Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "Top 10 Military Mishaps" video.

  1. Operation Barbarossa wasn't a Mishap! It was one of the most successful military operations in World History. In the span of half a Year, an alliance lead by Germany which involved over half a dozen European Nations captured more ground, took more prisoners and inflicted more damage than any military operation in history. Within just over 6 months Russia faced it's most embarrassing defeat in it's entire history, and by the winter of 1941, Russia was hanging by a thread. If you asked anyone around the world at the time, it was a forgone conclusion in their eyes that Russia was defeated. It is almost unbelievable that the USSR was able to pull out of such a massive defeat, and a disaster for the Axis afterwards. It wasn't a mishap, it was a gross underestimation of the USSR's willingness to slaughter it's own people to achieve victory.. because that is exactly what Russia resorted to to achieve victory, it suffered more casualties than nation during the war, and relied on an endless supply of conscripts, including millions it forcefully conscripted in nations it later liberated to make up for it's insane, unimaginable loses.
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  2. ***** A Strategic blunder is Delaying Operation Citadel, which allowed the USSR to turn Kursk into a fortress.  A Strategic Blunder was deciding not to encircle Stalingrad.  A Blunder was declaring war on the USA when Japan had no interest to joining the war with the USSR and had already signed it's own none aggression pack with the USSR.  Invading the USSR by itself wasn't a blunder, it was success for the first year of the campaign.  In the end by the end of the winter of 1941, Operation Barbarossa was over, it succeeded in almost every goal it sought out to achieve.  It ended up being a series of blunders, miscalculations, and a few of Hitler's Poor decisions later on during the Russian campaign which eventually sealed the German's fate in Russia.   Not Barbarossa itself.   So to say that, Operation Barbarossa was insanely ambitious and yet so successful.  Usually when an Operation is considered a military blunder, is when a specific operation ended up becoming a failure.   Operation Market Garden rings a bell.  Operation Citadel Rings a Bell.  These were operations that could of changed the outcome of the war but ended in failure, and ended up hurting their respected factions instantly after.  Market Garden would in the end delay the allied advance into Germany being a huge waste of man power and resources.  Citadel left the German's weakened, though they suffered very first tank an aircraft loses, the German Army was running low on infantry, and infantry were the backbone of any army.  Russian counter attacks around Kursk broke the German defenses in the area, they just didn't have the man power.  
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