
# 0: Attacking a country that has Chuck Norris. That's a mistake you don't get to make twice!
charging a phalanx with Calvary is the worst decision you could ever make.
10 worst military mistakes? What were the mistakes? Is this misleading title?
It was just a list of battles. All military conflicts entail numerous mistakes by both sides. Often the outcome is determined by which side makes the fewer-or less serious-mistakes. Only one of the events presented could clearly be seen as "a mistake"-number 6: the charge of the Light Brigade.
10 Custer's arrogance lead an ill prepared charge against a dug in force and men who wanted blood and the drive to win....custer was a fool
09, Rome, what can we say?? arrogance cus they had one of the best militaries of their age if not the best and had many victories, most commanders saw it as assured victory....never go into a battle believing you'll win, more likely you'll lose a devastating defeat...
08, again larger force thinking they were unstoppable cus of larger force leads to total destruction thanks to superior footing, "I have the high ground" >swipe< eh
07, smaller force defeats larger force yadda yadda....uhh, always bring your archers when in mideval times....and pray the enemy get's some kind of plague or disease....lol
06, miscommunication
In battle if both sides were flawless they would draw. If there is a victory it means there is also a mistake.
Also, wars are consequence of human ignorance... don't make it sound like victories are praise worthy since it's one ignorant winning over another at best, what a shame \o/
A way to solve problems? When last time did war solve more problems than it created?
I had the same response. I was expecting a discussion of poor decisions.
Other than "what happened", does this list ever mention what the mistakes were?
Iain MacLennan Been wondering same lol
The biggest military mistakes are starting a war you can't win. Sun Tzu - every battle is won before it's begun.
The cavalry painting used at the start of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" section is actually a painting called "Scotland Forever!", and depicts the charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo in 1815, almost 40 years before the Crimean War.
You include the battle of Lake Trasimene but then forget to include the Battle of Cannae. The latter battle is still being studied even today, as it was one of the battles that H. Norman Schwarzkopf gained inspiration from in his handling of Desert Storm.
THANK YOU! Saved me the effort of mentioning that!
Ole Norm didnt have anything to do with Storm battle plans. A civilian suggested that they not feint a left wing attack, but to just attack with the left wing in force immediately and this enabled the immediate collapse of the " Iraqi Army".
Where is my beloved R E Lee and his horrible decisions in Gettysburg. Day 2 actually. After resting from day 1, they should have just withdrawn and there options for further actions would have been numerous. And they would have had cavalry to use by then, after a little rest.
The difference being Schwarzkopf having a 3/2 numerical advantage (and a 5/1 mechanical) where Hannibal had a 2/3 advantage.
Most of those were not mistakes - just massive defeats. Mistakes should have included battles like operation market garden and Barbarossa.
Market Garden was a 90% success (Montgomery). And it was certainly compared to Normandy. The battle of the Bulge was the intended counter of said success.
Thank you . You're a man in a world of boys.
Chang Ping was ruthless war. The clip described the battle in detail. However, like people said, this is about mistakes but not defeat.
Mistakes
1 Zhao kingdom, replacing the experience general with a young arrogang general who only read books.
2 Qin's army was well train in offensive. Zhao army was strong enough for defense but not offense.
3 Zhao Kua launched the attack without securing the supply. Zhao kua could not win any battles. Then Qin cut the supply. Hungar terrified Zhao army. Even with food, Zhao army was no match to attack. Without food, Zhao couldn't defend.
Three major mistakes caused 400K death
Honestly, though these all were decisive victories, a few of them (specifically Agincourt and Lake Trasimene) were events where the victor won the battle (and of course, the English, after Agincourt, were in control of the war - and a huge portion of France - for a very long time until St. Joan of Arc showed up on the scene) but eventually lost the war. And of course, the humiliating defeat of Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn led directly to the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
talk slower are you on speed
1. battle of Lake trasimine was not the largest military ambush ever
2. The byzintine's did not have 1 million men at Yarmouk, the Arabs were outnumbered 4:5 to the Byzantine forces. The Byzantine's though did have superior cavalry and infantry yet still failed to defeat the weaker war-torn enemy which is why it made it such a great victory.
