Comments by "Bullet-Tooth Tony" (@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-) on "Why This Was Britain's Worst Military Disaster Ever | INTEL" video.

Most of those British troops in Singapore were so poorly trained and undisciplined putting shame to the better trained lads who fought tooth and nail in North Africa and elsewhere, if you want an example of how hard the British actually fight in combat read up the Battle of Mons, Battle of Kohima and Battle of Arnhem. Both entailed British infantry holding out against overwhelming numbers for several days ( Arnhem in particular lasted 9 days). If you had sent troops like that to defend Singapore they would given the Japanese army a run for their money.
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@radiozvrk6784 LOL what no influence? Erm 5th largest economy in the world, 2nd strongest military in NATO, 1st strongest in Europe, permanent seat on the UN Security Council giving us veto power, Nuclear power, most spoken language in the modern world, has one of the largest international financial centres in the world, 3 of the best universities in the world Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial college, Many governments and legal systems are modelled of ours and still look to ours. Everyone knows who boris is. And there's the royals. The whole world tuned into the royal wedding. Wait and see the world reaction when the Queen dies and then see for yourself the influence that will have on global events. Our sportsmen and women are amongst the best in the world. Premier league football in England is the most famous. Tennis, golf, motorsports are all heavily influenced and in some cases dominated by the British, the UK also dominates in Boxing too. We dominate Hollywood movies and hit tv shows. Our musicians are amongst the most successful ever, Coldplay, Adele (biggest selling aritist of the century). There's tea, the keep calm and carry on fad that saw it plastered on mugs and tea towels the world over. No influence you say? Quite the contrary kid.
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@pvtmaguire959 Germany is not the largest, Britain still maintains it's status as one of the most powerful in europe only edged by France, Germany is not even in the top 6 they are behind Turkey. Ok maybe I wouldn't be tough as nails in their shoes but their leadership still definitely left a lot to be desired though, had Bill Slim been appointed the commander of Singapore he wouldn't have been so arrogant and stupid to underestimate the Japanese, when the British were under Slim they absolutely clobbered the Japanese, at the Battle of Kohima 1,500 British troops held off a force of 15,000 Japanese soldiers for 2 weeks. 55,000 Japanese soldiers were lost in the Burma campaign, once Slims' newly formed and better organised 21,000 troops fought back against the Japanese.
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@healer1000040 It's not as impressive when you consider these factors...the British had no air cover, no tanks, no experience in jungle training, also the Japanese didn't only have 10,000, they were 36,000, and most of the japanese were battle hardened troops and were well versed in jungle warfare.
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we sank the bismarck tirpitz and scharnhorst in the battle of the atlantic so what are you on about the Italian navy was also wiped out by the royal navy the japanese army lost 100000 men in their invasion of India during the battles of kohima and imphal montgomery never lost a single battle to rommel in the desert either the germans were defeated at alam el halfa and el alamein and also suffered the first defeat to british forces in operation crusader the british faced the largest concentration of german forces at normandy in the battle of caen the germans committed over nine panzer divisions to defend it and the british after a long bloody three months of fighting managed to take it back you definitely need to brush up on your history
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@radiozvrk6784 Apart from the railways, medicine, and hospitals we gave to you over there......
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@gwengwen2002 these soldiers cant be compared to the british soldiers that clung on for weeks outnumbered against 15000 japanese soldiers at kohima
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@BS-rm1hv Yeah right france? a military that has done nothing for the last 20 years, Britain has 17 years of combat experience from both iraq and afghanistan, Brexit means were gonna become a prosperous nation, even your EU leaders have admitted they are scared of the prospect of a competetive united kingdom ;)
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@BS-rm1hv oh right 16 british soldiers killed 3000 egyptians dead yeah what a great example mate lol
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"Simply put the japanese were unbeatable in 1939-1942 I refer you to the 1942 Battle of Milne bay, which demonstrated the japanese were beatable. With the right leadership and quality of troops, it could be done. Once the British trained their soldiers for jungle warfare in 1943 the Japanese began losing to them too. British forces inflicted on the Japanese one of it's greatest land defeats at Imphal with the loss of 60,000 troops.
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@mf606060 If its garbage then why did the Japanese army drive the British and Americans out of the Philippines and Burma in 1941?
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@hajim2k britain got revenge in the battle of kohima and imphal
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@MightyZocalo They defeated France and Spain and founded the largest empire in the world, they don't suck.
