31 of the Most Wildly Disastrous Mistakes Militaries Have Made
‘Saddam thinking the USA was bluffing about invading a second time’
Miscalculations and mistakes in war have grave consequences. Well, for the poor saps who end up fighting in them, at least. For the commander who blew it, the worst thing they’ll do is probably take one of his medals away. At least history will forever be unkind to them, not that it’ll bring back the lives lost thanks to their blunder.
Some mistakes, though, are so stupid as to be indefensible. Even just in theory, they’re highly inadvisable. To make it off the map table and onto the actual battlefield is pretty much indefensible, then and any time in the future.
Below, historians on Reddit share the most disastrous military mistakes they can think of.