The modern estimates of the battle are 20,000 Byzantines and allies to 15,000 Arab soldiers. Primary sources from both sides indicate Roman combined force of 140,000 compared to an Arab army of 40,000. However, compare that to how the battle was fought and the main sources of man power for the Romans its unlikely that they had actually managed to deploy 140,000 and most likely only deployed at most in one single deployment 20,000 troops, similarly to the Arabs who from their 40,000 force probably only deployed half.
The reason they would have deployed only a fraction of their force could have been for various reasons. For example, the Romans had allies in the area that could have arrived to re-enforce or ambush them as a result they probably would have the rest of their forces in the surrounding area's pacifying the population or looking for the larger Roman army.
It should also be mentioned that the number 40,000 could also involve everyone in the battle half of them would have been assistance of some sort, medical care, building tents and other structures, making and finding food, making shields weapons, as well as moving around and pacifying the region or protecting the camp from any possible flank. Not to mention those that were sent to replace the amount of men lost.
With the Romans who claimed 140,000 not everyone had made it to the battlefield and and entire division was lost never appearing in the five day battle. Similarly to the Arabs they needed assistance and care for which would probably have taken up at least half their army. the other forces were allies from which very few arrived to support the Romans. It should also be mentioned that every day the Romans and Arabs had a encounter the Romans were just a little wider and simular proportion of width compare to the Arabs. Meaning that it is unlikely that the Romans had a major manpower advantage over the Arabs.
Ancient sources don't do their best to attempt historical accuracy they often overplay and over-estimate theirs and other forces.
The rule of thumb is divide it by 3. A quarter would be children. An other quarter would be women (however is some battles like Yarmouk they did fight), An other quarter would be others that couldn't fight, injury, elderly, disability, too old, relaying messages, playing instruments, cooking, foraging hunting, guarding...ect. The army marches on its stomach.
Not all battles had the all of these quarters yet all of them including Yarmouk had Children, Women, those guarding the flanks, or relaying messages generally doing things that were not on the battlefield. Just remember this lasted for five day's someone needed the support staff to assist their army. It was also at the battle of Yarmouk the other parts of the army were preparing for a possible assault from other directions that never arrived. Which means the Muslim's under their sources brought 40,000 people yet +15,000 fought. At the Third day the numbers were 4:5. While the Byzantine army was heavily depleted from the Romans Sassanid wars that drained both sides of manpower.
This is not supposed to be a bad thing the victory was still far more against the odds then the numbers portrayed. The victory against all odds was when a smaller, tired, poorly equiped force, fought in a man to man combat without the ability to retreat and won to a superior in almost every aspect of military equipment.
John Alexander ..lol..carthage is in Africa..arab...thats a fucking mix of Greek and black...plz
Lake trasimine is largest if I would argue
In fact, it can be argued that the single worst military mistake ever made was Germany's decision to try to conquer all of Europe starting on September 1, 1939. That decision practically guaranteed Germany's utter destruction, which is exactly what happened. Germany suffered a defeat so colossal in scope and in its political implications that it is now legendary. By starting that war, Germany went up against a coalition of nations, each one of which alone was stronger than Germany, and together administered a defeat so complete that Germany, as a sovereign nation, disappeared from the map. As for the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet Union's tactics in defeating the German army are today legendary. All the mistakes were made by the Germans who were doomed from the start.
What about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest which pretty much stopped Roman expansion across the Rhine river? The Roman leader Varus got famos because the battle was named after the loser by Roman historians: Clades Variana.
DJDoena that's exactly that battle I was expecting to see in here.
3 legions completely annihilated, the legatus (P. Quinctilius Varus) committing suicide, a massive blow to Augustus' empire. All because Varus put all his trust in Arminius. Now that is a great military mistake.
Agree it should be on the list. Very important, even today, as it virtually defined an East / West border. In later years East became Eastern Orthodox, the West mostly Catholic. This in turn has lead to the countries that were occupied by the USSR and those that were not.
So marching 3 legions and 6 cohorts of Auxiliaries not in combat formation and mixing them with camp followers in hostile territory is not a military mistake? They were ambushed because of Varius's ignorance that he wouldn't be attacked as they were such a large force, and then failing to put up any sort of defence and having the three legions wiped out, is not a military mistake? Despite the Roman's going over the Rhine in raids after this it pretty much defined Europe, even after the Franks took over Western Europe their borders didn't extend much further than this. Whilst I don't agree with Paul Mason as the Holy Roman Empire moved much further East than this, it define Europe for the next 1000 years. If that's not a military mistake then I don't know what is?
