What is the greatest trick in military history?

>>32530003
>6 million

>>32530003
comms and standardisation

Foreign countries paying our politicians to accept millions of foreigners until they can demographically take over

Pearl harbour

>>32530003
If a true story it would obviously be the Trojan Horse.

>>32530003
How to win a war by not fighting one.

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>>32530003
This probably isn't it, but it's up there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Lake_Tanganyika#The_journey_of_Mimi_and_Toutou

tl,dr: How do you capture a lake? By carrying your own boats halfway across Africa.

>>32530003
Logistics

>>32530003
North Korea making everyone think they're a joke.

>>32530186
Proxy wars?

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Pattons Ghost Army

>>32530304
But they are.

Sure they could steamroll the south in a matter of weeks, but they would get their asses handed to them by what could potentially become a nuclear campaign against them.

Russia falling back to their northern lands.

Hitler managed a pretty good one
>Start a war
>Kick ass for a few years
>Start getting your ass kicked
>War is over, enemy at doorstep
>Fake your death and flee to Argentina

Juan Pujol Garcia
>want to be spy
>contact America and Britain
>naw bruh we're full
>contact Germany
>says he's a high ranking Spanish official and wants to help
>is ordered to move to London
>moves to Portugal instead
>makes shit up
>convinces Germany he needs 27 different paychecks for his agents
>convinces Germany that some of his agents are dead and their families need pensions, don't worry he'll find new agents soon
>starts telling Germans to go to random locations in the middle of nowhere to find convoys
>Brits finally take him on to make up shit about the Allied landings in France
>in July 1944 Hitler authorizes him to receive the Iron Cross Second Class, and his German boss actually makes a point of giving it to him after the surrender
>in November 1944 King George the VI also awards him for the exact same occupation
>total bill to Axis: $4.62 million in today's money

>>32530371
See? It's working.

>>32530407
>falling back
I don't think that's the way it happened. I think Stalin said stand your ground to even the civilians. Long supply lines and old man winter was the only thing that stopped the German juggernaut, and Napoleon before that. Endless hordes of Soviet conscripts didn't hurt either but don't heap praise on professional Russian liars.

>>32530371

I seriously doubt they could get to Seoul, with or without the US.

>>32530440
I want to believe

>>32530003
Surprise buttsex.

>>32530291
>The shell hit the target, but both gun and gunner flew into the river, as the gun had not been properly bolted to the deck.
woops

>>32530304

North Korea prevents war by having 23 million retard citizens nobody wants to go broke feeding the moment the government crumbles.

>>32530027
>not 6 gorillion
Are you anti semitic or something?

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>>32530727
Simple solution.

>>32530291
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Lake_Tanganyika#The_journey_of_Mimi_and_Toutou

that whole story is fucking ridiculous, and needs to be a movie.

I can't decide if it needs to be a michael mann movie, or a monty python movie, but either one would work

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>>32530304
>Laughing_Sorks.jpg

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Rape as wepon

>>32530453
just read up on him, thats a fucking wicked story

>>32530003
Attack on Port Arthur (Russo-Japanese Wars)
Attack on Pearl Harbor (WW2)

Japanese love surprise tricks

>>32530513
They don't need to go on the offensive.

They just need to make it not worth it to be invaded, which they do damn well.

>>32530003
Spinning, that's a good trick.

>>32530440
His endgame was to annihilate Germany, which he pretty much succeeded in doing. Hitler was the real victor of WWII. Königgrätz never forget.

>>32530003
It doesn't count as one single trick nor does it count as one of the best, but it's still impressive.

>Russia goes to war
>pretend they don't
>enough propaganda and shills make people believe they aren't at war
>keep going by helping the lards elect a dumbass
>guy promises to weaken NATO, is naive enough to think both countries can be "friends", and wants to fight the largest geopolitical threat to Russia
>the best part is that most people don't believe they did it
>third 'russian reset' incoming because people are too retarded to see what Russia is doing
>even manage to make the world believe they're actually a relevant power
To be honest, Russians definitely know how to use stupidity at their advantage. And it's nothing new either.

>>32533513
Never underestimate an Austrian seeking for revenge.
Fucking Saupreissn got what they deserved, heil Hitler !

