The first step of any good strategy: Grow an awesome mustache.
@sirjohnbuoy8159
3 жыл бұрын
And a pipe, obviously
@cornpop5898
3 жыл бұрын
WW1 is actually the reason those kick ass Victorian moustaches went out of style. all the regular enlisted soldiers had to shave theirs so their gas masks would seal properly and after the war they just kept on shaving. that's why a certain notorious Austrian kept his little moustache. which is sad because those Victorian dudes knew how to grow a stash!
@LostOneOmega
3 жыл бұрын
@@cornpop5898 Now, that's something I didn't know but was always curious about
@Ronnie-Jones
3 жыл бұрын
The most forbidden documentary in history;:. “Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle
@Christopher-N
3 жыл бұрын
"You're damn right there is something the matter. Something sinister and something grotesque. And what's worse is that it's going on right here under my very nose." -- General Melchett, _Blackadder Goes Forth_
@oo7patron
2 жыл бұрын
no cap i miss being in high school this is the type of shit my history teacher would put on and the class would groan but little did i know as an adult lmao the real war is being in the world staying on your shit & not staying down when you get knocked 💯
@markbrisec3972
3 жыл бұрын
In my opinion WW1 was the hardest and filthiest way of warfare for the troops on the ground in a whole human history. Sure, there were some tough battles on the Eastern front during WW2 where the unimagined winter conditions made the already horrible fighting even worse, but in a totality, I think that the trench warfare of WW1 was worse. Being ordered to come out of the trenches and charge at your enemy across the no man's land, in the face of heavy incoming machine gun and artillery fire, knowing there's absolutely no freaking way you'll survive, and even if you do survive, you won't accomplish anything, is pure horror. And those trenches you were eating, sleeping and living in, were almost just as bad as charging a loaded machine gun.. The continuous smell of rotting dead soldiers, rats all around you, biting you when you're a sleep.. And sleep, that must have been the best 20 minutes of a soldiers life since the artillery barrages went on for days, preventing you from sleeping... When I see those poor souls that got the severe cases of PTSD, also known as shell shock in those days, makes me want to cry.. One wishes he died so he doesn't have to live the rest of his days in a state of complete nervous breakdown.. And then you see the videos of those pompous officers who thought they know it all, those generals and their continuous insisting on Napoleonic war tactics against the next generation of weapons.. It wasn't by accident that general Douglas Haig was named "The Butcher of the Somme" where his "genius" tactical mind resulted in more than 20 000 dead British soldiers in a single day.. Imagine that? Loosing more soldiers in a day than our military lost in the almost 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Not only that, they lost 4 times more men in a day than we did in those 20 years... Sad.....
@GeistInTheMachine
2 жыл бұрын
It should have never been allowed to happen, but people do not learn. For both World Wars, there were cases of high ranking military members aware of the possibility of what was to come, but many times they were ignored.
@Tommerslappers
2 жыл бұрын
Ww1 was worse for the average soldier Ww2 was for the civilian
@DrNyow
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah but I don't think they hold a candle to ancient wars, imagine standing in a line and literally cutting into your enemy to bits, who because of the small population of the world, was probably related to you or at least of similar background to you.
@jeffersonott4357
2 жыл бұрын
The smell, god u are right. Dead humans, thousands of mens shit and stink… the day to day living conditions must have been so horrible… always wet. Part of the reason I’ve always wondered why so many homeless live in Portland and Seattle. I’ve been homeless for a couple months of my life, I’ve been to war, but being wet all day every day! No sir!
@mazadancoseben4818
2 жыл бұрын
Trench warfare mostly only existed in the Western Front, thankfully
@jeffersonott4357
2 жыл бұрын
I just absolutely loved the tank battle animation, and commentary. “Lumbering” and such words make it seem as if two giant toddlers were fighting on the playground, to the death.
@RealD8
3 жыл бұрын
As an American, imagine a family with someone that fought in the US Civil war, son in ww1, grandson in ww2, great grandson in Vietnam, then korea and etc, what a history
@bicepbrah8179
3 жыл бұрын
This is kinda like my family, although we have not had so many wars in Finland and Sweden. My great great grandpa was in the Imperial russian army and fought in WW1 as cavalry. He then transferred to Finland and fought against the communists. Then his son (My great grandpa) fought in the winter war and ww2 on the Axis side. Then my grandfather deployed on Cyprus with UN forces and commanded 100 men. My father served in the military but not in any war. Its my goal to continue this legacy of military in my family.
@TyberiusDe
3 жыл бұрын
For the vast majority there's a generation between the Civil War and World War I (50 years apart.) If there's a family member in the Spanish American War between that, then they probably have a very consistent military tradition in the family.
@burtbiggum499
3 жыл бұрын
Ive had family members in ww2 on up to the Iraq war
@Ricky_Baldy
Жыл бұрын
Lieutenant Dan Taylor. He had a family member die is every single American war. Except Vietnam, he survived that though severely injured.
@jetorixjones
8 ай бұрын
@@Ricky_Baldyat least he got new legs!
@rhysnichols8608
2 жыл бұрын
Tannenberg seems to be the last ‘Napoleonic’ style victory in history. It was damn impressive the Germans beat 2 Russian armies whilst outnumbered 3:1. It was like one last death throw of the old style of warfare strategy and one of the few battles that wasn’t a meat grinder for the attackers. Hats off to Ludendawg and Paul Von megastache.
@theironknight597
2 жыл бұрын
It's insane to think that such a battle was fought 100 years after Waterloo, and to still be compared to that era. If there was any doubt that war would never be the same again they were soon put to bed.
@Dilley_G45
Жыл бұрын
....they fought Samson off and made Rennenkampf ran from the Kampf (fight)
@mariusmatei2946
Жыл бұрын
"Napoleonic style"? What's that?
