Military blunders and bizarre victories

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>>34065425

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>>34065430
Crazy shit like this too.

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>>34065425
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

>>34065425
I think there was once a major fuck up during the Battle of Remagen, at Ludendorff bridge, where both the Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht couldn't command the anti-aircraft batteries with 20mm guns because the batteries only reported to the Luftwaffe, and the Luftwaffe commander of those batteries had left 6 weeks ago because of the allied advance or something.

>>34065563
I always laugh at how England gets involved and Scotland goes "OH SHIT LADDIE WE'RE JUMPIN IN TOO!"

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everybody hurts

>>34065798
how

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>>34065798
Hurts? You're hurting me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S44dGltUfVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqNfk5Lh8xA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnA552tMV8g
I've heard, though I don't know how true it is, that the reason the Chechen knows the Russian's name is Alik is that they were friends before the Chechen War.

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>>34065895
>chinese send a million troops in korea
>send a third of them to pyongyang after being unable to overcome some defenses in the north
>korean general feigns retreat to the salsu river
>flow of the river had been cut off with a dam
>dam opened as the chinese troops were halfway across
>after chinese get fucked, cavalry are sent in to mop up the rest
>some more die hauling ass back to china

>>34065798
everybody cries

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Less blunder/bizarre, more absolute badassery.
>the Knights Hospitaller, circa 1291
>Acre just got fucked hard
>Decide to go to Cyprus
>Stay here for 20 years, until you get bored and take the isle of Rhodes
>the Sultan of Egypt is pissed, and tries to invade you in 1444, fails miserably
>Now, the goddamn Ottoman empire comes in circa 1480
>Hot off taking Constantinople, the un-invadable city, the Ottomans put you at #1 on their shitlist
>They also fail miserably.
It gets better.
>The ottomans come back in 1522, with 400 motherfucking ships, and anywhere between 100000 and 200000 men
>The knights had 7000
>Despite ultimately losing, it takes six goddamn months for the ottomans to finally beat these guys
But wait, there's more
>After losing Rhodes, the knights move to Malta in 1530
>This pretty quickly gets the ottomans pissed, and they send 40000 men against the 700 knights and 8000 soldiers.
>roughly 130000 cannonballs were fired during the 4 month siege, and by all accounts the knights laughed off most attacks
>the ottomans finally throw up their hands and leave

>>34065754
toppest kek

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>>34065425

>>34066097
What the fuck is this person trying to say? This is some google translate level shit

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>The Maikop Raid

>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by Adrian von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.

>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.

>>34065425
>bizarre victories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_Field,_South_Australia