>>32530317
The whole of Operation Bodyguard was fucking amazing

>>32530291

>Spicer-Simson was a man described by Giles Foden as "a man court-martialled for wrecking his own ships, an inveterate liar and a wearer of skirts."[13] He had reached the rank of lieutenant-commander but had not progressed further owing to a number of mistakes and disasters, which left him in a small office in the Admiralty assigned to helping with the process of transferring merchant seamen into the navy. In 1905, he had come up with the idea of stringing a cable between two destroyers to sweep for periscopes and nearly sank a submarine.[14] He ran another ship aground while testing the defences of Portsmouth Harbour, and later collided with and sank a small boat, killing a man.[14] By the outbreak of war, he was in command of HMS Niger and a small flotilla at Ramsgate. He went ashore to entertain guests at a nearby hotel, from whose windows he watched Niger being torpedoed and sunk

WWI was a fucking riot.

>>32533555
Too much CNN family.

>>32530315
Probably more on the lines of inciting a civil war, assassination, economic destruction (eg. Cold war ending), or surrounding and forcing surrender without battle.

>>32530315
It's a quote from Sun Tzu: The Art of War

>>32530003
convincing the world it didn't exist

WW1 and WW2: making white people fight eachothers to make room for the Jews.

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>>32530003
I've always loved this idea, to the point of actually thinking of making my own, now that I started collecting.

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>>32530453
pretty fucken awesome

>>32530782

IMHO Werner Herzog would be insane enough director for this kind of movie.

It's less a "greatest" and more a "classic" but during one of the many, many wars in China's warring states period an alleged descendant of Sun Tzu named Sun Pin made one of his enemies think he had less than half the army he started out with then fooled said enemy into reading a shitpost about how he would die under a tree before springing an ambush and killing everybody, after which said enemy committed suicide under the tree.

I did a three post long series on it once in more detail but I don't feel like doing that again.

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>>32530003
The 360 noscope.

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>>32530003

>>32530167

>how do we get rid of our outdated battleships, and also get the people to fight and die to expand our empire

More of a lie than a trick.

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>>32530003

>That's right Napoleon, a little further, just extend yourself a bit more. Soon you'll be able to replenish your stock and soldiers in the capital. That's right, a bit more... and... NOW YOU BURN... later you shall freeze.

>>32530502
Well, that's where you're wrong kiddo.

The fact that the Soviets moved so much of their heavy industry back to the Urals and beyond had a much greater significance on the outcome of the war than weather conditions. Not that the Germans were fucking stupid for not preparing but that's hardly "the only reason" that they lost.

>>32530127
Probably this, although it couldn't happen without the traitors inside

>>32533976
I remeber that, was a nice read

>>32530746
Yes. Why's that matter?

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

operation mincemeat was pretty good

>>32533555
Quick question : What threat, barring nuclear threat, does Russia pose to the US? We could absolutely tank their economy in a day - we've done so in the past. We can beat the absolute piss out of them in any non-nuclear war. An invasion of mainland US would be over as soon as it started. So what could Russia possibly to do us to harm us?

9/11

>>32534249
they don't pose a threat
they are just being used as a piece of rhetoric by the dems against Trump

>>32530680
>>32530782
>>32533676
Why can't real life be this cool anymore?

>>32534249
the only thing russia can do is arm and train guerrillas to commit terrorist attacks in US soil, but ruskies won't do that

this

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

Hannibal was a great tactical leader.

>>32533710
>I believe Trump's twitter diarrhea more than accredited news organizations and intelligence agencies

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>>32533758
Orks are one of the most fun armies, especially for conversions.

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>>32530027
>>32530746
>>32534227

>>32530003
anyone who gets what they want without ever firing a shot

D-Day would be up there

>>32534249

So many people miss the point. Russia is not a threat to the US. Russia is a threat to long term US interests and the current world order.

Russia wants to isolate certain European countries from the rest of Europe and "the west". Best way to do that is a resurgence of isolationism and nationalism in important western countries.

Russia also wants an end to the US dominated way of managing international relations. Thats why it was important for Putin to intervene in Syria and embarrass the Obama administration.

If you're looking at the situation as people making out that Russia is an existential threat to the US then you're unintentionally perpetuating what amounts to strawman arguments.

>>32534480
It's too bad they're so ass in game.

