Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

The early days of the invasion were like the Schlieffen Plan going off the rails in August 1914. Both the Russians and Germans split their power between too many smaller invading arms.
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It's interesting to have watched history repeat itself in Ukraine last year. The Russian army took their 150,000 "Professionals" and split them up into five or so smaller, weaker arms meant to encircle, Those arms were stopped in the North, the arms sent to encircle Kviv failed to achieve their objectives and in the ensuing months, a static line formed in the Southeast where the Russians dug into trench systems, like its 1915 again.
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... but unable to deliver the goods. The brochure on the Russian airforce is better than the actual product.
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@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 I live in Canada. I'm 67 years old and I have known many ... I mean a lot of Ukrainian Canadians over my life. Ukrainians have a big diaspora here that has accumulated since the 19th century (They were even interred by the Canadians in 1914 because Ukraine was Austro-Hungarian at the time.) I can tell you for sure that they ALL had a passionate sense of being Ukrainian, a deep dislike of Russia and that clearly stretched back for generations. It is a strong culture that I have seen expressed here throughout my life. This propagandist idea that Ukrainian identity suddenly emerged in 2014 is Russian justification to themselves for yet one more genocidal invasion of a neighbour. They've done it so many times before to so many nations around them that there is a lineup of their victims wanting to join NATO for protection from them as soon as possible.
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A) Never expect your adversary to follow your carefully crafted plan. [see: "Special Military Operation"] B) NEVER underestimate your adversary. They are not idiots despite what your propaganda is saying.
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That was merely a Pfalz flag operation.
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@AREMUP Partly
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@SeveredLegs Syria It'll be interesting to see F-35s flying over them. They likely already are with the Israeli air force.
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Schlieffen warned about the right hook. Hubris unwound his plan.
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@Gorboduc He sacked Moltke for being right. I kind of reminds you of the revolving door of leaders of the Russian army right now.
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@SeveredLegs The Americans have engaged Wagner there from time-to-time. Anyway, the whole complexion of air defence is rapidly changing now with new weapons using stealth and drone swarms designed to saturate radar computers with targets. I'm sure that the earlier Soviet systems were pretty good as NATO doctrine has taking out all the air defenses and controlling airspace as Task#1.
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@MmmGallicus That happened over and over during the Great War. The Somme would have been an instant success with use of tactical nuclear weapons, but ... Beware of Hubris.
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@lifeunderthestarstv It's exactly what happened, haha.
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It was the Canadians under Currie and the Anzacs under Monash that made the transformation.
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@piotrd.4850 They grossly underestimated their adversary, as well.
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@lehtokurppa7824 The Brits had little to contribute in 1914 except for a powerful navy. While millions were being mobilized in Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia each, the UK had 100,000 troops to field with their light artillery. They were pros who fought above their weight but in 1914, Britain was a negligible land power. It didn't stay that way, though.
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@colonelturmeric558 It's a theatre killing thousands a week. Did you see that 150,000 man army that crossed the Ukrainian border in February 2022 with tanks and vehicles? Great theatre, that! Sure has the rest of us fooled.
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@lordhighexecutioner Well, that'll make it lot easier for the vicious Russian monsters to kill them all, won't it?
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You didn't mention the Battle Cruisers. I guess that they are best forgotten given how vulnerable they turned out to be in both wars.
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You missed an important part of the naval operation (just) prior to D-Day. Minesweeper flotillas swept right up to the beaches all alone, without support trying not to give the game away to the German shore batteries. Itwas very dangerous for them and a critical part of the success of the landings
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... together with Arthur Currie and the Canadian Corps who fought alongside the Australians during the "Last Hundred Days".
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@davesherry5384 They may or may not have seen themselves as "British". The First Canadian Division of the Second Battle of Ypres were almost all ex-pat Brits but by the time of Vimy, they were mostly gone and the Canadian Corps was composed of Canadian farm boys and not all of them were of British stock.
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Years of corruption damaging their air force ... you have to wonder what sort of shape their vaunted and feared nuclear forces are in. They are extremely expensive to maintain and one can easily see the funds allocated to do so being "redirected" into other pockets because ... hey ... "Who's going to need those nuclear weapons, anyway?"
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The phrase "lions led by donkeys" was said to have been coined by the German military strategist General Erich Ludendorff, who served as the Chief of Staff of the German Army during the latter stages of World War I.
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@54000biker WWI ended military leadership by the Aristocracy. That was originally what the Aristocracy was there for: to provide military leadership in times of war. In WWI it suddenly became crucial that the military leadership be educated and the Aristocracy didn't much bother with schooling so they fell very short and were mostly removed from the battlefield quickly at the beginning never to return in numbers.
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