@davidsabillon5182
5 жыл бұрын
"I didn't know there was a strategy." Blackadder
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
You've seen that too huh?! LOL! Classic and be-fitting for this documentary!
@raphuscucullatus7845
5 жыл бұрын
*IT WILL CATCH THE WATCHFUL HUN TOTALLY OFF GUARD!*
@limeychefboy
4 жыл бұрын
"Well of course there is, how do you think our battles are directed..?" Blackadder replies" Our battles are directed?" lol
@andrewescocia2707
4 жыл бұрын
how is it that so many people look to a 30 year old sit com as historically accurate.
@LathropLdST
4 жыл бұрын
@@andrewescocia2707 have you watched the WWI season - especially the finale? No? I invite you to, then... Haig's horrid strategy is accurately depicted with the blackest humor available...
@clickbaitcabaret8208
4 жыл бұрын
Hindenburg was officially in charge, but he was a relic from another era. It was Ludendorff who actually ran the German army & by 1916, when he was promoted to quartermaster general, Ludendorff was the de facto military dictator of Germany. The Kaiser made few military decisions & Hindenburg was more for the moral of the public. The German people loved Hindenburg. He was the bigshot war hero of the Franco Prussian war & was the model image of the ideal, fatherly, even tempered Prussian soldier. Ludendorff in contrast was a high strung type, prone to anxiety, incessant fretting, fits of rage & one one occasion, a nervous breakdown (This has never been officially substantiated. His staff said he did but his doctor said he didn't.) Ludendorff worked 18+hours a day, had no social skills, no real friends, rarely went to social events, was suspicious of everyone, especially jews & was a massive control freak. He had to resign as quartermaster general (IE, the German military dictator) when his 1918 spring offensive fizzled after it's big push & the Americans finally took to the field.
@adamsmith275
3 жыл бұрын
...that glowing profile of Ludendorff is missing something... He ended up by sucking up to an Army Corporal!...
@LostOneOmega
3 жыл бұрын
@@adamsmith275 Aww... Nepotism. True measure of a man is how low he's willing to go.
@helmuthvonmoltke5518
3 жыл бұрын
He never was a real dictator, for political and executive powers still being hold by Wilhelm II and the german Parliament, the Reichstag. The Kaiser became, in his own words, a "Grüßaugust" who's only job was it to hand out medals to demoralized german soldiers on the front. This, however, totally ignores the fact that Wilhelm simply degraded himself by allowing the military leadership to take matters into their own hands. In short: the Kaiser still conzentrated enough influence and power in his own person, but never bothered using said rights and priviliges.
@michaelfugate2404
3 жыл бұрын
@@LostOneOmega easy for you to say, but think of what happened on Germany between Ludendorf's peak, and where Germany was within just 2 years of the end of WWI
@GeistInTheMachine
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds familiar.
@OldSchool1947
6 жыл бұрын
Wow! Powerful presentation of a terrible war but supernatural heroism in spite of frightful odds!
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
SUPERNATURAL... I'D SAY THAT YOU NAILED IT! ON BOTH SIDES! JUST TO GO OVER THE TOP... MAN!!!!! YEAH... YOU NAILED IT DOWN!
@raphuscucullatus7845
5 жыл бұрын
@@samuelparker9882 BRAVO!
@Ronnie-Jones
3 жыл бұрын
The most forbidden documentary in history;:. “Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle
@benjaminrush4443
3 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the Operation to block the Channel leading into the Submarine Pen. Nice Video. Thanks.
@marcboblee1863
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this video, the narration is excellent as is the original film footage. I also like the use of graphics...I have watched multiple series on this conflict and really enjoyed yours....
@IconProduction01
5 жыл бұрын
Best quote from this narrator... "The storm troops were to break through, DEEP into the enemy's rear...".
@Tom-gh8lz
4 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha time stamp please
@francislouis5999
4 жыл бұрын
Why is this funny? I'm not a native english speaker and I don't get it.
@IconProduction01
4 жыл бұрын
@@francislouis5999 "Going deep into the enemy's rear" is just funny because it sounds like a direct reference to a sexual act.... A sexual act having to do with the butthole if you catch my drift haha. You get it now?
@francislouis5999
4 жыл бұрын
@@IconProduction01 I thought it would be too obvious so I thought it's something about using wrong direction term or something like.
@IconProduction01
4 жыл бұрын
@@francislouis5999 Nope just some immature dirty minded humor :3, however legend has it they did end up going quite deep into the enemy's rear on that fateful day!!
@samsam3499
3 жыл бұрын
If your going to talk about contributions to the war why mention the Americans so much as they only arrived towards the end of the war. While they deserve some credit the Commonwealth troops did hard fighting right from 1914 and no mention is made of them. As an example Billy Bishop was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war. He was an Air Marshal and a Victoria Cross recipient. I had five family members fight in that war, only two made it back. It had a tremendous effect on our family in Canada and my Grandmother was affected by it for the rest of her life.
@addamz3277
2 жыл бұрын
I'm almost 30min in, and i hear no mention of Americans. I think you may be a little biased.. Edit: 35 min in STILL not much about Americans beside real of one pilot.. Edit AGAIN: WTH are u even talking about!? There's hardly no mention of Americans in this movie. Did you even watch it?
@eliezercohen750
2 жыл бұрын
First of all I have heard little mention of the Americans in this video. Second of all, even though they came at the very end the American forces were so significant during the war because they provided basically a million men to come in and blunt the German kaiserschlacht. If not for their actions at belleau wood and other battles during the Spring offensive, there is an argument to be made that the Germans would have broken through and got all the way to Paris at which point the French would have completely capitulated and basically the entente would have lost the war.
@shane1489
3 жыл бұрын
Seemed like the tactics ended at charging into machine gun fire. The strategy seemed like have more men than the other guys.
