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Almost any WWI battle but Gallipoli especially, lions indeed led by donkeys.
Any action fron Ambrose Burnside the dumbest general in history
Not sure you can call Pearl Harbour a military blunder as it achieved the objectives it set out to do.
From that list, I'd pick Custer, then Pearl Harbor. Pearl was a huge mistake for the Japs. They though they would cripple our Navy and destroy any American will to fight. Boy were they in for a surprise.
Although gallipoli was a great idea like much of ww1 it was a case of lions led by donkeys, if it had have suceeded the world would probably be very different today
I think it was probably Hitler's invasion of the USSR. The writing was on the wall after that one.
So many choices........ all major blunders...
Hitler was no Napoleon and neither were his generals. If Napoleon couldn't do it then Hitler should've known it was a bad idea.
The Somme stands out, IMO, as the highlight of the career of the most incompetant general ever to draw breath, General Sir Douglas "I get my orders from God" Haig. His singularly brilliant plan for victory- use artillery to bomb German lines for two to three days straight in order to soften up resistance, then send the infantry "over the top" and have them march toawrd German lines, in a neat lines, standing fully upright. The Problem? British Intelligence KNEW, weeks before the shellings began, that the Germans had bunkers up to a mile deep, and their troops rarely even HEARD the volleys. So, when those poor Tommies were strolling across No Man's Land, under orders NOT to run OR duck, the Germans were setting up their machine guns and mowing down British troops like wheat before a thresher. And to think that Dougie-Boy was later created a Vicount for his "great work"- makes Ambrose Burnside look like Alexander the Great.
Ambrose Burnside . had a trench dig forwards into an enemy trench ... all the enemy did was stand on both sides and capture an entire batalion ( if I remember right... he made an army walk single file accross a bridge into concentrated enemy fire ( the water the bridge was over was a foot deep)... Grant said of him only Ambrose burnside could wring such a glorious defeat from the hands of victory ... he was the champ ...LOL
there is no doubt that it has to be VIETNAM, here you have a country the size of america and then you have beggers living in the jungle.
it should have been over in a flash but america has proved that it is incompetent in every major war when it is on its own.
indeed all they can do is drop bombs,they cannot even keep the peace in iraq.
britain sent more troops to iraq than it did to fight in america 200 years ago and we still nearly won,even though we were fighting in the med,in india, in west indies,africa,facing invasion from holland,spain and france, but we still nearly won with crap soldiers in america.and then compare the size of america to iraq and look at how many soldiers they needed in iraq and vietnam. USA couldnt even fight that many wars at once today.
there is no doubt to every single person on the planet that VIETNAM was the biggest blunder in history,when you compare the forces on either side.
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Vietnam was not the greatest military blunder because America still remained a superpower, her borders intact, her global influence unhindered. Afghanistan was far more disastrous for the USSR than Vietnam was for the US. As for Little Big horn, the loss of 1 US cavalry regiment and a hugely overated, incompetent, longhaired twat to a bunch of soon to be ethnically cleansed Indians is almost insignificant in the history of war and human suffering. Pearl Harbour was pretty bad, but I wonder if the japs had caught the carriers it would have been as bad, for them of course. As for the Somme, the entire Great war was a huge blunder for every nation involved. The flower of Europe's youth wiped out because the old bastard generals didnt understand the horrific effect modern weapons would have on their Napoleanic tactics.
But then always remember..the REAL AMERICANS are the native indians..always have..always will be...the people there now have no homeland
Arnhem was a massive military blunder during WW2 10,600 men who had fought at Arnhem, only 2398 returned, while 1500 had been killed and the remainder were captured.
Although these figures may not be as high as the figures for the first world masacres the presence of the Elite german panzer divisions and of tanks was known before the battle but not acted on. The 1st airbourne division (one of the most highly trained and experianced units in the british army at the time was decimated... the real reason for the loss of these men can be put down mostly due to the extreame rivalry between Monty and Patton and both of their ambitions to beat the other to germany.
I agree it was a huge blunder, but it didnt lead to the fall of the USA and Uk. the 1812 invasion of Russia was pretty bad
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