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@BS-rm1hv the secondary power that toppled Spain France AND Germany! hahahaha
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@BS-rm1hv Nope we could still kick your ass in this day and age
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@R "In general, the Brits can't fight." Hahahah well this contradicts your statement. German General Blumentritt, Chief of Staff was interviewed after the war by BH Liddell Harts in his book 'The German General's Talk', regards the different qualities of British and American troops at Normandy, he said : - "The Americans attacked with zest, and had a keen sense of mobile action, but when it came under heavy artillery fire they usually fell back - even after they had made a successful penetration. By contrast, once the British had got their teeth in, and had been in a position for twenty-four hours, it proved almost impossible to shift them. To counter-attack the British always cost us very heavy losses. I had many opportunities to observe this interesting difference in the autumn of 1944, when the right-half of my Corps faced the British, and the left-half the Americans". Whilst Erwin Rommel felt the New Zealanders, Australians, and certain British divisions (Guards Brigade / Commando Units / 7th Armoured Division) were the best troops in the North African arena (other than his own), German General, Siegfried Westphal, Chief of Staff to Rommel in North Africa, in his book, “The German Army in the West”(Cassel 1952) stated the following : - “The hardest, toughest in attack, and most persistent in defence were the British divisions, and of these the 7th Armoured Division was undoubtedly the best. These were the original Desert Rats. The uniformity of the British personnel was most striking. One saw not so much extraordinary audacity but the absence of failures. The 2nd New Zealand division was also outstanding in its fighting ability.” But yeah, the Brits "can"t fight" Shows how much you know....
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@R "They lost in Europe to the Germans, they lost in Asia to the Japanese." We spanked Rommel a third time in Normandy after beating him already without the americans at El Alamein twice. And utterly smashed the Japanese army in 1944 when they tried to invade India.
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Adrien Yb Is that why the Japanese were the ones who lost the Burma campaign? Yeah right........
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@gringologie9302 thats not strictly true what were the casualties at waterloo again 17000 british and only 7000 prussians who really did the bulk of the fighting oh yeah the british the prussians didnt do anything but turn up when the french was already on the verge of losing it was the british that repulsed napoleons old guard when they attacked wellingtons centre it was the british that held off repeated french assaults on the farm houses hougumont and la haye saint it was the british squares that annihilated neys cavalry it was the british cavalry that broke a french brigade and captured two french eagles britain practically won the peninsular war so that counts and i can justify this by pointing out the following japanese defeats kohima and imphal where the japanese lost over 80000 men against the british
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Excuses, the Japanese outnumbered the British defenders by 15,000 soldiers and still lost.
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@Maximus Yet who won the burma campaign? the british empire, losing the battle of atlantic? oh you mean like knocking out the bismarck? crete was a setback, as for north africa the first german retreat was conducted in operation crusader... what could the germans do? cross the english channel? they had no air and naval capacity to pull it off... Britain was in no position to lose the war.
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Leopold If the British had spitfires and hurricanes and cromwell tanks they could have.
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@R Not even close.
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@R Remind me who retreated at El Alamein and Caen after they were taken? The Germans.
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@R We didn't lose all of Asia, the Brits fell back to India where they made a stand and drove the Japanese back.
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@R You're talking nonsense kid. The British Empire stood alone for 20 months and after the disaster of Dunkirk, destroyed 30% of the fighting strength of the Luftwaffe, which was not fully rebuilt and entered the Soviet campaign greatly diminished. Engaged the Germans in Africa, Greece, and tied up 300,000 German troops in Norway for the duration and captured 250,000 in Tunisia. It was the largest surrender of German forces until 1944/45 including Stalingrad. destroyed the capital ship strength of the Kriegsmarine forcing them to rely on submarines, discovered the enigma codes that allowed the allies to decipher the German war plans, crushed 90% of the German armour in Normandy, which allowed the U.S to advance to cherbourg, in addition the fastest advance of any western army in Autumn/early 1945 was the 60 mile thrust by the British XXX Corps to the Rhine at Arnhem. Despite all the Hollywood movies that tried to portray the U.S as the country that did everything at Omaha beach etc it was Britain, Canada and the Commonwealth that did a lot of the leg work in the Western theatre and held them back for the first 3 years before America arrived.
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@sly fly Well most of the troops garrisoning it were poorly trained while the best British troops were freed up to fight in North Africa against Rommel's Afrika corps
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