>>32534591
>Caring about how competetive your army is
>ever
I have an army I've never won a single game with... but ya know what, I've also never not had fun while playing with that same army. Which is the fucking point.

>>32530453
Based af.

>>32530513
NK has enough heavy artillery pointed at Seoul to make WW1 artillery duels look like tea parties
So no, they wouldn't make it there, but they would level it before anybody could do anything about it

>>32533555
Thanks for correcting the record, faggot.

>>32534473
>believing a proven propaganda channel
>believing the CIA... EVER

Senpai you aren't going to survive the next 8 years at this rate, seek help.

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This

>>32534617
Shit man I know the point of having an army is because they're your guys that you assembled and painted into your own little thing but it isn't very heartening for them to be smashed in a single turn by Meme Marine Formation #9.

>>32530003
The creation of the International Monetary Fund

>>32533568
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SCHLUCHTENSCHEIßER

>>32530003
I don't have the screepcap, but Fritz Klingenberg's capture of Belgrade is definitely one of them.

>>32530776
IDGI. Is this a Stephen King reference or something?

>>32534739
>CNN is propaganda
>but Trump's tweets, vetted by absolutely NO ONE, aren't
I'm going to survive just fine, considering I seem to have a whole hell of a lot more common sense than you.

The empty fort strategy of Zhuge Liang. People aren't sure if it's wholly accurate or just romanticised version of events but if real went something like this

>Zhuge Liang is known to be a cunning Chancellor
>Was in a town with very few soldiers when an enemy army appeared
>No hope of defeating the enemy army
>Ordered the front gates to be opened while he sat atop them playing a Guqin (Chinese string instrument)
>Invited the enemy army into the town
>Enemy General knew his reputation of cunning
>Thought an ambush was waiting inside the town
>Ordered his army to 180 the fuck out of there

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>>32537999
You're a sheltered git, aren't you?

>>32530003
Probably Inchon.

>>32538216
>You're a sheltered git, ain't you?

C'mon, old man. No more riddles, you mean spirited sumbitch, just tell me what your picture means.

>>32538262
It ain't my photo, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)

>>32533555
> People actually think like this.

Fucking bootlickers eating up whatever gets sent their way.

>>32534249
The destabilization of Europe presents a problem to our economy in the short term and instability in the long term. We don't want Russia to gain power - doing so comes at a direct loss to us and our European allies. Furthermore, the whole point of Putin's plan is to foster nationalist groups hostile to one another so they won't work together.

It's not just the end of NATO, it's the resumption of arms wars and nationalistic dick waving that we've worked so hard to stamp out since World War II.

But hey, what do I know? We've only been predicting this for over a decade. Now it's a partisan issue. Better throw all fucking logic out the window because the monkey I like says it's wrong!

>>32537999
It says "VX on the skin" with a dead rabbit. He's saying gas them

>>32534249
They wish to sown divisiveness in between the various nations of Europe so they can more easily attain their goals, which is the re-establishment of the Soviet sphere (now Russian). These areas include Ukraine, the Baltic states, Finland and areas of Poland.

>>32539190
I check back in and see the trail finally ending here... that should not have taken so long, heh.

>>32530003
Chinaman stealing arrows using barricaded boat onna lake.

>>32534765
Is there any more of this stuff?

>>32534249
The world economy is connected. If russia fails, many minor countries that are allied with it will also show signs of failing and eventually lead to china. If china fails then shit will go down.

economically, I think the US could survive if china fails, but not the whole of the east.

>>32540532
I'm honestly pretty ignorant about world economics. What happens if China's economy fails?

>>32530371
>Sure they could steamroll the south in a matter of weeks.

You're already wrong there, they don't have enough fuel or food to make it two weeks.

>>32540560
The economy relies on other nations to work. When we sneezed during the recession, the rest of the world went into a depression. You don't build your own car do you? Are you your own doctor? No, of course not. It's not practical to do everything yourself - you trade with others in your community.

Now think of that on a much bigger level: what happens when the grocery store closes?

You go hungry.

Even if you've got food stocked up, other people will starve. But people don't starve, they steal and fight over what little they can get. Desperate people do desperate things. Look at the pirates off the coast of Somalia: they're not doing it for fun.