@An Dre: You are aware that military mistakes encompass more than just mistakes during a battle, aren't you?
Tactical, and strategic, they would both fall under the term 'military mistake'.
Marching your Army through swampy terrain not in battle formation in unfamiliar territory to put down a uprising that was fabricated, would be classed as a strategic mistake, and not sending out scouts would be an example of a tactical mistake in your example.
Both leading to the point that Teutoberg was a cluster f**k of a military mistake, against your original argument that it was not a military mistake, I just don't get it? Also Varus was both a Military man, and a politician, so he is completely capable of carrying out both types, even though it's completely narrow minded to believe that even modern day Generals could not carry out a strategic mistake. To cut to the point, your argument is completely invalid, it IS a military mistake.
My mistake: watching this video.
As a mistake and/or defeat - how is Cannae not even on the list? Is it because Hannibal was too awesome and could have taken too many spots on this list?
I was disappointed not to see the Tutoborg Forest debacle as well.
Most of the "mistakes" herein were not mistakes. Napoleon's military mistake was invading Russia. None of these cases make my top ten.
Napoleon's mistake was dithering in Moscow for several weeks rather than being decisive in either; pulling back to his supply lines or attacking the Russain army re-organising near Moscow, to allow his army time and safety to forage for supplies to last the winter.
Exactly either fall back or keep going. The wrong decision made quickly is usually better than a perfect decision that takes to long to come up with.
Cool and interesting, just subscribed...
You are missing some important historical facts about the Little Big Horn. Custer had planned a simultaneous three-prong attack. He had positioned Reno and his men at the South of the village. Custer was waiting for Benteen to arrive with his men to be positioned at the Southwest of the village. Custer and his men were to be positioned at the North of the village. Reno, for whatever reason other than he was drunk, attacked the village before Benteen had arrived and before Custer was in position. If Reno hadn't been drunk and attacked when he did, the outcome could have been very different. If Custer is to be criticized for anything, he turned down the offer of 4 additional companies from the 2nd Cavalry. They would have been needed.
After the battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet encircled and destroyed the Sixth Army and captured Field Marshall General Friedrich Paulus. That's what really important about the battle, not the number of calsualties of the Red Army.
napoleon invading russia in winter
america invading Afghanistan
america invading Vietnam
putting a hole bigger enough for a torpedo to fit through in the deathstar
Napoleon didn't invade Russia in winter...he invaded Russia on June 24, 1812...
Bonny Clyde thanks for the info
The soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a disaster. As was the British Invasion. Noticing a trend.
Also more of napoleons troops died in the summer months of dysantry than in the winter months.
The Light Brigade charged a second time, and yes, the guns and their crews were obliterated. The British won that charge, but their losses were considered too high for the gains made.
I actually miss the battle at Arnhem 1944 during operation Market Garden. The most important mistake they made was ignoring some important new about a German panzer division that was stationed there. And there we're several other mistakes made resulting in the failure of operation Market Garden.
Outflanking and hold a whole German army = a failure? They didn't cross the Rhine though, that would have made it one of the top five movements of WW2.
arrogant and thoughtless anglosas never admit to mistakes :)
the plan itself was good = but the performance was fatal
no element of Operation Market-Garden worked properly = from command, through communication ... etc.
the full list of errors is too long .....
I invite you to read Cornelius Ryan's book "a bridge too far" = title is a quote from the Polish general Sosabowski (commander of the Polish parachute brigade) who just commented on Montgomery's plans
in English thank you, they threw the Polish brigade after 3 days from the start of the operation, without communication with the British division on the ground, without knowledge of the front lines, straight to the dept of the dumps occupied by the Germans, and in addition to the wrong side of the river ...
but for the arrogant and stupid Anglo-Saxons, the most important thing was to lick ass "geniuses" = Eisenhover and Montgomery .......
As a result of this tragicomic operation, the pushing of the Rhine was delayed by half a year ... allowed the Germans to gather strength for a counter-attack in the Ardennes, and ultimately Berlin was occupied by the Russian army and not Allied troops ... which had fatal consequences for Europe for 50 years. ....
but Anglo-Saxons idiots still say that "there was no mistake"
Could you at least learn how to pronounce what you're talking about...
please please please learn to pronounce names etc. correctly. agincourt, crecy, emu... little linguistic research, less snide commentary, far more entertaining.