@mjxw
3 жыл бұрын
It really didn't though. It was a constant struggle of innovating on the offense being countered by defensive innovations. The last offensives in 1918, for instance, had all the hallmarks of what would become blitzkrieg tactics in 1939. There's a very good book "The Great War: A Combat History" by Peter Hart that I'd recommend if you're interested in it.
@shane1489
3 жыл бұрын
@@mjxw I’ll check it out... turns out it’s available at the library near my house. Thanksss!
@Johnconno
3 жыл бұрын
Well spotted! 👍
@priatalat
3 жыл бұрын
Lol the way the slow tanks were moving at each other at a snail's pace is comical to imagine.
@SkarKingg
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing comical about war
@priatalat
3 жыл бұрын
@@SkarKingg Everything is comical in the right context
@grimdimly
3 жыл бұрын
"Gentlemen..you can't fight in here, it's the war room!"
@shawn576
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the cripple fight from South park?
@marcboblee1863
2 жыл бұрын
Only just noticed this was posted 9 years ago!!!! You were well ahead of the times!!! Well done sir....
@2BachShakur
3 жыл бұрын
“Modern graphic techniques” *uses MS Paint*
@Lobos222
3 жыл бұрын
You must be an expert at MS paint if you can recreate this in THAT. LoL
@DaRyteJuan
3 жыл бұрын
Despite the very basic graphics, with the British narrator, actually quite watchable.
@AmraithNR
3 жыл бұрын
It was modern in 2012
@mcsmash4905
3 жыл бұрын
documentaries such as this one were made in the late 90's or early 2000's (before 2005 most of the time)
@Macolicious88
4 жыл бұрын
Robert Powell is the greatest narrator
@hansvandiejie
2 жыл бұрын
AS brave as Frank Luke was, he was not the top balloon buster. That was a Belgian. Willy Coppens, in a one-machine gin Henriot HD1. All but one of his over 30 victories were ballons. He lost a leg and was knited.
@argenisjimenez8118
3 жыл бұрын
Assault strategy: LEEROOYYY JEEENKINS!!
@phelixhartman2441
3 жыл бұрын
I love this world of Warcraft reference lol
@vaughanpower4538
4 ай бұрын
The tactics to move Haig's drink cabinet 20 meters north was brilliant but costly.
@kryts27
3 жыл бұрын
This is good historic revision, but the main killer on the Western front (other than diseases like typhus, dysentery and trench foot) was the high explosive shell.
@helloxyz
2 жыл бұрын
If you look at the statistics of all the major battles you will find that the vast majority of the defenders died during the initial bombardment by artillery - maybe 90%, while the vast majority of the attackers died in the initial assault, by a combination of machine gun, artillery and small arms. If battles had been called off after the bombardment but before the assault, the attacking side would have been much better off. The end result in almost all battles was equal numbers of casualties.
@Johnny_Tambourine
3 жыл бұрын
If we ever get into a war with aliens I'm gonna go ahead and guess Germany started it.
@carpetclimber4027
3 жыл бұрын
But they didn't. The infamous Konrad von Hötzendorf, the war mongering idiot in Austria-Hungary started the war. Hötzendorf had tried to start a war about 18 times before he finally got it. When prince Ferdinand was killed (of which Hötzendorf was in charge of security btw), he got his war and he failed spectacularly.
@carpetclimber4027
3 жыл бұрын
@Bob Baby I think alot of historians and people interested in history quite much agree on that ww2 started from the backlash of the incompetence of the peace treaty from ww1. To devastate a country as much as they did with Germany was really, really stupid. They thought they could humiliate Germany and make it so weak it could never wage war again. Instead it started centuries of deep agony and hatred. The biggest crime was they devastated Germany so much when it was uncalled for. They were just the ally of Austria-Hungary and all sides involved were preparing for a conflict. If the Versailles treaty would've been more forgiving and lenient, ww2 probably would've never happened.
@Johnny_Tambourine
3 жыл бұрын
@Yarp Yarp Don't be silly. The fact that the Alien had a beard exactly like my Uncle was merely a coincidence.
@politicallycorrectredskin796
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it certainly won't be Serbian Black Hand working for British MI5.
@uncovidvaxxforthestrongand3582
3 жыл бұрын
or the british if not the americans
@RedIce989
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a great video...Such a needless loss of life so many perished
@kanifalam7835
4 жыл бұрын
Funny how trench warfare in Ww1 causes mining just like the US Civil War 50 years before. And just like that war, the advantages of blowing up the mine weren't exploited.
@ryanjones9498
4 жыл бұрын
God it would be so tempting to be a pilot with a plane and a full tank of gas and not just fly away as far as you could.
@fdsfggr
2 жыл бұрын
there are still some mines that never detonated in france XD its crazy
@Ronbo710
4 жыл бұрын
Great narrator voice here.
@lawrencetaylor4101
3 жыл бұрын
Great? Proper British accent to announce that 1 million people were killed and then is sad since the strategy didn't work. The PR tells us that that is the "civilized" way. I've decided otherwise.
@TyberiusDe
3 жыл бұрын
Robert Powell, probably my favorite narrator. Did "world War II in colour" "a century of warfare" plus many more
@Rohilla313
3 жыл бұрын
@@TyberiusDe Fantastic actor as well.
@jebbroham1776
4 жыл бұрын
The Germans were smart and had the capabilities to win the war. The only thing that killed them in the end was that by the time they finally broke away from a two front war and were able to focus entirely on the Western Front it was too late. The Doughboys had already arrived in France.
@jebbroham1776
4 жыл бұрын
@callyharley Don't forget Americans. We were there in force by spring 1918.