When pancho villa was running from Texas military and set up sticks with Panchos on them under a hill so the Texans would attack the stics early morning while Villas underpowered, undermaned forces shot Texan forces from the flanks.
I say that takes the cake.

>>32530167
it really is crazy. America didn't give 2 shits about the germans until japan attacked. the world would be a much different place if the emperor kept his dick sheathed

>>32541329
Well that's not true. FDR was supplying the British and in a quasi-war with the Kriegsmarine. That said, I don't know if we would've declared war outright if Hitler hadn't done it first.

I guess he never learned the first rule of 4X: never ally with a mentally unstable loser on the other side of the map.

>>32530003
Putin getting Obama elected so that the Cuck states of america

I've always thought that the way they tricked the Japanese into revealing that they were about to attack Midway was cool

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>>32534473
>Hillary has a 99% chance to win the election

T. Accredited News Organization

>>32538028
Goeblles had his stuff vetted too, eh?

>>32530003
Just the idea that someone cut up a $50 fucking tank model for that purpose is rustling me.

It's a pretty fucking neat idea tho

Didn't like 6 Germans take the Yugoslavian capitol in WW2 by lying and walking around town like they owned the place?

>>32541816
http://www.historynet.com/invasion-of-yugoslavia-waffen-ss-captain-fritz-klingenberg-and-the-capture-of-belgrade-during-world-war-ii.htm

Found it, some juicy stuff in there.

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>>32530776
What happened to fellow bun? Is he past rescue?

>>32530453
>>convinces Germany he needs 27 different paychecks for his agents
>>convinces Germany that some of his agents are dead and their families need pensions, don't worry he'll find new agents soon
War is the time of the conmen.

>>32540532
>If russia fails, many minor countries that are allied with it will also show signs of failing and eventually lead to china.
It won't lead to China because China will eat those failing countries up and sweep them under Xi's coat.

China and Russia are competitors far more than either of them are with the US or the West in general. They basically compete for the 'best friends of any tyrant with cash or minerals' award.

If Russia's proxy states failed, China would pick them up like a housewife at the supermarket bargain bin.

Their failure would make China stronger, not weaker.

>>32541371
>I guess he never learned the first rule of 4X: never ally with a mentally unstable loser on the other side of the map.
Sometime in the 21st century there will be WWIII and it will be fought on all sides by people who grew up with 4X and then went to military academies/law school.

What will that war look like?

>>32541967

do you have an antidote for VX nerve gas poisoning?

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>>32541967
This is now a rodents and rifles thread

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>>32534765
>obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

>>32538531
>bootlickers

IPs that browse /pol/ should be automatically banned from posting on /k/

>>32534013
too fuckin soon

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

This one is pretty fun

>Rhodesian selous scouts pretend to be guerillas
>Drive up to a training camp in disguise
>Bluff their way past the gate
>They were driving armored cars and unimogs
>2 of these had 20mm cannons
>Scouts drive to the center of the camp use a whistle to signal for an emergency muster
>thousands of guerrillas gather in front of the cars
>Rhodesians open fire at point blank
>1000+ guerillas killed by gunfire or drown while trying to swim to safety
>Rhodies fuck off and blow up a bridge on the way
>Only 4 of them were injured, none killed
>They did this with only 84 men.

>>32530003
allowing dindu's to be in leadership positions

>>32542209
Literally everyone will be pulling Italy on everyone

>>32534494
What if you get laid, but still blame the jews for everything.

>>32530003
>>32533146
>Spinning
Came to post this

Probably not the best but one I remember, Battle of Suiyang
>He ordered his troops to shoot weeds, instead of arrows, at a few enemy soldiers. When these soldiers noticed that they were being shot by weeds, hence were not killed, they were overjoyed. They promptly ran to Yin Ziqi to report that the Tang army had already run out of arrows. Zhang Xun noticed where the soldiers ran and ordered his best archers to shoot at Yin Ziqi. One such arrow hit Yin Ziqi in his left eye, throwing the Yan army instantly into chaos. The siege ended with the expected major blow to the Yan morale.

Also,
>Casualties and losses
>9,600 soldier deaths
>20,000-30,000 civilians were eaten

>>32534739
CNN is shit, but the CIA is relatively reliable once reports are made public. In any case, out of the 3, Trumps twitter is by far the worst.