Please please learn grammar
Arapahoe is another mispronunciation.
Haha his French pronunciation in particular is fucking hillarious. Guy sounds like Seth McFarlane ranting from memory but I dig it a lot haha
"Well, you've come to the right place, Bob. A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered eighty thousand battle helmets with the horns on the inside." - Blackadder
The Battke of Iswandala in South Africa, 1879. The British wanted to occupy the Zulu land and sent an expedition of 1,500 soldiers deep into Zulu territory. 8,000 Zulu warriors attacked the stronghold and the British, with single shot rifles, were soon overwhelmed by the sprinting Zulus and all were stabbed to death with short spears.
What about the battle of the Somme where the British troops were ordered to WALK across no mans land where they were mowed down due to mistakes
BLACKWOLF129075 no that would be actual mistakes and not just battles this video has a wrong title
actually thats a bit of a myth they didnt walk, most of them at least, and the tactics used by british generals were the best that could have been conceived at the time...it was strong and coherent german defenses that gave horrendous casualties to the british not the stupidity of their generals (of course haig had his flaws but he was dissent at least)
john geo the problem was that the British artillery ceased fire and then the infantry was told to cross no man's land. That way the Germans could retake positions in their trenches and slaughter the brits
it didnt cease fire, the troops went over the top, got stuck on the german barbed wire and then the artillery moved on to the german second line because it worked on a time table, it's stupid on hindsight, but they couldnt get information from the battlefield quick enough, so if the british had won and the artillery fired on the first line, it would be bombarding its own troops...so it was a lose/lose situation...they couldnt know, the solution to that problem was not obvious and recon by aircraft was difficult due to the german fighters
Honestly, as soon as I saw his list included a fight with under 1000 losses just because it was American, I knew his list was going to be born out of ignorance and America-European centrism.
Sorry, but Little Bighorn isn't even a footnote even if every last man was slaughtered in exchange for 3 losses.
How about the Six Days War?
The Winter War?
The early crusades?
Virtually every Chinese battle in history was larger scale, and tons of them were absolute slaughters.
The Cambodians and Thai had tons of epic failures and battles.
CAN'T EVEN PRONANCE AGENCOURT LOL
ITS SPOKEN AS: AJ-IN-COURT
Or Qin (read ch'in)!
and you cant spell pronounce
In the French spoken language the last letter , if not an 'e', is dropped as in A-JIN-COUR. Note the joining of the "J' with the 'IN'.
Doesn't it feel warm and cuddly inside to actually learn about something beyond your blighted nation MR & MRS USA!
it's azinkuʁ
INNOCENT SOLDIER and Carrhae
This is not about military mistakes. Military Mistakes were things like holding the Panzers short of Dunkirk in 1940, giving the British Expedition Force and numerous French troops the chance to escape to England instead of the Germans taking 300.000+ prisoners, or ceasing to bomb British airfields and Royal Air Force infrastructure in favor of bombing English cities during the Battle of Britain, also 1940, blunders, avoiding either of which most certainly would have defeated Britain and changed world history during WW II, or the laying of the Japanese trap at Midway that backfired and robbed Japan of its ability for initiative by losing 4 aircraft carriers in 1942, setting the foundation for Japan's defeat three years later, or, or, or.
Bad list.
One military mess up was the Battle of Isandlwana in the 1879 Ango-Zulu War. 1,200 men against 12,000 Zulus. The British would probably have won, despite inferior numbers, but the commander, Lord Chelmsford did not order the army into defensive positions, took some soldiers away and spread out too far. As a result, the British had the biggest military defeat ever (and it still is). The defeat was only sweetened by the huge victory at Rorke's Drift later that day.
Why is game of thrones in the thumbnail
AffectedVisionz Because that's showing the battle of the bastards, during which Jon almost gets his whole army killed
Oh, I get it thanks :)
biggBOSS1991 Is called click bait
ZenPie] You have to admit that militarily, Jon snow messed up by charging Ramsey's lines though. Almost got his entire element wiped out
ZenPie] So clickbait in the since that the battle wasn't featured in the video
Nothing about why these defeats were caused by mistakes. This video has no strategic value at all.