@jebbroham1776
4 жыл бұрын
@callyharley We were certainly there well before the collapse of the German Empire, but that's beside the point. People always bitch at us for not including the British, Canadians, supposedly French, and Brazilians, and Spanish, and kinds of fucking countries who were supposedly present during the Normandy landings every time we talk about it, so it's only fair that they acknowledge we were on the European continent well before the collapse of Germany in WW1. We saved Europe TWICE in a single generation, and that is significant.
@jebbroham1776
4 жыл бұрын
@callyharley It's not our fault Hitler was an idiot! He had absolutely ZERO obligation to declare war on us because Japan hadn't been attacked at Pearl Harbor, they were the aggressor. Per the Tripartite Pact of 1940, Germany was not obligated to come to the aid of either Italy or Japan unless those nations were directly attacked, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was not grounds for such a declaration.
@sennedekoning2991
3 жыл бұрын
Jeb Broham “ we saved Europe twice in a single generation “ should I laugh or should I cry. American education has failed ...
@jebbroham1776
3 жыл бұрын
@@sennedekoning2991 there's no question that we saved the world in the Second World War. There's no plausible argument against it.
@biteof78
6 жыл бұрын
Such a underrated video man.
@IconProduction01
5 жыл бұрын
Yea man.
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
There's a GREAT Mr. BEAN ( BLACK ADDER episode ) I think comedy skit about WW1 tatics and strategies. It's a classic. A must see... especially after this documentary. LOL! I AGREE WITH YOUR STATEMENT AS WELL.
@guyr.gormley9344
5 жыл бұрын
It's honestly sad that people really believe tactics never changed in ww1, the British basically wrote modern day infantry platoon tactics with ss143 and the tactic of the creeping barrage
@l.h.9747
5 жыл бұрын
But the creeping barrage was made by the germans like the stormtrooper tactics
@drummerdoingstuff5020
4 жыл бұрын
The Prussians did a bit..
@alganhar1
4 жыл бұрын
@@l.h.9747 Both were actually independantly conceived by multiple different armies at around the same time. The German army was the first to *use* the Creeping Barrage, but the concept was in development by the British and french armies at the same times. As for Stormtrooper tactics, again, all the armies were developing tactics similar to the Stormtrooper tactics simultaneously. Where the Germans really differed is that they took the best men from every Division and formed them into dedicated Stormtrooper Divisions, the British trained *every* soldier in the same kind of tactics. While this meant the German Stormtrooper Divisions were probably better, they were also more fragile and far less able to recover from the horrific losses they sustained in the Spring Offensives. Everyone knows about the Stormtrooper Divisions, and almost everyone is utterly ignorant of the fact that Infiltration and combined arms tactics were a core part of the training of EVERY British soldier of 1917 and 1918, thus people gain the perception, the *false* perception, that the Germans came up with the idea first. They did not, these ideas were circulating around all the armies, and were being constantly refined by all the various armies that fought during the war, changed here and there depending on the tactical issues they faced.
@andrewescocia2707
4 жыл бұрын
@@l.h.9747 point still stands, lots of innovations in the way the war was fought over the 4 years tho.
@terraflow__bryanburdo4547
4 жыл бұрын
@@andrewescocia2707 I think that people think there was little tactical development because of how the battle lines were so static for over three years. It seems that there were innovations, which were quickly picked up by the opponent, who could quickly counterstroke with similar tactics, and so on. Tit-for-tat as it were, not a stalemate of ideas so much as a stalemate of overall momentum. Whereas WWII never had much stasis, the Axis used momentum much more effectively and the internal combustion revolution threw momentum inexorably with the attacker, at least for periods of time.
@tankc6474
3 жыл бұрын
Top class documentary
@mindtravelIer
4 жыл бұрын
youtube recommendations, you've done it again
@ditto1958
2 жыл бұрын
The Great War is frustrating to study, because with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight it seems so obvious the things that could have been done differently to change things and to have avoided millions and millions of unnecessary casualties. Yes, tactics did change over the course of the war- no, charging machine guns while wearing red hats and trousers did not continue on for 4 straight years. Things did change, but they didn’t change enough; moreover, technology needed more time to catch up.
@benjamincase109
8 ай бұрын
Great documentary
@makutas-v261
3 жыл бұрын
Glory to the Kaiser
@jessedobbins5939
3 жыл бұрын
The aces memorandum missed one Canadian hero. Capt Billy Bishop
@YongyoonKim
3 жыл бұрын
Wut
@Gkm-
3 жыл бұрын
positive outcome of World War I was the boost received by research and technology. Rail and automobile transport, radio and wireless communications, research and development of weapons and arms, including nuclear research, boomed.
@fantomnite2528
2 жыл бұрын
But in turn for that we also created a new much more intense form of warfare, which again was intensified by ww2 20 years later. Not exactly worth it considering it destroyed an entire generation?
@davidtrindle6473
3 жыл бұрын
From their looks, strategy #1 must be “eat way too much sausage”
@scotthorning1180
3 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the pretzels and beer
@scotthorning1180
3 жыл бұрын
And pretzels and beer and mom pan pan music.
@Christopher-N
3 жыл бұрын
Capt Darling: [unable to sleep] Thinking about the push, sir, hoping the Boche will forget to set their alarm clocks, oversleep, and still be in their pyjamas when our boys turn up, sir. (excerpt from _Blackadder Goes Forth,_ 1989)
@Lobos222
3 жыл бұрын
+David. I think one of them was used in the Indiana movies. You know the rolling bolder trap...
@BaBy_ShoWeR
3 жыл бұрын
David fuckin Trindle ole Santa Monica highs class clown, how the hell have you been DT haven't seen you since.......
@toddgrafton4070
2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the Monitor vs Merrimack the first armored battle?
@thomaslinton5765
3 жыл бұрын
Mines were centuries old by 1916. See Seige of Jerusalem, 37 B.C.
