Worst military mistakes.

**Che Roriniho** · 08-18-2008, 12:55

Originally Posted by AntiTank

There was no battle of the Marne, it was actually five separate battles fought simultaneously nowhere near the Marne River.

The ffirst one, with the French and the taxis.

**AntiTank** · 08-18-2008, 22:00

Originally Posted by Che Roriniho

The ffirst one, with the French and the taxis.

Axis Alliance did not exist in 1914. Also First Marne again was five separate battles well past the Marne River.

**Hooahguy** · 08-29-2008, 01:32

sorry for necroposting-
i have another military mistake:
the atlantic wall

**teh1337tim** · 08-29-2008, 03:34

ahahh true
encomposed of badly mauled units from eastern front sprinkled with a few vets here and there and plenty of ost battalions (POWs who aggreed to fight for hitler against stalin)but were first to run
+ the hitler youth who were fanatic but just cant aim or do anything tactical

+ what added to there disastrous start was hitler insisting nobody wake him up during the night of DDay and reports of a 5000+ allied fleet and the splitting of the panzer SS corps
with 3 crack divisions deployed around calais with no order to move to normandy and rommels panzers all under attack from aircraft during the day

i wonder what would happen if as many soldiers lost in the beach landings were to happen in 1 battle today? i wonder what would civilians be like? :P

**Sarcasm** · 08-29-2008, 04:22

Ok, so put yourself in the German High Command's shoes. How would you handle a war that could not be won at this point? You'd probably follow von Rundstedt advice.

**Hooahguy** · 08-29-2008, 21:11

nah. the big mistake was only having thier main defenses at the beaches....

**Fiddler** · 08-30-2008, 13:11

Originally Posted by hooahguy

nah. the big mistake was only having thier main defenses at the beaches....

A defense in depth is not practical when
A) you lack the ressources to build a defense in depth
B) your reserves intended to wipe out the enemy who has broken into the defense can't move in the day.

Sorry, but the building of the wall was the result of a sound military analysis, not a "mistake".
I have trouble calling something a mistake when there is no other alternative.

**Bovarius** · 08-29-2008, 21:19

Originally Posted by AntiTank

Axis Alliance did not exist in 1914. Also First Marne again was five separate battles well past the Marne River.

I think he really meant taxi's and not the Axis. During the battles of the Marne the French, in a wave of patriotism, used all cars in Paris to move the soldiers to the front.