20 Biggest Military Mistakes That Shouldn't Have Happened

Описание: 338,000 Allied soldiers. Trapped at Dunkirk. The tanks stopped 3 miles away — and nobody has ever fully explained why. That decision alone changed the outcome of World War II.
But it wasn't the only one.

This video covers 20 of the most catastrophic military decisions in history — made by real generals, with real ranks, who had the evidence in front of them and ignored it anyway. The Maginot Line that cost $9 billion and was never breached — just irrelevant. The Soviet intelligence warnings Stalin dismissed 84 times. The British guns at Singapore that couldn't rotate to face the enemy. The CIA invasion plan that was published in The New York Times before it launched.
These weren't accidents. They were decisions. Made by the people with the most authority and the worst judgment in the room.
And most of them kept their careers.

⬇️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 — Introduction: 20 Biggest Military Blunders They Never Explained to You
01:06 — #1 Stalin: The Grand Idiot Who Ignored 84 Warnings Before Barbarossa (1941)
03:53 — #2 The Maginot Line: The Most Expensive Military Blunder That Germany Just Walked Around (1940)
06:02 — #3 The Somme: One Day, 60,000 Casualties — The Stupidest Day in British Military History (1916)
08:35 — #4 Gallipoli: Churchill’s Genius Plan That Turned Into a Massacre (1915)
11:05 — #5 The Fall of Singapore: The British “Genius” Who Pointed the Guns the Wrong Way (1942)
13:17 — #6 Pearl Harbor: Japan’s “Perfect Victory” That Woke Up a Sleeping Superpower (1941)
15:52 — #7 Charge of the Light Brigade: The Order from Idiots That Sent Cavalry to Suicide (1854)
18:12 — #8 The Spanish Armada: God’s “Chosen Fleet” Sunk by Weather and Arrogance (1588)
20:14 — #9 The Zimmermann Telegram: Germany Invites Mexico to Invade the US — And Hands Washington a Gift (1917)
22:41 — #10 Pickett’s Charge: 15 Minutes of Idiocy That Lost the Civil War for the South (1863)
24:53 — #11 Agincourt: Heavy Armor, Mud, and Pride — How French Elites Got Themselves Slaughtered (1415)
27:22 — #12 Isandlwana: Ammunition Box Screws and British Arrogance Destroy an Entire Regiment (1879)
29:52 — #13 MacArthur in Korea: The General Who Ignored China and Blew Up His Own Victory (1950)
32:20 — #14 Cannae: Hannibal Destroys 70,000 Romans — The Blueprint for Total Annihilation (216 BC)
35:00 — #15 Bay of Pigs: The CIA Coup Everyone Knew About — and Castro Watched Live (1961)
37:44 — #16 Custer at Little Bighorn: The Ego That Ignored the Scouts and Met a Larger Army (1876)
39:37 — #17 Operation Market Garden: The “Bridge Too Far” That Turned Victory into a Disaster (1944)
43:24 -- #18 Napoleon in Russia: He Knew the Winter Would Kill Him and Marched Anyway (1812)
44:58 — #20 Hitler’s Halt Order at Dunkirk: The One Decision That Saved 340,000 Enemies (1940)

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