If you want stratigic value go to Annapolis or West Point this is entertainment. By the way the real millatary never prnounces the names right : They just win ward.
Wars. Woops
I commend to your attention the Battle of San Jacinto, fought near the present site of Houston, TX in 1836, during the Texas War of Independence. Mexican General Santa Anna’s negligence resulted in his own capture and the loss of his entire army, forced Mexico to recognize the independence of the Republic of Texas and accelerated the westward expansion of the United States. It is one of the few decisive military battles in world history.
How about the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Not the one in Braveheart where there was no bridge to be found but the actual battle where the worse mistake was sending troops over a bridge so small that only two horsemen could cross abreast instead of going two miles upstream where sixty horseman could cross at the same time. This made it possible for the smaller Scottish army to win a battle they would else have almost surely lost.
I agree with that. Perhaps another mistake by the English was sending their archers across the bridge, especially being among the first to cross. When the Scots charged, the archers were said to taken by surprise, and could not offer an effective defense, and were among the first to be cut down. If some stayed on the other side, things may have been different. The English army's most effective weapon had been compromised, and silenced. Of course, Wallace is said to have blundered at Falkirk a year later, keeping his spearmen in formation while they were cut down by English archers. But who can say?
jeeeezzz the pronunciation
I know, it's worse than nails on a blackboard.
Yeah, just seen your comment after I submitted mine, hilarious.
Learn to pronounce the names correctly.
I seriously doubt that there were 1 million soldiers were ever assembled at 1 place and 1 time at any point in pre modern warfare.
Not just pre modern - Military's maybe one million strong but like you said at one place at a 1 time.
Typically, empires might uave several hundred thousand fighters, but only field a few thousand strong per battle due to the need to defejd the rest of said empire.
Military mistakes that can’t be *FORGIVEN*
This is what happens when an American speaks of history that wasnt in America
TheLordDynamic ... We take pride in our ignorance, our social services, our educational systems, our waistlines, our environmental consciousness. Ever met a US native that had much education, was well-spoken, or well-travelled?
Wish I was from your locale - likely I could drink beer in the street without being fined (something I truly enjoy about many European societies, along with less-adulterated food).
@@g0679 no, you do. I'm definitely not proud of it. Also, to TheLordDynamic, that's not what happens when an American speaks of non American history. 1, for all you know he could be Canadian, or someone from a country not in America, but developed an accent. And 2, not all Americans are bad at speaking of history. It's just this particular person, who may not even be American, is bad at speaking about history.
The first one is crazy. How they think the battle of little big horn was a defeat. I consider it a win for my people.
Fav military fuckup? Taffy 3. The Japanese center fleet including the Yamato got their asses handed to them by 3 destroyers, 4 destroyer escorts, and a handful of jeep carriers with planes outfitted for ground support instead of naval combat.
The high percentage of Longbowmen at Agincourt was not a deliberate tactical choice as implied by this video, it was because the infantry had been killed/died. Longbowmen making up so much of Henry V's force was actually a problem for the English and only lucky that the ground and subsequent choice of defensive position allowed the longbow to thrive in that particular battle.
This is poor
I wish you went into detail on their tactics
If you think so thumbs up
If u don't, thumbs up
This video was fucking horseshit
yeah what tactics would beat a million men?
Go to Wikipedia on each battle. It will have all the detailed tactics.
Like begger
HolyRomanSoldier
Horse Sandwiches. The best breakfast when you want to break the enemy. If you don´t like killing animals, you can instead use the hammer and the anvil to craft a mighty victory.
sorry. I couldn´t resist...
Love the video thumbnail, Battle of the Bastards is easily my favorite GoT episode. Perfectly (albeit fictitious) summarizes the video.
The title is actually not misleading if you know more about these battles. For example at Carrhae Crassus did not accept reinforcements from neighboring Asian allies that would have doubled his forces. He also refused to go around Mesopotamia and go through the mountains that would have caused the Parthian cavalry to be useless. You see for anyone who is a GoT fan the Parthians were literally the Dothraki of the ancient world known for shooting arrows from horse back, and all 10,000 cavalry at Carrhae were being supplied by basically an infinite number of arrows and just wiped out the Romans.
