Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

  1. Would you rather fight a duck the size of a T-55 or 100 duck-sized T-55s?
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  2. It’s gamer spec fetishism. Gamers fixate on weapons and the specs of those weapons, which is never the full story. The stereotypical example is the comparison of tigers to shermans. It’s meaningless to discuss tank specs without considering the multi-level multi-system contexts, from the operating level to doctrine to logistics to manufacturing. One of the reasons I enjoy Bernard’s presentations is that he understands this fundamentally and is always reminding us of the bigger picture and role that equipment plays within that bigger picture.
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  3. Terrific interview. The Grugq is a great resource—I recommend checking out his Medium essays/slideshows. He has the expertise to get into gritty details, but more importantly, he has the wisdom to approach cybersecurity as security (that is, in the broader context of security). He’s really good at explaining the bigger picture to lay persons.
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  4. It’s for passing other tanks on the tankbahn.
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  5. Pretty much, right? The 101st considered them serious foes. Just the fact that they were (and considered themselves) elite soldiers confers an advantage in morale, and troops with high morale operate at a more effective level. What I am curious about is what the paratroopers thought about never again performing airborne operations after Crete.
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  6. True, but was holding territory a viable option? The Green Berets had an interesting strategy with the Montagnards, creating village based defensive forces, but it wasn’t scalable—MACV tried and failed with the model hamlet program. The underlying problem for counter-insurgency operations is political, the relationship between the government and the people. The insurgency had popular support for the most part (and would ruthlessly eliminate those who didn’t support them). The SVG lacked this support mostly because it’s leadership was so corrupt, going back to Diem.
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  7. It was the Last Tiger because it spent most of the war in the maintenance shed.
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  8. The Greatest Generation fought World War II to end hyperbole FOREVER.
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  9. Sometimes I type so fast I have to change out the space bar.
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  10. Some people grow on you, but other people grow more grating. I initially liked his energy, but he never changes gears.
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  11. Enemy tanks hate this one hack!
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  12. Well, Wehrmacht soldiers had to swear a loyalty oath to Hitler . . . Not to the country and certainly not to a constitution. That says a lot right there. And there are those in the U.S. that would put loyalty to a political leader over loyalty to the country.
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  13. Is your wargame an example of an intelligence misstep? Were they trying to determine Japanese naval capabilities in the exercise or was it serving a different purpose? Planners are the ones who analyze the “what if” questions. Intelligence analysts try to answer the “what is” questions.
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  14.  @orlock20  Yes. And the corruption of the military was a natural and inevitable outgrowth of the massive corruption permeating the Russian state and society. Which raises the question, if the society was not corrupt and therefore the military was not corrupt (and presumably strong), would the invasion of Ukraine have even been implemented? I’m suggesting that if Russian society, state, and military were healthy, and the military was capable of winning a war in Ukraine, they would not have invaded in the first place.
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  15. Underrated
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  16.  @ycplum7062  That’s the upshot. Unionized workers with an agreement with an employer to rehire based on seniority has nothing to do with what Russia is up to, trying to conceal its level of unemployment. It’s a false equivalence and/or downright ignorance about what the word “count” means.
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  17. Yeah, you’d need to change upholster to tailor in the translation. This is the challenge of jokes based on word play.
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  18. How is their strategic position excellent? They haven’t made significant gains since the first week of March—unless you want to count taking out the steel plant at Mariupol a significant gain. What do you mean that their approach to war is “very specific”? That seems like a meaningless phrase. Do you mean the Russian military doctrine of envelopment? When are we going to start seeing it? Much like the Nazis at Kursk, the Russians have allowed their adversaries plenty of time to prepare defenses in depth. And like the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians have used that time to build the defenses. Neither the Russians nor the Nazis managed to break through. Look up Operation Citadel.
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  19. I don’t think his employer will allow that.
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  20.  @numberboxgamer  it’s a wartime practice for the most part. Also, the military’s standards have been quite variable over time.
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  21. It was in the video. Leaders quickly migrated to new comms channels/platforms.
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  22. WielkaKasza the term is “Tankie” for people who defend Stalin until their dying breath. If there was justice in the world, that last breath would come in G.U.L.A.G.
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  23. History Gaming Verified Its a Nazi apologist, I imagine, hoping to unify white people against the non-white hordes. The lie these white supremacists want to perpetuate is that Hitler was forced to fight Britain and France against his will, when he really wanted to unite with them to fight the Slavs and the Asians. If the British were really “war mongering”, i.e., had Churchill been PM during the stages leading up to the invasion of Poland, I doubt Hitler would have had the ball (singular) to enter the Sudetenland.
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  24. Riceball01 The push into France was ongoing, but the full operation hadn’t started yet. Germany had a foothold in France, having flanked the Maginot line, but hadn’t penetrated deeply. Case Red wasn’t initiated until early June. The Dunkirk evacuations happened in late May. France did not surrender until 22 June, a little more than two weeks after Case Red kicked off.