@shengyi1701
3 жыл бұрын
Zeebrugge operation would be repeated in WW2 in the famous raid at St.Nazaire
@moneyandtimefreedom3352
3 жыл бұрын
What a hellish war, such indiscriminate killing. What may have come of these young men.
@YorkieKDS
3 жыл бұрын
Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor!
@bolivar2153
3 жыл бұрын
@@YorkieKDS With regards to Britain, 264 Members of Parliament volunteered for active service in the war. That's 40% of Parliaments sitting members. 20 of these MP's, and 4 former MP's, were killed on active service. The first MP to die was the Hon. Arthur Edward Bruce O’Neill, Unionist MP for Mid Antrim, who was killed in action near Ypres on 6 November 1914. The youngest MP to die was the Hon. Charles Thomas Mills, who was 28 years old when he was killed in action on 6 October 1915 during the Battle of Loos. The oldest MP to be killed in action was William Hoey Kearney Redmond, who was 56 years old when he died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Messines in Belgium. Overall figures for those who served and who were killed tally with the national averages as a whole. Note : None of these men _had_ to serve. As members of parliament, they were all exempt from service. They all volunteered for service.
@YorkieKDS
3 жыл бұрын
@@bolivar2153 First of all I would like to thank you for your detailed reply, I am aware of some of the figures you have quoted. However I would invite you to google the quote I have written and thus see my comment in the spirit it was intended. \m/
@bolivar2153
3 жыл бұрын
@@YorkieKDS I appreciate the spirit and sentiment behind the quote, I really do. I just thought it pertinent to express the reality of the situation as it applied to Britain, at least, during the war. :-)
@ylstorage7085
3 жыл бұрын
@20:50 cutest moment of a "cute little panzer"
@shawn576
3 жыл бұрын
It's weird to think that a tank going 3mph could actually do anything. The guys in WW2 were able to fire AA guns like the flak 88 and take out tanks that move 5x faster, so hitting a WW1 tank should be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
@angelamagnus6615
3 жыл бұрын
Back then anti tank warfare was non existent, I took several decades to develop effective counter measures.
@ITSMRFOXY
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Artillery made the old british tanks free kills.
@deerkaiser9983
2 жыл бұрын
@@angelamagnus6615 Anti tank rifles were developed not long after the first deployment of tanks in the battle of the Somme, they were pretty effective but difficult to use. Artillery was also good at hitting the slow moving tanks but spotters and gunners needed good coordination to hit a moving target and so with WW1 technologies it wasn't always easy, especially in the middle of a battle where communication could have been cut at any moment
@mariusmatei2946
Жыл бұрын
What's Weird is your comment; Obviously, you've got No (Historical) Perspective!
@Adrian-qk2fn
Жыл бұрын
Yes, IF you had an artillery gun that could be moved through mud and the trenches into position to be able to fire upon those tanks without exposing yourself to the enemy's Counter Battery Fire. Remember, the circumstances are entirely different. In the Second World War the guns- including 88's- were specially designed for Mobile Warfare and were moved into position by motorized vehicles including specialized tractors. They would also have had the benefit of radio telecommunication and they would not have been emplaced within fixed positions. In the First World War NONE of that applied. The Germans did not have the Fire Control to be able to fire at advancing tanks from well behind their own Front Lines. To hit a tank you would need an artillery piece capable of firing on a flat trajectory. They would have to be emplaced within the Front Line Trenches and you would have the difficulty of emplacing them. Worse, all of this would be done under the Observation of the British and French through Observation Balloons and Aerial Patrols. Further, you are forgetting that each Tank Attack would be preceded and supported by an Artillery Barrage designed to suppress the German's Artillery. Yes, tanks would be still vulnerable- but they were a damn sight LESS vulnerable than the infantry had been in the earlier offensives when crossing No-Man's Land.
@thomaslinton5765
3 жыл бұрын
The fortresses involved in the WWI Battle of Verdun were begun in 1885 - hardly the "15th century" that you claim.
@partygrove5321
2 жыл бұрын
Original castles
@thomaslinton5765
2 жыл бұрын
@@partygrove5321 Just not the fortifications of Verdun .
@partygrove5321
2 жыл бұрын
@@thomaslinton5765 True, but he meant when the French first started fortifying the town
@thomaslinton5765
2 жыл бұрын
@@partygrove5321 Long gone. Whatever he meant and did not say, what he said was wrong.
@chestermicek
5 жыл бұрын
It looks to me like some of those Pickle-helmeted, Prussian generals should have included "Weight Watchers" in their strategy.
@andrewescocia2707
4 жыл бұрын
savage:)
@rhysnichols8608
2 жыл бұрын
They were too busy fighting against the rest of the civilised world and inflicting a 2:1 casualty ratio to care about their belt line ;)
@mspicer3262
2 жыл бұрын
unbelievable, you list Albert Ball (44 kills), Georges Guynemere (53 kills) and Eddie Rickenbacker (26 kills), but forget Billy Bishop (72 kills) and Rene Fonck (76 kills)... seriously? you just never heard of the two top Allied aces?
@factsmachine9905
2 жыл бұрын
Wow I can’t believe you summed up all of ww1 stuff tactics and strategy into a fifty minute 26 second video
@willyD200
2 жыл бұрын
While it does have some decent coverage , graphics , film and photography footage , it's a far cry from ," all wwI stuff, " but it does , as you mention, contain a good variety of various aspects within a short time frame. Especially enjoyed some of tbe unique tank coverage . There's a great number of books that cover every aspect, in depth of this war.
@MG-fr3tn
3 жыл бұрын
What about a video about wounds infections and pain. And who gets rich who does and economics when it's all over and why and who wanted it.
@davidkeeton215
3 жыл бұрын
I saw the thumbnail and thought this was an old episode of The Benny Hill Show.