So basically the title is not misleading but he doesn't go into enough detail for you to actually know that. I highly recommend looking up these battles/decisions though because they're really interesting.
What about when the Austrian army accidentally attacked themselves?
2502 1230 And the Bay of Pigs Invasion
The problem is the incident may of never happened. The first reference to it was a hundred years later.
EMU war ?
2502 1230 wtf how do u attack yourself by accident.... lol if that's true then they r the most useless ppl in the world😂😂😂😂
There's a hell of a lot more to this story than most people know. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was at war with their main rival in the region, the Ottoman Empire, and were fighting in modern day Romania. Different parts of an Austrian army were scouting near Karánsebes, and according to the story the Hussars (cavalry) were given alcohol by the Romani people of the area. They got drunk, and when the infantry arrived they also wanted some of the drinks, and during the argument someone shot their rifle. This caused a fight, and some people started shouting that the Turks were attacking. You have to understand that the Austro-Hungarian army was slightly different to the French or English; people all spoke different Slavic languages; so when the Austrians started shouting in German, it's believed that non-Austrian soldiers mistook the shouts for 'Allah' which only made the situation more confusing.
The confusion meant that much of the army retreated, so that the Ottomans took the town easily. Depending on which source you listen to, there were anywhere between 100 and 1200 wounded, but imo the most reasonable one is around 540, with most being minor injuries.
Was it stupid? Yes, but it was understandable. As for calling the Austrians useless, they were plagued by logistical and linguistic issues. In WW1 they actually fought very well as soldiers, but the generals were truly useless. The Austrian high command were some of the last to understand the new style of warfare and as a result are remembered as a burden for Germany rather than a worthy ally (von Hotzendorf was particularly incompetent, and led repeated assaults to lift the siege a fortress with 140,000 men trapped inside (ultimately losing over 5 times that number if I remember correctly, and still failing to save the 140,000).
So no, they're not useless people, but the high-ups were completely unable to adapt to the changing world before it was too late.
[TL;DR] It's not as simple as that.
Ussr invading finland
Foxy fox Bay of Pigs in Cuba
But ussr won
Foxy fox. Yep, the Finns kicked their asses. Not a mistake, just the Finns won
TruthSeekingMissile What are you saying?Ussr won.They gained tge territory they wanted when finland wanted to sign peace treaty
yes but the finns killed far more than the USSR should have lost and in this invasion Molotov cocktails were first used as tank grenades, yeah and they still resisted
Top 10 Trends, nothing wrong with being humorous in the process.
A guy called The Mighty Jingles told a great story about the most comically ill fated naval voyage you'll ever hear about. Video is called Mingles With Jingles - episode 143. Story starts at 16 minutes. He actually understands the subject matter and puts this waste of bandwidth to shame.
ah-jan-coor
Adam S More like Ah-zhin-coor
i suppose that works as an English pronunciation but what I posted is of higher fidelity to the French way of saying it
Adam S Funny, that's exactly what I thought!
Are you going to pronounce any battle correctly and those that participated in it
Really curious elevator muzak in the background. Funny, expect Comic Shop guy to wander in at any moment.
Worst military mistakes, and you don't mention the Battle of Karansebes? A battle between the Austrian army and........ The Austrian army! They accidentally attacked themselves, causing 1,200 casualties
Little Big Horn as 10th of the 10 worst military mistakes in history with 260 casualties... facepalm... muricans... stopped watching here
Csaba Csiga please don’t judge all of us from this idiot
Cannae??
The Great Siege of Malta, 1565. The powerful Ottoman Empire invaded the tiny island of Malta with 60,000 troops. Malta was defended by 600 Knights of St. John and 9,000 militia. The brilliant grand master of the knights, LaVallette, had a strategy of defending three forts and sacrificing one, holding out as long as possible. All the wells on the arid island had been poisoned and all citizens and livestock needed safely behind the walls of the other two forts. In the final battle, the citizens of Malta joined in and fought side by side with the soldiers. As the battle raged, one hundred horses, each carrying two riders, galloped to the Ottoman stronghold and killed everybody. The Turks thought that reinforcements from Sicily arrived and retreated. During the four month siege, 40,000 Ottoman Turks were killed and the rest sailed home.