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  25. There’s a Vietnam era sick joke about how the war could have been ended. 1) Put all the friendlies (non-communists) on boats and ships in the South China Sea 2) Bomb the country until all the communists are dead and not a tree is left standing 3) Sink all the boats and ships
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  26. Phil They were tough horses, but still delicious if properly marinated.
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  27. It’s a tracked vehicle. There are no tires to be filled with air under pressure, so no air pressure to measure. 😜 Oooooh, did you mean atmospheric pressure? That was covered.
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  28. This leads me to the question, “Why are there no cattle herding video games?”.
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  29. MattCellaneous Part of the perception problem is the History Channel and other low quality sources consider tanks outside of their contexts—tanks hardly ever operated alone, but were a part of a platoon of tanks and operated in a combined arms tactical environment. Another dimension they don’t focus on much is the supply chain and logistics. Five or ten reasonably armored and gunned tanks that are also mechanically reliable and easy to maintain (including parts availability) are better than one tank with excellent armor and the best gun that spends 33% or more of its time in the maintenance shed waiting for parts.
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  30.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  Benny Hill relied on visual and physical comedy, which “translates” much more easily. I’m not aware of any French comedy beyond Jacque Tati/Monsieur Hurlot, which is also physical and visual. Mr. Bean is visual comedy. Buster Keaton, visual. Monty Python has been translated internationally, but not all of their material works in other languages. Again, the visual and physical humor is what works best. Edit: I realize now that you were just setting up your joke about Rammstein.
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  31. And I have to wonder how much his negligence in French Indochina exacerbated the French-Vietnamese conflict . . . which eventually leads us to the worst post-WWII U.S. general, Westmoreland.
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  32. Ma Cro There were two likely causes for the ridiculous quality control. 1. The soviet purge of engineers in the 1930s (many were shot and many more sent to perish in Siberian slave labor camps). 2. Corruption, where high ranking party members skimmed materials (to be sold on the black market) and substituted inferior materials or fake materials. Is it safe to speculate that the state organs got more serious about the corruption sometime in 1942? I don’t want to guess, but I bet one could learn a lot by examining Minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Beria’s lists.
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  33. Interesting. I suppose you could then collect unemployment until you found work as a general in another army.
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  34. Heck, even rat hunting videos.
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  35. We are all hungry for the facts, but some of you are starving to death.
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  36. SmithN' Wesson Maybe watch the video, which contradicts your unsupported statement.
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  37.  @tomitiustritus6672  I think you are correct. Even if the threat from Belarusian forces is low (Belarus military seems disinclined to join Putin’s adventure and has made that very clear to Belarusian leadership), the flanks must still be protected. Furthermore, UKR could use these to equip Quick Reaction Forces in strategically important rear areas in case Russia wants to throw away more air assault and Spesnaz forces.
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  38.  @darkiee69  It’s not an APC, it’s an IFV. IFV doctrine is different from that used for APCs. In essence, an Infantry Fighting Vehicle is used like a light tank to support the infantry it carries. In some ways it is like an APC, in other ways it’s like a tank (albeit a very light one). APC doctrine is to safely move soldiers to wherever they’re needed. IFV doctrine is to move them there and help them fight.
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  39. If the Army had developed a heavy tank and named it the Yamato, it would have gotten built. 😄 But seriously, the decision to attack the U.S. came quite late. The Japanese might have felt that war was inevitable, but it was far off in the future until the oil embargo and shipping embargo undermined the war in China. The infrastructure to manufacture and supply medium and heavy tanks wasn’t developed because up until the attack on Pearl Harbor, it wasn’t necessary.
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  40. That needs explanation for those of us that don’t understand the cultural differences.
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  41. Did you say crowdfunding or krautfunding?
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  42. What was better? For what? For fun transportation, I prefer a motorcycle. For evading snooping code breakers, also a motorcycle.
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  43. Kay Sawn
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  44. Edax Have you seen Kelly’s Heroes? The Shermans are so weak they shoot paint rounds rather than AP.
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  45. Alexander Seven The agreement was that Poland would have democratic elections after the war, and thus reconstitute its government. The Soviets then fixed the elections. Churchill was up in arms about this (iirc, was already out of power), but Truman let it pass.
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  46. There are rational reasons beyond branch rivalries why a navy would want their own specific tank design for amphibious assault. I’m not sure of what justifications the Japanese Army had for building their own aircraft carrier.
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  47. Oh, look, Tailgunner Joe’s ghost.
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  48. DBallz11d lol, as if it never occurred to anyone before to cross breed horses and burros after millennia of domestication of both animals.
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  49. Operation Rings around Uranus. Not my anus.
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  50.  @looinrims  In 1941 Russian industrial capacity was moving at a fast pace—loaded into trains moving east.
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