@TheOriginalJphyper
4 жыл бұрын
They act like the submarine was a WWI invention. This couldn't be further from the truth. The first military submarine was the Turtle, which was used by the Americans during the Revolutionary War. The American Civil War saw extensive use of submarines by both sides. Non-military submarines date back even further.
@LathropLdST
4 жыл бұрын
The submarine was unreliable prior due to a series of issues, what can be said was that WWI was the first war where the submarines had a solid impact instead of being a potential liability. Unless you consider the Atlantic warfare against commercial vessels a success.
@TheOriginalJphyper
4 жыл бұрын
@@LathropLdST And that's the sort of thing they should have specified, not pretended prior subs didn't exist at all.
@tonyromano6220
3 жыл бұрын
Lol, ok....
@tonyromano6220
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheOriginalJphyper you need to free up your mind and be less rigid.
@TheOriginalJphyper
3 жыл бұрын
@@tonyromano6220 How is pointing out facts and trivia evidence of a rigid mind?
@morningstar9233
3 жыл бұрын
Looks like the strategy of the two guys in the thumbnail was to eat the enemy.
@ElectronicsGuy666
3 жыл бұрын
Augustus! Please don’t drink out of my chocolate river!
@tobykidwell5998
Жыл бұрын
History is stranger than fiction
@lydiamalone1859
3 жыл бұрын
The Machine Gun concept was invented during the American Civil War. It just wasn't mass produced in time
@peterclark6290
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone over 35 should be nowhere near soldiers and sailors. For a start they will be fighting the last war anyway, pleasing their old commanders. Case in point: The introduction of the tank. Had a team of young officers and senior NCOs (with battlefield promotions) been given the job of appraising, testing and advising the development by the Engineers and Designers of the Mark 1 their experience would have produced a war winner on the first assault. Instead bureaucrats and the frustrated (overlooked, dismissed, unsuited commanders) rushed in a pathetic prototype. As I imagine it a younger team would have included troop carriers and support vehicles with a similar chassis, tactics, maintenance protocols, support essentials, etc. Fundamentally the old guard allowed loyalty to slaughter millions. Principle: Loyalty can only be successfully applied to ideals, concepts, professions - when it is applied to people it undermines.
@user-cd4bx6uq1y
2 жыл бұрын
9 year 340k 2.6k 312th. This was quite nice.
@raduandrei5867
2 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@samuelenglander8367
2 жыл бұрын
love field marshal paul von hidenburg 6 6 tall jawohl herr field marshal i respect him
@xxsoftbeanzxx
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone here because of a history assignment
@frankiemakinster2830
3 жыл бұрын
Nope, 72 years young
@jamesanonymous2343
2 жыл бұрын
NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME !
@charliebrown1006
3 жыл бұрын
Technology came unbelievably far in 100 years.
@dirtyharry1881
2 жыл бұрын
"in color... as it really happened" In case some of you thought that those times were really black and white.
@mikeeverhart831
3 жыл бұрын
First , apparently eat way too much strudel.
@rhysnichols8608
2 жыл бұрын
They made fools out of the Russian army and changed the military handbooks forever, so much that US army officers have mandatory reading of their tactics even now days, so try to respect men who are your superiors ;)
@Dietpepsiahh
3 жыл бұрын
I love the music!
@joejohnston3591
2 жыл бұрын
German flamethrowers= French roast!
@carl156
3 жыл бұрын
line up get shot... nice tactics
@illbeburningstar1
3 жыл бұрын
32:12 well that caught me a little off guard lol
@stargazer4683
2 жыл бұрын
Tunnel warfare is scary AF!!!!
@ironknightgaming5706
Жыл бұрын
The fact that after only 100 years we evolved from this to drone warfare/
@rigulur
3 жыл бұрын
Female lockerrooms: BRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRTRRTRRTRRTRRTRT Male lockerrooms: BOOOOMPH x2
@politicallycorrectredskin796
3 жыл бұрын
Clearly WWI needed more transsexual bathrooms!
@kolloduke3341
4 жыл бұрын
In a house down in england a man leaves his girl , his parents and later his life ! He died on his first day as a tank commander . His lady friend was going to tell him on his return that she was going to marry him . A sad episode from our deeply shocking history !..I am 55 perhaps when my generation and the one before me dies out maybe then we can stop this world ordered slaughter ..
@jebbroham1776
4 жыл бұрын
There will never be an end to war, nor to the blood shed by men who carry the bravery and pride of nations in their hearts.
@LostOneOmega
3 жыл бұрын
Humans are good at two things: fighting and fucking.
@Ronnie-Jones
3 жыл бұрын
The most forbidden documentary in history;:. “Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org archive.org/details/EUROPATheLastBattle
@nezircaglar2381
3 жыл бұрын
ww1 tactics and strategy must be watched
@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13
2 жыл бұрын
Germany apparently didn't have any weight standards for the military. Sheesh.
@poodlesrock6552
6 жыл бұрын
The lack of adaptation of the war tactics and strategy in the WWI the problem in the massacre of millions. I can only be humble in the face of the courage of the humans who sacrificed their life and health with another useless war. This over-riding idea of braveness and patriotism has always been exploited by those in power.
@mariarice4916
6 жыл бұрын
there were enormous innovations ... new tecnologies and operational tactics over the four years of this terrible war...just some very simple basic research will show you that my friend.
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
Your last 3 sentences... COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER BROTHER!!
@samuelparker9882
5 жыл бұрын
@@mariarice4916 Innovations and proto-type usage or frames is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than usable, battlefield tested thing or machinery my man. Because they TRULY didn't start to use or change tactics until the very last 18 TO 16 months of warfare. Even in the beginning of ww2 the French and English had NOT CHANGED their FIGHTING or even their OUTLOOK on warfare. Which is why they were soundly beat in the early campaigns of that conflict.
