what are some good historical example of quantity overcoming quality in warfare?
>>32177741
Quantity beating quality is more of the norm than the exception for most of history.
>>32177741
soviet zergrush
>>32177741
Certainly the Battle of Stalingrad. Rhodesian Bush war is one too.
>>32177741
Cuban Revolution
D-Day
>>32177830
I don't even know where you got this one but stop it, it could not be more wrong.
For the majority of the revolution, and in most skirmishes and operations, the police and military vastly outnumbered Castro's forces. In fact it was the army frequently using large battalions of untrained recruits against small, skilled, hardened guerrilla bands
>>32177741
The Second Emu War.
>>32177741
both world wars, american civil war, napoleonic wars
>>32177741
Korean war
>>32178625
They had a second one of those?
Didn't they learn anything from the first attempt
>>32177778
this. russia.
>>32177741
The soviets in the entirety of WW2.
>>32179005
Don't forget American and British too.
>>32179018
The Americans and British had equipment. The soviets didn't even have rifles for all of their soldiers.
>>32177741
I read this as quality overcoming quantity in welfare.
>inb4 go back to /pol/
I think it is the greatest battle faced before intelligent hard working people. Prove me wrong.
>>32177741
Vietnam War
>US expends more ammunition and bombs then it did in every theater in WW2
>Can't change the fact they can't invade the North
American tanks vs. German tanks in ww2
For hard mode, I tried restricting myself to battle involving major world powers post WW2, bigger than company scale.
French Indochina War, French colonial forces were good, but poorly utilised and under-resourced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu
Chinese first phase offensive in Korean War, while many of the individual soldiers were experienced from the Chinese Civil War, the combined arms and logistics of their forces as a whole was inferior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#China_intervenes_.28October_.E2.80.93_December_1950.29
First battle of Fallujah, while not exactly a defeat in the strictest sense was still a failure despite vast US advantages in training and technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Fallujah