Post times militaries thought they were being sneaky, but were in fact retarded. Caught flat, pants down, resulting in complete FUBAR. Bonus points if they built some huge expensive bullshit any moron should know won't work.RMS Carmenia V RMS Carmenia (wait a minute...) is my nomination.
>>62882086there's a certain 3 day special military operation that is going on 3 years now
RMS Carmania tho
>>62882096Yeah... but there is a LOT in history and we all know Ukraine Clown War.>>62882108Anon, this may shock you but I'm intoxicated.
The "Battle" of KaránsebesLate 18th century, Austria was at war with the Ottomans. Basically, a bunch of different portions of the Austrian army were split up. One portion had a party/got drunk, and another portion demanded that they share the schnapps. The drunk portion responded by fortifying their position around the barrels. Eventually, one of them fired a shot.Fighting broke out and someone yelled out "Turci! Turci! (Turks, Turks!) In the chaos, groups ran, and split up. The Austrian army was so diverse few of the soldiers could understand those of different units, due to language. The fighting grew worse, and it wasn't helped by Austrian officers, commanding "Halt! Halt!" which was mistaken, by many of the non-German speaking soldiers, to be ottoman soldiers yelling "Allah! Allah!"The cavalry ran through their own camp, and the soldiers their mistook it for ottoman cavalry. The entire camp awoke, thinking they were under attack and a battle had started. The whole army was shooting at itself, and retreated from an enemy that wasn't there. The Holy Roman Emperor was lightly wounded attempting to evacuate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clades_LollianaWikipedia glosses over the part where proper troop numbers were way too late. Suetonius does not. The troops were not there because a certain consul decided that relations with locals were unimportant and the budget he had to administrate with looked an awful lot like the level of salary he deserved as a new aristocrat.Guess what weapons he DID buy.Cavalry, for a densely forested area with major terrain challenges, and an enemy who fights like any other tribe. USING TERRAIN.
>>62882086Does that time that Mossad assassinated some dude in a hotel with like 12 people and it resulted in them having all their covers blown because they each were caught on video tape filing into his hotel room and out again?
>>62882086That one battle in de Bello Gallico where, at least according to Caesar, the entire reason why a beach landing/battle was lost was due to an aquilifer (literally "eagle bearer", a position that existed for religious purposes) jumped out of the boat prematurely and ran towards the enemy without any weaponry, knee deep in water with armor.
