What a 1000 years of peace does to your military...

The Republic had enjoyed 1000 years of continuous peace up until the Clone Wars began. The Grand Army of the Republic was completely caught off guard and unprepared for the conflict, and the average trooper would suffer the most from it.

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[runakovacs]

On children and battlefields, traditional navies often had children as young as 13 commanding gunnery stations - ordering aiming, reloading, drilling and all that. Master and Commander depicts this very well.

[WOLFxINFINITY]

I personally always saw the Jedi being put in the roles of Generals for the military was another chess move made by Palpatine. He recognized the lack of military teachings in the Order and used that to his advantage to cause a back and forth style of warfare to make it seem like both sides were balanced. He used their inexperience as a way to constantly lose troops and machines while having a figure head to blame (A more subtle variant of Order 66). Incompetence is a powerful tool when wielded with a purpose. I thought it was a brilliant strategy.

[kjvideo]

Also don’t forget that padawans which were around 15-16 most of the time were automatically given the rank of commander & were given command of around 2, 300 clones.

[Trey-dptl]

Disbanding the military post Ruusan was one of the dumbest decisions the Republic ever made. Darth Bane had to have been thrilled when he heard that. The Republic just made his job WAY easier

[Jurassiccanonking]

“Young one, I need you to take out that tank.” Jaro Tapal- 20BBY.

[notatimetraveler]

"A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it."

[georgecristiancripcia]

The clones had one more huge handicap:the training they received.They were trained by bounty hunters, who, will beign very good fighters, they fight mostly alone or in small groups and this is how they trained the clones to fight.They did not trained them to fight as a platoon, company or battalion
In Star Wars The Animated Show, we see again and again that in small squads, the clones are able to use higly advanced tactics and maneuvers but in larger units they use very basic tactics, in most cases a line of battle with no supporting force, no flanking units, nothing.Just all clones in a big line or formation, either charging forward or firing from a static position.Also, the coordination with the armor, air force or artillery is practically zero.The clones have no idea how to fight as part of a larger unit or as part of a combine arms force.On Ryloth, the ATTE move in enemy territory with no scouting unit in front, nothing.
The same problem exist with stormtroopers or rebels.Very good at small unit tactics, sh.t to fight as a large unit.

[justinkauffman]

"Meth is a helluva drug" - Colonel von Panzershizer

[peterkallend]

What no one realizes is that the Maginot Line was actually a huge success. It was so good the Germans refused to engage it. What defeated the French was not what people think, it was their border with Belgium that defeated them.

[vultig]

Norwegian here, when the germans attacked we had been at peace for 200 years. Our police were so unsure of what to do that they kept civilians out of the way for the germans to march towards the royal palace.

[therealspeedwagon]

I would argue that the Jedi not knowing the true potential of the Clone army and the clones feeling jaded about the Jedi was something very intentional by Palpatine. He was the grand chess master of the whole war at the end of the day. He used ancient Sith alchemy to make the dark side more palpable and able to cloud the judgement of the Jedi masters like Yoda. Not only that but clones feeling jaded with the Jedi only makes them more willing to betray their masters in order 66. This is something that i think makes more sense in legends where clones don’t have inhibitor chips and knew the plan all along and were more than willing to betray their Jedi masters. But in canon we get a lot more stories of clones who had strong relationships with their Jedi masters, and even chose to remove their inhibitor chips and tried to resist their inhibitor chips telling them to kill the Jedi they loved. That’s not to say there were cases where clones liked their Jedi commanders in legends, some even full on fell in love with them, but for every Fives, Sev, Cody, Wulf, Rex, and Echo there were many more no name clones who were essentially droids who blindly followed orders and were more than happy to kill their Jedi companions and fulfill Palpatine’s grand plan.

[BrotherGrimaldus]

The ancients used to say "Si vis pacem, para bellum", if you want peace you must be ready to wage war, the republic and Jedi demilitarization was a Mistake they made two times.

[VerveMagnificent]

The amount of quality content Generation Tech has been putting out day after day is truly impressive. Five stars.

[DarkRavenhaft]

I can't see that chest-mounted mini AA-emplacement and not think of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"'s Vogons, who were such bad marksmen that they used area saturation with chest-mounted pepper-box blasters and still missed 99.9% of all shots.

[SamuelMcAlpin-ftuu]

“Most democracies don’t like spending money on military development.”

*United States slowly backs away with everyone else staring intently*

[cabbievonbump]

You forgot that when an aggressor attacks, he has studied his target before attacking. Something that is taught at military acedemies the world over is that you never attack with a paraty of forces, you want to stack the odds in your favor. Wargamers (and I include myself in that designation) usually learn that lesson without "bloodshed, " but real militaries unfortunately have to learn that lesson the lard ways with a large body count.

[misterbrady]

I appreciate that you discuss real history to create a metaphor to understand your points.

[chriswhite]

"Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." - The Third Man (1949)

[kingslead]

NGL, the fact that their ever was 1000 years of peace just sounds nice as hell.

[merekcook]

Fun fact: Blitzkrieg is an exonym. A term not invented by those inside the the culture. But outsiders looking in.

The German military didn't refer to their tactics as "Blitzkrieg", it was just considered combined arms warfare. Blitzkrieg was coined later by WWII historians.