What amazes me is what lengths people will go to as to religiously defend Trump and anything he does, including here. It's like they'd rather get shafted for the next 4 years in anyway possible rather than admit to themselves that they didn't vote for the absolutely perfect candidate.

>>32530003
Skorzeny M10 Panther

>>32538028
>CIA isn't propoganda
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

>>32543940
Fuck

>>32542641

But that's a shotgun

>>32542656

And that's a pistol

>>32534238
>Cannae
literally this. No other single military trick completely reinvented generalship for millenia afterwards.

>>32534666
I highly doubt this but okay.

>>32534666
Of course, Dark Lord. The wisdom and knowledge you gift us with brings clarity through the fog

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>>32542656
Those are some cute piggies, anon

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>>32543835
>tfw you will never empty an autocannon into a bunch of niggers
why even live?

>>32538738
>posting on /k/
>Not wanting another world war
anon pls

>>32544174
>vote for the absolutely perfect candidate.
So everybody is in denial?

>>32537610
>Fritz Klingenberg's capture of Belgrade
This, Klingenberg was a DUDE

>>32542609
>do you have an antidote for VX nerve gas poisoning?
It's too quick but actually, I believe there are technically antidotes but they're used to treat survivors because you die before you could reach them.

>>32543924
>Literally everyone will be pulling Italy on everyone
What do you mean? Asking for more powerful allies and generally losing in ill-advised adventures beyond their border?

>>32541793
If they have enough money for warhammer in general its not too big of a deal.

>>32544824
>So everybody is in denial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ViNHuJ7IJ4
>The bigger the trick and older the trick, the easier it is to pull. Based on two principles. They think it can't be that old and they think it can't be that big, for so many people to have fallen for it

Lying to a whole country is a big trick and an old trick. But everyone believe it can't be that big and it can't be that obvious because so many people couldn't have fallen for it, right?

>Eventually, when the opponent is challenged or questioned, it means the victim's investment and thus his intelligence is questioned.No-one can accept that, not even to themselves

Anon is not an idiot, anon supported Trump, therefore supporting Trump must have been the right thing to do.
The logic cannot be questioned.

It's an example of cognitive dissonance. The harder you push, the greater the evidence, the greater the required denial to maintain the subject's ego.

>>32533632
>Operation Bodyguard
>The subsequent deception suggesting that the Normandy landings were a diversion led Hitler to delay sending reinforcements from the Pas de Calais region for nearly seven weeks
What the in the hell. Never heard about this before but its freaking insane

>>32530003
Cannae.

>>32534238
>>32544401

>>32544978
>>32534238
>>32544401
>Battle_of_Cannae

Cannae wasn't a trick, it was strategy and tactics.

It involved careful reading of terrain and troop capabilities and the persona of enemy leadership. There was no deception in Cannae though; just a bad general vs a very good one.

Varro had access to the same information as Hannibal (more or less) but didn't use it as well, or at all.

>>32543835
god damn

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>>32543835

Germany strategically losing World Wars 1 and 2 so they would eventually be able to form the European Union with willing countries and finally form a Reich

>>32530003
Convincing young men that their wives faithfully wait for them at home.

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>>32543835
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dingo
Rhodesian casualties:
2 dead
6 injured
Total: 8

ZANLA casualties:
3,000 dead
5,000 injured
Total: 8,000

>>32534246
>Operation Mincemeat
>operation starts by throwing a dead tramp out of a plane, in to the sea

I don't think it changed the world, but it's some pretty wacky history.

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

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>>32543835
>"Oh shit that's the whistle everyone get together."
>"Oh shit everyone's dead."
>"Oh shit the bridge is blown too."
Jesus

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>>32544957
Its an important part of WW2
I suppose you are American so dont know much about what the other allies did.

The British spy rings have some amazing stories
North Africa campaign and Italy has some good stuff too.

Whats really funny are the ways Britain convinced Hitler that we didnt have RADAR or that we were intending to invade Norway

>>32544870
>>32537610
>TFW you`ll never watch a good movie about this.. feels bad man

>>32544174
Like when the CIA said saddam had weapons of mass destruction?

Or arming "moderate" rebels in Libya was the best way to handle the situation.

>>32544911
You're right, we should have elected the paragon of honesty, Mrs. Hillary "no one died in Benghazi" Clinton.