The casualty numbers cited for these battles are pure fantasy. This type of exaggeration would make Herodotus blush. If you fact check these, I'm sure you'll find that contemporary military historians place the numbers a lot lower than what minstrels sung about at the time...
What is the perception of a mistake? The video doesn't explain anything about 'mistakes'' but instead chooses 'sides' in several 'battles' . If the maker of this video will eplain the different 'mistakes', it should be neutral and independent. Talk about tactics, strategies and give severel examples.
Come on bruh new commentator please
Battle of Carrhae 50.000 romans vs 10.000 parthians
Battle of Maritsa 70.000 serbians vs 800 ottomans
Muslim soldier : we are only 60.000 and they are a million , there is no way we gonna win.
khaled ibn al walid : Hold my zamzam water
You pronaunce words awfuly and how could Bizantynes raise 1 milion trops for battle they most likely had around 100-150 000 AT MOST and you didt tell us any mistakes you only gave us battles and even that was quite awful
ok, why dont you rename this video as "top 10 Military victory or something instead? most of these you didnt even tell us about what the Mistake is
also, getting Ambushed is not a Mistake, it simply mean that the enemies tactician is better than yours
Ayakashi Hadate] A mistake on the part of any scouts and route proving units not spotting a perfect ambush site, clearing it and reporting it back. Mistakes were definitely made lol
lol, the point of an "ambush" is that the opponent did not see it coming. if they did, then it would not be an ambush. so it might as well be that all military ambush is the opponent "mistake" which make no sense. an ambush dont need the opponent to "make mistake", they only need the element of surprise, which can be obtain from knowledge of the retain, night raid, or even strange maneuvering on the battle field. if getting ambush mean they make mistake, it might as well be that the US soldier getting ambush by gorilla tactic in the Vietnam Jungle is a military mistake, which is simple dumb
because if so, Every Losing war is a Military Mistake, which is every single war in existence contain a Military Mistake, thus make this video : "top 10 Military Victory/Lose"
It's not so much that every single war in history contains *a* mistake and more that each and every one of them is a giant clusterf**k of mistakes.
Could we add the geniuses that abandoned an air force base with all its military weapons to move into an airport to wait for a flight out.
I like the number in the top right hand corner. makes it easy to skip forward, or revise
You make it sound like you're talking about a WWE match. Go read a comic book sony boy! You're not adult enough to do this subject justice.
Little big horn...really. A minor skirmish important only for the USA. We can count dozens of military mistakes that cost millions, even tens of millions of dead and you brought this. Great tragedy, yes, but absolutely invalid for the topic.
I hate everything: I hate military mistakes.
Compare 'Greasy Grass' to 'Battle of the Wabash' or 'St. Clairs Defeat' in 1791. Many folks might find it shocking that the young American army suffered a defeat in northwest Ohio with over 97% casualties, 632 killed, more than 3 times as many as Little Bighorn. It is said that General St. Clair and only 25 men escaped without injury out of over 900 soldiers. Indians killed are estimated at around 25, out of about 1000 warriors.
Are a pio? It's Arapaho learn how to pronounce the words please.
The thumbnail is Battle of the Bastards from Game of Thrones. Great job.
One of the worst mistakes in military history was Hitler's decision to invade Crete. If he had invaded Malta instead he could have protected his supply lines to Rommel and allowed him to chase the British out of North Africa and thus seal off the Mediterranean and protect the underbelly of Europe. Rommel could have then gone eastward and taken the oil fields in the Near East.
With nr. 1 you better can say: Germany attacking the Sovjet-Union anyway while already being 'busy' in Europe itself.
I stopped watching when he could not pronounce agincourt. Muppet
I stopped reading when you wrote Agincourt "agincourt". =)
Pete Gromov fair point, except I’m not making an educational video. If I was I would research how to pronounce and spell the names of the battles at least
It didn't get any better. He went on to pronounce the name of Chinese dynasty Qin as it is written. That's the name of the dynasty that gave CHina its name...
He only managed to get 27 seconds in before he mispronounced 'emu'.
And his pronunciation of Poitiers
How about a video on the top ten Americanized pronunciations in this video?
Synystr7 "agg-in-court"
Don't pin this idiots pronunciation on his being American. We MUST accept responsibility for the foreign words we DID butcher, but this guys pronunciation? Sorry.