@mariarice4916
5 жыл бұрын
@@samuelparker9882 once again my friend.....some simple internet research will show you are mistaken...just off the top of my mind..can think of gas in 1915...tanks in early 1916...the creeping barrage etc.....quite significant changes and 18 months towards the end of this war.
@chestermicek
5 жыл бұрын
Poodles rock, did you know that French soldiers began braying like sheep led to slaughter at certain battles? In certain battles, German artillery & machine guns killed a man a minute. They weren't brave; they were prisoners and victims of the French War Machine. They either went to the front or they were shot. That was their choice. That's why they brayed like sheep. They knew they were being slaughtered at the Somme, Ypres, Verdun, etc.
@ralphbernhard1757
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, in history, one must often "start" at the consequences of own actions, in order to point out mistakes which happened along the way. In the big picture of things, spotting mistakes as a contemporary witness is far more difficult. True today. True at any point in history. Furthermore, in order to "avoid history repeating itself", one must first admit that mistakes were made. Also own mistakes. Because, according to biblical logic: only by "removing the splinters from own eyes", can we avoid "sowing seeds", which we all "reap" at some point. So here is how European reign and domination of the world ended in 1945, and a few subsequent years (short version, longer version below): *At the end of WW2, the USA (American Century) refused to honor an important treaty Western Allied leaders had made in Quebec.* A treaty/agreement almost nobody had ever heard about. With that, Washington DC intended to become the sole nuclear power, and not share (as promised per treaty) nukes with London/GB/Empire. By doing so, the new alpha stated that it did not want an equal power at eye level. They wanted a "junior partner". And with that, they became the new alpha. Rule Britania, repealed and replaced by the American Century. Pax Britannica, replaced by Pax Americana. Rule the Waves? Let's put it this way. No more "Two Power Standard". Who had "the bigger one"? :-) Washington DC (The American century) was in a position to "tear up a scrap of paper" and not care what anybody in "old Europe" thought about it. Washington Internationalism/The American Century, the other "new power" which had risen across the Atlantic, whose position was basically "observe calmly, secure our position, cope with affairs calmly, hide our capacities and bide our time, be good at maintaining a low profile, and never claim leadership.” It's interesting to google that quote. Of course it refers to a timeless political strategy, which is true at all times, and explains a lot about the headlines we see in the papers today. Anyway... Re. the concept of "being able to spot an anomaly" as history unfolded forward. Of course, it does not "happen backwards", but there is a timeline. Machiavelli's "balance of power". Of course Machiavelli didn't invent the concept of "balance of power", but was one of the first to put it down in words in western literature. *Would a true Machiavelli have ignored the noticeable change/shift in the "balance" of the powers at around the turn of the Century?* Note that the reality of the time was that while GB/Empire and the rising USA were roughly equal in "power" at the time (around 1900), only one of these 2 "powers" had the potential to hang on to her power as the world noticeably changed around the contemporary witnesses at the time, and at least for wise leaders, also in the foreseeable future (Washington DC as the firmly established soft power "master/hegemon" in the Americas, vs. London the "still master" of an outdated 1,000+ year old colonial model). Would a true Machiavelli have snuggled up to a power without being able to "leverage/hedge" any deal (treaty/accord/agreement/etc.) it made? Would a true Machiavelli have relied on "appeals to emotion" (like "everybody speaking English") to ensure a dominant position? Last time I checked, "snuggling up" without also being in a position to "leverage" and/or "hedge" a deal, wasn't in the book (The Prince).
@europadefender
3 жыл бұрын
Epic
@isacchris1
3 жыл бұрын
The first British tunnel company’s originally dug sewers and they definitely weren’t coal miners!
@silvergalaxie
Жыл бұрын
What series is this audio from?
@johnmassoud930
4 жыл бұрын
What a waste of human life.
@macewills80
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I know. So many people died while this video was being made...
@politicallycorrectredskin796
3 жыл бұрын
Not once you realize what the plan was.
@kaseybrown7664
3 жыл бұрын
@11:00 got that background music from Looney Toons. Expecting a rabbit to pop up any moment and ask the soldiers what they're doing.
@isaiahwolftail867
5 жыл бұрын
How fast do you think they drop and how high they went if they were whole.
@humbleone6405
3 жыл бұрын
Hell with the thumbnail picture , I would say tactics and strategies were eating everything in sight...jeez who gave them uniforms..tent makers
@darrellbridges725
4 жыл бұрын
Anybody know the name of the narrator??
@kevinhorn9682
4 жыл бұрын
Robert powell
@arasseo_wakarimashita3904
5 жыл бұрын
First modern warfare
@IconProduction01
5 жыл бұрын
Technically every war is "modern" at the time it's occurring....
@arasseo_wakarimashita3904
5 жыл бұрын
@@IconProduction01 tatics and style is what our present military using nowadays...that is why its called modern warfare...old war is more on filling infantry, using horse, using canon in file, at the end of 18th century war evolved...wwi was the first war showcased war what we see in iraq and afghanistan today
@stevepincombe3836
4 жыл бұрын
The American Civil War went from Napoleonic style warfare to trench warfare and gatling guns. This foreshadowed the tactics of WWI.