How about Hillary "I never sent nor received classified intel" Clinton.

>>32543940
Shut it down

>>32530291
>>32533676
>>32530782
Holy fuck we need a cast for this, this is hilarious.

>>32535081
Oh I know, it's especially not fun to have the Purple Sun end up landing right on the center of your Slann and Temple Guard, when you're the one who cast the spell!

I have a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

>>32544824
>So everybody is in denial?
Technically that's the case in every election ever.

>>32546615
>You're right
Except he never said that you should vote for Shillary, dumbass.

You're also proving his point. Because you have no logical argument for a rebuttal, so you resort to name-calling and making shit up because you can't stand the idea that Trump might not be this perfect candidate that you envision.

>>32530502
>Logistics and preparation are the only thing that stopped them

I get what you are saying, but the idea that logistics and planning AREN'T a vital part of an army is beyond wrong. They are probably more important in war than the actual shooty bits.

>>32530003

getting americans to die for israel

>>32530003
Alexander's fakeout at the Hydapses

>>32544879
If you happen to have a nerve agent autoinjector on you and recognize the symptoms quickly, you could fairly easily survive a lethal dose. The idea is to live long enough to get to a hospital that can help prevent damage and keep your heart and lungs operating while your CNS has a flashlight rave. Not that atropine and Co. is also fun to have in your body.

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>>32546854
Yeah I'm totally the one making stuff up.

I'm Canadian retard can't even vote in your elections, unlike the Mexicans.

>>32546591
What's interesting here is that we have a typical case of information that turned to 'common knowledge' that happens to be wrong. The CIA didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction.

>>32547233
So where were they?

>>32543940
What if you don't get laid and don't blame anyone for it?

>>32545162

actually, the strategy Varro and Paulus had taken made a little bit of sense, they were expecting Hannibal to push them against the river and envelop them against that natural barrier instead of actually stretching his troops that absurdly thin, which fit better with the pattern he had given throughout his Italian campaign.

the Roman formation was supposed to bulldoze the fuck out of the Carthaginians and stretch them to the point of breaking, but Hannibal's personal commmand of the gaul center made it happen.

>>32534277
Because having the Benny Hill song as your own personal theme song is frowned upon by commanders anymore. Also, OSHA, UCMJ, and the rest of the ridiculous rules and regulations have ensured that allowing folks to just wing it and see what happens is virtually impossible anymore. Everything must be risk-managed, focus-grouped and calculated to take the human element out of the equation.

>>32547233
Yes they did lie. Their main source of intel was an iraqi civil engineer who made up all the shit about wmds. And they knew it was bullshit too because the german and british intelligence services already told the americans that this guy is a hoax simply talking bullshit for the money.

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>>32530453

>>32546615
>Hillary "I never sent nor received classified intel" Clinton.
Those were planted by russian hackers tho.

Canadians sending hordes of un-trained burly natives dressed as elite red-coats to "attack" a walled American city during the war of 1812, only to sneak back through the woods and charge again making their numbers seem greater, resulting in the Americans surrendering.

>>32541816
Wasn't kurt meyer and his motorcycle troops involved?

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>>32541701

>>32545783
>Convincing young men that their wives faithfully wait for them at home.
No one is convinced and I don't think they care.

I went to a gangbang party once, four women, about twenty guys. Had a good time.

Afterwards we're talking about swingers etc and it turns out that nearly half the people there were ex-military and ever service was represented in some way. It was kind of surprising to me but they weren't surprised, they all said that the forces were basically big swinger communities with anyone who lives on or near base getting in on the action.

>>32546615
>You're right, we should have elected...
But that's not what we're talking about anon. We're talking about how rather than admit any faults in your candidate (because that would be admitting a fault in your judgement), you collapse into hysterics.

So you fall into this polarised view whereby your candidate must be a saint and the opponent a devil. Then you defend it with hysterical and increasingly ludicrous shitposting.

>>32547460
>calculated to take the human element out of the equation.
Be fair; if you had to take the responsibility and stopped to consider what kind of humans were IN the equation, you'd want to remove them too.

>>32543940
OY VEY!

>>32530027
FPBP

>>32534666
>what is counterbattery fire?

>>32542641
Rabbits are lagamorphs.