The blunders at the Battle of Isandlwana should have been on the list for sure.
Now what about the Battle of the Nile in 1798? What about the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812? What about the defeat of Panama and its strongman Manuel Noriega? I think he's still behind bars.
I had to stop 4:00 in. PLEASE, if you're going to do vids about battles in foreign lands, LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEM!
If only they could easily do a search with the words "how do you pronounce" but alas... That must be a far flung future technology we can only dream of...
I think #7 is pronounced "age-in-court"?
I gave up when he mispronounced Levant in the prior entry.
Andy B
Correct. Consider that in French, it's spelled Azincourt.
i cringed when he was trying to pronounce chinese names... Zhao is pronounced as Jow, and Qin is pronounced Chin, hence the name CHina. :P
......""AJIN COURT"" is how it is pronounced.....you have no business delivering this information so poorly and lacking in information....pretty much skipped most of the relevant info that could of been fit in
It's pronounced azinkuʁ
What about the multiple failed invasions into switzerland. Burgundy tried 3 different times and it ended up being the cause of their collapse. Austria tried and said "Fuck this shit it aint worth the tens of thousans of losses". The pope even thought "man these guys are so fuckin brutal i want them to protect me".
every soldier is hero for his people. Respect All
bruh you gotta work on your pronunciation
Banal pap . and for the love of [insert deity/faith here] learn to pronounce so you don't sound like a muppet ;)
The prussians loss to napoleons isolated 3rd corp under marshal Davout must have been embarrassing and seen as a massive blunder.
Mistakes? Battles where no mistakes are mentioned, and ZERO examinations of mistakes. Stalingrad, for example, the losses or listed, but not the mistakes, which were many, including changing the focus of the campaign to Stalingrad from the Caucus oil fields, Paulus being a slow poke, not crossing the Volga and encircling the city, failures of intelligence to detect Soviet counter attack, Refusal by Hitler to breakout, the notion that they could resupply by air, etc. The Retreat from Moscow was not a mistake; it was the most reasonable course of action. The mistake was Napoleon's failure to commit the Imperial Guard at Borodino and his failure to destroy the Russian army. With the Russian army still in existence, Napoleon could not force the Tsar to terms. Of course, the first mistake was invading Russia in the first place.
Hattin? Vague mention of the mistake, which was that instead of waiting out the invasion in their massive, well-supplied fortresses, the crusader army committed to going out into the field, largely due to political infighting amongst the Crusaders, who then further fell for Saladin baiting them to attack him, and then leaving a place that had plenty of water, and getting caught out in the open without water.
Little Big Horn? No mistake mentioned. There were many, but the chief mistake may have been that Custer was operating under intelligence that vastly underestimated the size of the forces he was pursuing. He believed he was up against 800 warriors, when many of the best estimates put this number at 1,500 - 2,500 (some estimates are lower, others higher than these figures). When he arrived, he was told that it was the biggest village any of the scouts had ever seen, but village size did not automatically tell him how badly he was outnumbered. He had intended to spend the day scouting the camp, but news that some Indians had crossed his trail led him to mistakenly believe that he'd been discovered and that he'd lost the element of surprise, or was about to lose it. Custer, despite his reputation, was known to be a commander who would carefully scout out terrain for a battle, and this meant he acted without full knowledge, to his and his men's death. Custer also made a mistake in refusing 4 additional companies from the 2nd cavalry, which could have proved vital...or could have resulted in an even higher death count. Custer's division of his command, always criticized, was actually a common and accepted Indian fighting tactic: Attract the warriors to the front, come in from behind and hold the women and children hostage, forcing a surrender. But in the circumstances, it turned into a disaster. Would he have acted differently if he'd had the day to scout the camp? Custer was afraid the Indians would disperse and melt away, which is what happened after his defeat. Then there's the actions of his subordinates: He repeatedly asked for Benteen & the pack train to join up, 4 additional companies, to join up with him, which Benteen did not. With so much unknown about the battle, would Benteen have arrived in time before Custer engaged or in time to save Custer? We can't know. Like with the 2nd Cavalry's 4 companies, we can't know if would it have saved Custer's command from being wiped out, resulted in a victory, or just added to the dead. But so many mistakes and not one mentioned.
If you saw a defeat was caused by great mistakes, then prove it.