10 BIGGEST MILITARY SCREW UPS in History!

[dexter]

The DUMBEST mistakes made by armies that cost them BIG time.

 

[ChineseToTheBone]

To provide another military screw up relating to a German submarine, U-110 was captured in 1941 and contained an Enigma machine alongside secret cipher documents. Those falling into the hands of the Allies greatly aided their war efforts against the Axis.

 

[ali_raza]

what about german army not attacking moscow in spring of 1941 rather thrn going for staningrad

 

[ChineseToTheBone]

what about german army not attacking moscow in spring of 1941 rather thrn going for staningrad

That can be counted under Operation Barbarossa and its related screw ups, no?

 

[ali_raza]

That can be counted under Operation Barbarossa and its related screw ups, no?

if that could be done then operation barbarosa would be hitlers master stroke rather then screw up.it was only moscow that mattered

 

[ChineseToTheBone]

The capital was not that important by that point militarily, since the central government had already relocated before the city was surrounded in addition to vital factories situated much farther east.

 

[Georg]

For me this list should include the battle of the Teutoburg Forest or also known as the Varian disaster.

The german tribes whipped out three complete Roman Legions + 6 auxiliary cohorts + 3 Alen and the none military support marching with them.. in about 2 days the giant Roman Empire lost 1/8 of its complete troop strength across the complete Empire and left the north flank completely unprotect. It stoped all Roman capture east of the Rhein and north of the Main.

After a summer campaign against German tribes on the way back to their winter barracks, Herman (a native german) roman officer told Varian about a tribe clash and that he should marsh with his Legions to sort this out and end the conflict... that was a trap build up by Herman, the landscape forced the Romans to break up marsh order and they ended up in a giant snake of soldiers and civilians march through rough hill terrain and it started raining, as the German tribes started to attack at several points, the Roman Legions could not fight in formations which gave away all thier technical and tactical advances, with a forced marsh they tryed to reach open terrain to get into fight formations but they could not escape the deep forrest. During the night they were able to build up a field fortification but they realized they were surounded by the German tribes. The next day they tryed a break through escape but were running in the final trap set up by Herman and were nearly completely whipped out.

 

[Srinivas]

Western perspective!

 

[Hassan Guy]

*sigh*

Of course Hitler is in the thumbnail.

 

[xenon54 out]

The one with Constantinople is BS, the gate that was left open wasnt a major gate as he claims, its was a small gate leading to the wall which made it possible for Turkish troops to raise the flag on the top of the wall, it wasnt the reason for success of penetrating the defense either, more like a catalyst since there were several breaches in the wall already according to historians.

Shortly after midnight on May 29 the all-out offensive began. The Christian troops of the Ottoman Empire attacked first, followed by the successive waves of the irregular azaps, who were poorly trained and equipped, and Anatolians who focused on a section of the Blachernae walls in the northwest part of the city, which had been damaged by the cannon. This section of the walls had been built earlier, in the eleventh century, and was much weaker. The Anatolians managed to breach this section of walls and entered the city but were just as quickly pushed back by the defenders. Finally, as the battle was continuing, the last wave, consisting of elite Janissaries, attacked the city walls. The Genoese general in charge of the land troops,[3][55][56] Giovanni Giustiniani, was grievously wounded during the attack, and his evacuation from the ramparts caused a panic in the ranks of the defenders.[83] Giustiniani was carried to Chios, where he succumbed to his wounds a few days later.

With Giustiniani's Genoese troops retreating into the city and towards the harbor, Constantine and his men, now left to their own devices, kept fighting and managed to successfully hold off the Janissaries for a while, but eventually they could not stop them from entering the city. The defenders were also being overwhelmed at several points in Constantine's section. When Turkish flags were seen flying above a small postern gate, the Kerkoporta, which was left open, panic ensued, and the defense collapsed, as Janissary soldiers, led by Ulubatlı Hasan pressed forward. Many Greek soldiers ran back home to protect their families, the Venetians ran over to their ships, and a few of the Genoese got over to Galata.

 

[MilitaryAttractions]

thanks for posting, wasn;t aware of some of these

 

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