The Dumbest War Mistakes Ever Made

When it comes to war, strategy is everything… or at least, it should be. But history is packed with decisions so baffling, they defy logic. Watch now, because these war mistakes are so unbelievably dumb, you have to see them to believe them!

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[TheInfographicsShow]

In 1979, the U.S. almost started World War III because someone accidentally loaded a training tape of a Soviet attack into the early-warning system. Imagine nuking the planet over a VHS mix-up. 🤯 What’s the dumbest mistake you’ve ever made?

[knowEyeDeer]

I'm Australian, the biggest mistake you can make in warfare is taking on the emu's...

[williamkirk]

I exist due to Gallipoli. My grandfather was a Royal Engineer stationed there. During the evacuation he become friends with another engineer from Australia. Later, that Australian would introduce my Grandfather to his sister, a widow living in Wales. They married, moved to Argentina where my Grandfather designed railroads, and my Father was born. He and is brother both went on to fight for England in WW2. Then my Father moved to the USA when his parents died to be closer to his Sister who lived in PA with her electrical engineer Husband. There he met my mother who was a naturalized Brazilian citizen while working for Link Belt. Oh what a story, but if not for Gallipoli and Winston Churchill, I would not exist.

[dolan-duk]

"Cow cow"

"A N Z A C"

[aleksandarvil]

5:07
Roman Senator: *He can hide in all the bushes he wants! There is no way he can possibly beat off **_80, 000 men!_*
_(The entire senate bursts into laughter)_
Roman Senator: *GROW UP! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!*

r/OverSimplified

[xun]

I love your channel so much. You have no idea all the cool things I've learned from here that make for great conversations at dinner parties 😂😂😂

[JStryker]

How about Colonel Johann Rall receiving a warning message at a Christmas party, about George Washington's troops preparing to invade Trenton, but just pocketing the message and never getting around to reading it?

[StevenBaer-zvlq]

The true dumbest war mistakes is actually not learning from the past mistakes

[sandbun]

Everything about the Russian Baltic Fleet leading up to and including the The Battle of Tsushim, including the hidden Russian fleet accidentally mistaking some of Japan's ships for some of their own and signaling to them, warning the Japanese of their surprise attack.

[niyanlan]

On behalf of the UK can I thank you for not mentioning the fall of Singapore-that’s very kind of you to spare our blushes sir

[HistoricalArchery]

Your pronouciation of caocao is extra funny for Mandarin speakers

[brokenbridge]

Fun Fact: Custer's Troopers at the Battle of the Little Big Horn were equipped with the Springfield Trap Rifle which has a design flaw. The brass casings that went into the thing could potentially deform and block the rifle breech. It was tough enough to remove under normal circumstances but in the heat of battle, impossible. That helped lead to defeat.

[lunagray]

During the Spanish conquest in the Philippines, the people from the highlands of Luzon (Igorots) would go down the lowlands to barter, they had gold with them. The Spaniards, wanting the gold and assuming that there will be more gold in the highlands, offered anything to the highland natives, even tried using the "humanitarian " excuses of evacuating them away from the mountains (their homes) so they can go secretly mine the gold. The natives absolutely refused and the Spaniards decided to go on a war campaign, calling them savages so they can take the land. Suckers may not have known or were too confident but those highlanders were also practicing head hunting so they had known how to fight. They have have good stamina and endurance since they never had horses and would just walk often with loads on their backs. The mountains they live at were cold, steep, rocky ect. Which were very new to the Spanish who were used to the flat lowlands. Basically the Spanish went in blind, the highlanders fought them off with no guns at all but with such ferocity that they never came back. Up to now, Igorots of the highlands have few Spanish blood mixed in them (they mainly got married to Spanish mestizos). till now, we proudly say we were Igorots because we knew, we were the unconquered.

[FastTquick]

Some honorable mentions that could’ve made this list:

1. General Luigi Cadorna’s mishandling of the Isonzo River campaign

2. Francisco Solano Lopez committing Paraguay to the War of the Triple Alliance.

[JosefHertl]

Interestingly, battle of Karansebes actually might not have happened this way. While this way is really funny, there actually aren't any credible contemporary sources describing the battle this way. Afaik this version was spread by French journalists much later in order to harm Austria's reputation - and it worked marvelously. Yes, there most likely was some friendly fire incident, but certainly not that massive. The loses also were there, but (at least per Austrian records) they came mostly from artrition, i.e. from camping in a swampy area (which by itself was quite a blunder).

[brandonvasser]

Attacking your own people has got to be the dumbest. And then losing because you were napping is wild lol.

[richardbell]

Cannae deserves more historical context. As Hannibal left the Alps and came towards Rome, Fabianus was elected to the office of Dictator, for a six month term and for that time, what he said was law. Fabianus did not directly engage Hannibal, as he did not believe that a Roman army could stand against Hannibal's forces, but shrewdly realized that forcing him to stay bunched up would make Hannibal struggle to get enough supplies without causing local famines and losing any support Hannibal might have had in the countryside. However, everybody else thought that Fabianus was just wasting time, so he was given the insulting cognomen of "The Delayer" and, when his term as dictator ended, two consuls were elected on a platform of raising an army and fighting a decisive battle, which became the fiasco of Cannae. Legend has it that only one of the consuls, accompanied by only seventy men, escaped death at Cannae. After such a lopsided battle, Hannibal could not prevent his troops from celebrating, so it was several days before he could march his army to the gates of Rome. In that time, Fabianus was re-elected as dictator of Rome and and his insulting cognomen was changed to an honorific cognomen "The Great Delayer" [Cunctator Maximus]. When Hannibal finally showed up, the walls of Rome were defended, so Hannibal was forced to withdraw. Fabianus Cunctator Maximus renewed his campaign of harrassment and Hannibal was forced to leave Italy, without ever losing a battle.

[wondermahembe]

You guys are really going super overboard with the music these days. Could you please tune it down a notch?

[AlbertaGeek]

I wonder if the torpedo dude was discharged after his pardon, or if they kept him around to peel potatoes for the rest of his naval career.

[ProudPapaJD]

Getting drunk and fighting yourselves instead of the enemy has got to be the biggest blunder but there were a lot of good ones.