>>32530453

Came in here to post this

>>32530027
fpbp

>>32542823
Just like all Jews who live in Germany should be gassed, right?

>>32551532
That was released only a few hoursbefore the election was called.

>>32530027
Fpbp

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One of the better ones:
>Continuation War, 9 March 1944
>Russians are bombing Tallinn
>Finns have a secret plan
>When Russians are returning to their bases, Finnish bombers join the formation
>No one notices
>Near Leningrad request permission to land
>Still one one notices
>Bomb the shit out of Russians
>Several Russian bombers and their fuel reserves destroyed
>No own casualties
>No more mass bombings of Helsinki and Tallinn

>>32530317
The americans are really strong.

>>32530371
>Sure they could steamroll the south in a matter of weeks,

Choke points, what are they?

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>>32547199

>>32554993
Kek, more proof that russians should be exterminated, even fucking ants are smarter and better organized

>>32546591
>Like when the CIA said saddam had weapons of mass destruction?

It didn't actually do that until Dubya&Co. all but outright ORDERED them to.

And we're already seeing the sae kind of thing coming from Trump now, where's he's openly denigrating intelligence briefings that don't tell him what he wants to hear and is threatening to purge the agencies of people who won't give him briefings he likes.

Perhaps not the best, but a pretty fun one overall:

>Philipp of Macedon BTFO's the greeks harder than anything in their history.
>Sparta wasn't present, but they're shitting bricks after watching their old rival Thebes getting stomped flat wit ludicrous ease.
>Philipp tells the Spartans that there'll be consequences if he marches on their city.
>Answer: "If."

MInd you, this was long after the zenith of Sparta's power and they knew fully well that they were basically just bullshitting the Macedonians by banking on both their reputation as warrioers and for being straight-forward and unsubtle. But it worked out in the end and Philipp left them their independence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcQedw7R1zk

>>32556908
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAgrEbXtyc

>>32547199
And again you are not actually rebutting his argument and proving him right.

>>32547686
No, they did not. At least not at first. The White House simply selectively ignored anything they reported that didn't fit what Bush&Co. wanted to hear and then threatened people's careers unless they presented better intelligence.

For all intents and purposes, the White House ordered the CIA to lie to them.

>>32554348
Something that doesn't happen until there's alread shells in the air. Being able to eventually take down the nork artillery isn't enough to prevent mass casualties in Seoul. And that's before we add ballistic missiles and chemical weapons into the equation.

>>32555390
Happened to the Allies repeatedly, too. Hell, the Luftwaffe had a dedicated squadron (KG 200) flying captured machines exactly for these kinds of shenanigans on top of pulling similar stunts against night-bombing raids.

>>32556995
Dead civilians usefully absorb explosives better used on military targets. Consider for example if the ordnance used on German cities in WWII had been concentrated on POL, manufacturing, rail, Luftwaffe bases, and other more useful targets but with enough dropped on German cities to divert German resources to defend them,

Korea rebuilt itself once. It could recover from partial destruction of Seoul.

>>32530003
Byzantines convincing the Magyars to come east and crush the avars. The magyars literally NEVER caused them problems, and getting rid of the avars meant that ended a cycles of fucking massive invasions by hordes of steppeniggers and slavs.

>>32530003
your grandmother in ww2

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>>32530127
this
>tfw murricans call others cucks when they have tens of millions of illegal spics in their country
>tfw even at its most cucked your country will never dip down to 60% white

>>32530291
>Spicer-Simson suggested they be named Cat and Dog, but the names were rejected by the Admiralty.
>Spicer-Simson then suggested Mimi and Toutou as alternatives, which were accepted. As he later explained, these meant "Miaow" and "Bow-wow" in French.

What a fucking meme-lord

>>32557030
This was a bit different in that this operation was done with an assortment of Junkers Ju 88s, Dornier Do 17s and Bristol Blenheims and not captured Russian planes. One would have thought that strange looking planes with big swastikas painted on the side would have made Russians suspicious but apparently not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise

>German dams need knocking out
>no one else can do it
>raf bombers fly at ground level through hundreds of miles without fighter escorts
>altitude of only a hundred or so feet through mountains
>fly straight and level across open water whilst broadcasting location with lights needed for determining altitude
>rure dams demolished
>German industry crippled
>home in time for tea
>British insanity won the war