@alganhar1
4 жыл бұрын
@@stevepincombe3836 Nowhere even close. The best way to look at how WWI changed how wars are fought is to look at the Infantry Platoon. In 1914, in most armies the Infantry platoon was not a tactical unit, it was an adminstrative one, in many armies it did not even have a permanent Officer Commanding, Lieutenants (or their equivilant) being assigned to platoons on an ad hoc basis when required. Like the platoon the Squad (or Section if you are British) was also more an adminsitrative than a tactical unit. In the British Army a Squad consisted of 8 riflemen and a Corporal. The Infantry Platoon was comprised of only rifle Squads. You look at the Company level, and again, all riflemen (except the officers pistols). Look at the Battalion and again mostly riflemen, though you did have a Machinegun Company. The MG Company was assigned by the Battalion Commander and was not under the command of any of the other Company COmmanders. By 1918 a British Infantry Platoon was a different beast, it was smaller for a start. More importantly its very structure had changed. You still had two rifle sections, but these now comprised of a Lewis Gunner, a secondary gunner, two carriers (for ammunition for the gun, armed with a rifle), four riflemen and a corporal. In addition there was a Lewis Gun Section, which numbered two gunners, two assistant gunners, four carriers and a corporal. There was a Grenadier section, a rifle grenadier section, a mortar section, and finally the HQ section. You see? That structure is very similar in many ways to a modern Infantry Platoon. Notice how the firepower has increased, a single platoon in 1918 had almost as many MG's as a Battalion in 1914. Then there are the grenades and mortars! In 1914 the Stokes type Mortar now so familiar to infantrymen did not exist. Neither did rifle grenades used by the rifle grenade section. Another major difference between the American Civil War and WWI is weapon lethality. Sure, the rifles of the Civil War had better range and were more accurate than Napoleonic weapons, but their rate of fire was not that much better. They were still mostly muzzle loaded. It is the same with the Artillery, longer range, but still mostly muzzle loaded. By 1914 you had magazine fed bolt action rifles that could rapid fire 20 rounds a minute and retain lethality out to an effective range of 800 yards (though still kill far beond that). The artillery was even worse, the Quick firing field artillery had better range, and could burst fire at 12 - 15 rounds a minute, not that much slower than the riflemen could fire. Even worse, these are all using smokeless powders which allowed for MUCH higher projectile velocities, which meant that the amount of solid earth you needed in front of you to protect you from incoming fire was MUCH higher than had been required in the US Civil War. Trenches are almost as old as warfare, especially when it comes to seiges. Do NOT mistake the Civil War Trenches for those of WWI, they were a completely different beast entirely. the US Civil War did NOT change the very nature of Infantry Platoons, or the weapons found in those platoons, WWI did. It marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one of the great tragedies of WWI is that it happened at the cusp of a huge revolution in the methods of killing and defence, but the technologies of Command and Control had not yet caught up. In 1918 for example a radio weighed 2,000 lb and had to be carried in two lorries. Try getting THAT across no mans land! Other than size there is not that much difference between a Lewis gun of 1918 and a modern Squad Support Weapon, but in 1918 the most reliable method for attacking troops to communicate with their commanders were runners and pigeons (the telephone wires tended to get cut by artillery).
@Shortsforcat
Жыл бұрын
In Greek mythology if you have a small peepee you are destined to be great commender
@thomasflanagan729
14 күн бұрын
Can't hardly hear the narrator over the music !
@donaldgoodinson7550
3 жыл бұрын
No mention of Willie Coppens the ace balloon buster.Is this because he was not American?
@allendove8244
3 жыл бұрын
It didn’t include the treadmill from that thumbnail
@NewDawnReaper
3 жыл бұрын
Very good one, but I have to say it. Ww1 what and what?
@sebulller
3 жыл бұрын
Ww1 tactics erm charge? Walk get shot retur with wounds?
@larry1824
Жыл бұрын
Face guys make war...after dinner
@sleddy01
3 жыл бұрын
9:26 'fizzled out' ?
@jacobstewart3428
5 жыл бұрын
I don't think this need to be 50 minutes long. All they did was artillery barrage the dog piss out of them and then just send human waves of dudes and hope it works.
@andrewarmstrong8651
4 жыл бұрын
Jacob Stewart how did you find this out it's top secret.
@pfcsantiago8852
3 жыл бұрын
Walk slowly towards machine gun fire.
@thegoodhopegroupthegoodhop5637
3 жыл бұрын
Historians never go behind the scenes as to who funded the War and who really stood to benefit from the War.
@makutas-v261
3 жыл бұрын
triple parenthesis
@thegoodhopegroupthegoodhop5637
3 жыл бұрын
@@makutas-v261 Not really, more like a continuation for those who have the ability to think for themselves. Triple continuation.
@makutas-v261
3 жыл бұрын
@@thegoodhopegroupthegoodhop5637 Look up triple parenthesis to see what I mean
@jimmytwotime8004
3 жыл бұрын
Corbett Report does a great job of explaining the behind the scenes. Thought provoking and scary stuff that.
@thegoodhopegroupthegoodhop5637
3 жыл бұрын
@@jimmytwotime8004 Sorry, I didn't pick it up, who did he say funded the War effort on both sides?
@lawrencewilliams1477
3 жыл бұрын
TALK ABOUT ORGANISED CRIME ALL MAN MADE MAD MEN
@thomasaquinas5262
3 жыл бұрын
No war displayed more ineptness among 'educated' leaders than WW1. How long should it have taken to realize you don't throw soldiers against entrenched machine guns and barbed wire? Oddly, the Germans had the best strategic planning, allowing them to roll up the Russians before turning West. A pity their offensive before the Americans arrived failed just short of victory. A German victory would've precluded Adolph, WW2 and the horrible costs and losses of said conflagration.
@l.h.9747
6 жыл бұрын
sadly they didnt mention the austro hungarian fly ace Godwin Brumowski
@MrZip420
3 жыл бұрын
guys this documentary is quite old, your repetitive jokes aren't very funny.
@swolaireswaggins2308
3 жыл бұрын
Everywhere you go you see repetition of overused jokes. Everyone is trying to be funny but hardly anyone wants actual discourse
@ZZz-jq4tt
3 жыл бұрын
an eighth grade history report.
@theklrdudeoo9173
3 жыл бұрын
there is basically only one tactic , the bigger your wallet the further back you are !
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