Comments on: Top 10 Worst Military Decisions In History

By: Bhbar

Bhbar — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:56:09 +0000

A so so list. Too many errors and mistakes for my taste.

Sorry.

10- Napoleon did not invade Russia for excitement. He did it to enforce the Continental System-look it up.

7-Losing a copy of your battle plan is not a decision one deliberately make. Yes it is a screw up but not a deliberate choice.

6-Meade did not follow up Lee immediately because his army was in bad shape even though he won. Units were disorganized, missing men, short of officers due to the fighting, and the supplies were in a mess. Some Union men had been fighting for all three days and had never been fed. If you’re going to pursue, you have to have an army that could fight and the Northerners were in bad shape for that. Lee in fact wanted Meade to pursue so he could ambush him( Meade).

5- Custer made many mistakes but leaving behind the machine guns was not really one of them. His original mission was to find the Indians and pursue them as they tended to scatter. With the information that he had at the time, he believed he needed mobility, not more firepower. The gatlings would have slowed his men down a lot.

4-Churchill made the decision to invade the Dardanelles. He did not plan
how to do it, and the actual invasion was done poorly. This is the fault of the
Admirals and Generals who carried it out. The actual decision was sound, but the execution was poor.

By: Christopher Saunders

Christopher Saunders — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:21 +0000

I’d say there’s a distinction between Napoleon and Hitler re: invading Russia, inasmuch as that was part of Hitler’s plan all along. Ill-advised sure, but in keeping with his overall worldview. Napoleon had no good strategic or political reason for it, least of all when he had a large Anglo-Spanish army to his west.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:15:16 +0000

Do people not realize that there were huge battles fought between Napoleon and the Russians? The battle of Smolensk was massive, and the battle of Borodino was the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars up until that point, and would only be surpassed by the battle of Leipzig.

By: Gogo

Gogo — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:15:40 +0000

Alexander didn’t invade India. He defeated the Indian king Porus, but retreated when the Nanda Empire and the Gangaridai kings formed an alliance against him.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:09:18 +0000

#10 Invading Russia – “So Napoleon looks west, to Mother Russia” should be “looks east”

By: Jhod

Jhod — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:26:27 +0000

i agree with the Soviet Union Invasion, i think that was the dumbest idea to attack in the MIDDLE of the war when they still were fighting the west, not to mention that Germany and Russia were allies, before the invasion.
Fighting West front and the East was totally catastrophic for Germany, which resulted of losing the war.But then again, if they didnt made that stupid decision, maybe we would not be here

By: Bill Meadows

Bill Meadows — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:50:22 +0000

My List
1.Napoleon invading Russia
2.Hitler Invading Russia
3.The Roman campaign in the teutoburg forrest
4.Mccellan not attacking the confederates at Richmond
5.President Johnson’s mircomanging vietnam
6.Burnside’s charge at fredsricksburg
7.Russia invading Afghanistan
8.The Nazis Bombing London
9.The British at Battle of the somme
10.The Germans Battle of the marne

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By: Magnolia Furia

Magnolia Furia — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:13:35 +0000

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By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:57:35 +0000

In item 10, you say that Napoleon has not known nothing than victory. But this is not quite true. Although not participating directly in the battles, the Napoleon army had been defeated in Spain in several battles during 1808 and later. For example, El Bruc, Bailen, Saragossa’s siege, Gerona’s siege, etc, etc.

I think Napoleon’s mistake was more the opening of two fronts, what makes the situation more ressembling to that of Hitler.