"Greatests" Military Blunders

[Herrmannek]

All greates losses consequential not from strenght or actions of opfor but from irrational, insane, unlucky, unready, impetuous, quarrelsome, foolhardy, and cowardly commanders or other fellow reasons.

From small in amount or old in date to bigest & newest.
Please, try to cover yours country history if you can.

Starting to search for myself
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Strange, can't recall any blunder with Poland involved in
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USA:: Operation EAGLE CLAW::1980
http://www.specwarnet.com/miscinfo/eagleclaw.htm
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Still serching for polish blunder, polish memebers help wanted
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[Gringo]

The GREATEST military blunder ever is World War One

[Seraphim]

How about relying too much on afghan forces to stop bin laden through the mountains.

What was that one where they didnt issue the guards ammo and some guy in a truck full of explosives drove through and killed a bunch of marines...I think.

[ShotOver]

How about the Allied landings at Gallipoli?

British commanders sent the boats to the wrong position, caused alot of casualties.

[budanski]

The Frog's Maginot Line: Trench warfare was SO yesterday.

[hoganshero]

in Britain channel 4 books publishes a book by geoffrey regan with this exact title. Interesting read... For my part I think the greatest military blunder which (thankfully) didn't happen, was Gen. Wesley Clark deciding to seize Pristina airport from the Russians in Kosovo. thankfully Gen. Jackson told Clark to get stuffed. Maybe it was more of a political blunder though...

[Trigger]

Not continuing on to Baghdad in Gulf War I.

[Fargin]

I vote for the Trojan horse.

[Argyll]

Are we talking blunders involving large scale Ops or smaller unit Ops?

Large scale=Gallipoli
Arnhem

Small scale=Bravo 20
=SEAL attack on the airport during Op Just cause.

[Seiyuuki]

Why the Trojan Horse?

[Argyll]

cause it causes major problems with your PC!!!!!

I agree,I thought the Trojan horse was a stroke of Military Genius!!

[Schiller]

*****sburg. Quite a bloodshed that was.

[usa320]

"Not continuing on to Baghdad in Gulf War I"

yepper...but at the time, that wasnt the objective- had we known it would bite us in the ass 11 years later, im sure we would have.

As for Operation Eagle Claw, things got very messy, but had they pulled it off, it probably would have been one of the GREATEST military operations in history, at least the greatest hostage rescue mission... It was a great plan, unfortunately it failed because of technical troubles that probably could have been avoided. Thankfully we have learned from that, and have improved the RH-53 to the MH-53J.

[Fargin]

My city is under siege,

Come dawn then enemy has vanished,

Tall before me stands a giant horse,

I'd set it on fire, maybe it's hindside talking.

j/k

[Seiyuuki]

Oh... ...I guess from the Trojan's perspective, it was a blunder.

The Arabs in the coalition forces in the Gulf War wouldn't allow us to proceed onto Badghad.