>enemy transmits his orders in cleartext >still view it

Hey

Wasn't there a contingent of Russian soldiers on the Western Front that had to vote on whether or not to keep fighting after Russia itself had already collapsed?

Can anyone tell me that story?

>>1205948
>fail to train your sailors on the importance of keeping codebooks out of enemy hands
>the enemy captures your codes ONE MONTH into the war
>"it's fine, encryption is for faggots anyway, r-right?"
>all this does is even the playing field because your enemy is too backwards to have encryption knowledge
>and because all their generals fucking hate one another and won't cooperate or communicate anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Magdeburg

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>tfw hundreds of thousands of lives were thrown away because military thinkers such as Vladimir Sukhomlinov thought that bayonets were superior to rifles and machineguns

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>>1206080
HOW COULD ANYONE DOUBT THE EFFICACY OF THE BAYONET IN THE CURRENT YEAR?????

COME ON PEOPLE! WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!

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>>1206121
>it's an anzac thread