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I didn't qualify as a YT historian for this because I was born in 1943, long after Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain covered the groundwork. I guess we had to wait for Ike so the Yanks could claim they won the war for us.

Probably, Westmoreland’s and the administration’s biggest error was underestimating the communist infiltration of all levels of the South Vietnamese government and the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare at the hamlet, village, and Province level. Also, the flow of arms from China and Russia, and the vast jungle environment made it a logistical nightmare for even the best of generals. It was a proxy war between the super powers. I was there from 1967-68 with the USMC.

I bet the german would have won Vietnam and Afghanistan

The policy objective of the Cotton-Oligarch Cartel of the Gulf and Atlantic Southern States that financed the Southern War was to maximize cotton exports in exchange for hard currency. That is all. Everything else is propaganda rationalization with wedge issues.

I thoroughly enjoy watching, listening to or reading everything to do with the Great War and the ONE THING which truly pisses me off is that every single person who speaks on or writes about the Great War seemingly purposefully neglects speaking or writing about US financial backing of the Entente as well as what became the naval blockade by England of Germany making it a militaristic and economic necessity for Germany to do many of the things which many people characterize as making them the bad guys in the war. It's pure bullshit

Too bad there was no Q & A afterwards. Besides being a demogogue, Hitler also made the mistake of surrounding himself with Diehard Nazis. Hitler proved to be an extreme risk taker who never seemed to have a fallback plan in case his initial plan failed. How could he have left over 3million german soldiers to try to survive in the Siberian winter without adequate clothing or provisions? The majority of the Nazi military ground forces were lost in that battle, and for no great strategic reason. The germans had destroyed an entire swath of the Russian country in their fight to take Moscow. There was no enemy behind them that would have stopped a controlled retreat to western Europe where theycould retreat and prepare to go back in the Spring to finish the job. Also, western Europe had been completely neutralized by the end of 1939. There was no risk of the English attacking Germany in the short term. England had been isolated and were on their own, and all of Churchill's pleading to Roosevelt had fallen on deaf ears since FDR was very reluctant 5o lose his voter base by commiting to another european war without being directly threatened Perhaps the bigger reason that Hitlerfailed was because he had been so successful early on in his march into the rest of Europe without facing any real military pushback that he undesetimated the remaining other countries and their militaries abilities to fight back effectively andr willingness to fight to the death ifnecessary. These remainibg countrieshad already observed Hitlers ruthlessness and deceipt - just by signing a peade accord with Chamberlain, and a pact with Stalin, both of which he quickly disgarded. Anotyer note: I watched the film Anthropoid last week, and the depiction of the german soldiers in this film as simply dumb thugs who wereconstantly having commands yelled at them, and ran blindly and obediently forward without question, is such a typical false stereotype as well. Besidesbeing well trained and well equiped, a big advantage tbe germans had was their ruthlessness towards the enemy. Having to worry about takibg prisoners, or what to do with civiluans seemed like a non important issue. Just kill them. So why go to such trouble to collect and house millions of jews , gays and commun8sts whe they could simply have been executed on the spot? There was too much contradiction in Hitler's decision on how to fight, where to fight, and who to fight. Once the enemy was given time to mobilize, it became more difficult for Hitler to finish off another coubtry in just a few days or weeks, unlesshe committed all of his forces to finish the job. Instead Hitler could not organize his forces efficiently- by 1941 he was already on to the next battle somewhere else without finishing the obes hehad started. There bever seemed to be a long term plan, just a long term ideology for the 3 reich to last a thousand years, but no road map to get there.

Westmoreland, the Herr General, who obfuscated and covered up the My Lai massacre, served the United States military industrial complex and his masters in the CIA. All whilst promoting the B.S. Communist threat domino lie.

What strategy? Attack a country three times your size with double your population. That's a bad strategic move.

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

LOL Empire's failing. Now what?

This guy standing in front of a red flag with a white circularish thing in the middle.....

So we means you're a traitor. Get lost.

Curious use of the word Anglo-Saxon to describe the Germans and British. At the time they would have erroneously said the British were Germanisch or Germanic - this would have been a good description of the language, rather than the people.

I was referring to the " Lincoln genocide" remark. Otherwise, this presentation was superb!

How can a blithering fool utter such bilge?

USA doing the same now letting China to do what it want and fighting with Muslims weak without weapons from 1990 until now. They need to follow the strategic goal not ideologic party goal wake up USA ...

No need for any lecture. Never march on Moscow is the reason. Napoleon, H1tler, and now Joe Biden.

COMPLETE & TOTAL 🐴💩!!! Germany was still 5 years from being READY, but there was a problem with the 'agressive' Polish who were playing their puppet part for Britain, France, and the U.S.. Btw, the same people who made sure you were coerced in 2021, they also taught you history. 😳 🇺🇸

I am not an expert, but a 2 front war campaign is never ideal. The German army was not equipped for winter war in the vast Russian territory was another factor. Then last but not least declaring war on the United States of America was his biggest mistake.

I listened to this at fast speed and it was still slow

camera man you suck, I need to see the Map not the bald heads I have gone to church with for over 50 years

This is pure gold!

Our Germans are better than their Germans is a line from All the Right Stuff, too.

Interesting take on the ideological view of war: the best generals (for the dictator) are the ones barely capable but completely loyal. Meritorious guys can coup the nation, men who lose can be shot for failure. Thus the SS can be set up to rival the Wehrmacht, and the Luftwaffe Hermann Goring division and the Fallschirmjaeger divisions could be rivals of both. Increasing internal tension, they simultaneously increased loyalty/dependency to the central leader. Kinda what's happening in Ukraine and the private military companies/national militias. Lots of parallels between Putin and Hitler.

Just a little info on Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, the speaker: "Journalist Johann Hari has stated that Roberts' writings defended acts such as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Second Boer War concentration camps for Afrikaners during the Second Boer War, and mass internment in Northern Ireland (Operation Demetrius). Hari also wrote that Roberts made a speech at the expatriate South African Springbok Club, which flies the apartheid-era flag of South Africa and calls for "the re-establishment of civilised [i.e. white] rule throughout the African continent". Roberts claims that he did not realise the Springbok Club was racist when he took on the speaking engagement, despite the apartheid era flag, and the fact that the event was a commemoration of the 36th anniversary of UDI."

Thank you Mr. Knott, this is as complete and understandable an explanation of the whole of this battle that is not covered in any literature or media sources I have seen. I am more informed about this topic than before.

If I were to take a test, in principle, I could answer the questions strategically - either by answering questions in a certain order or in a certain way. But I would not be "at war" with the test. Sun Tzu says "supreme excellence" not "supreme excellence at warfare." Therefore, it's a composition fallacy to assume that because either non-violent winning or strategy are at play that what is at play is warfare. Further, to attribute violence to the whole of the civil right movement because of the violence of a minority of a minority when many were engaging non-violently is a cherry-picking fallacy.

At the University of South Carolina, if you spoke ill of General Westmoreland, the campus ROTC units would target you with muggings if they caught you alone. The Campus Police allowed the ROTC thugs a free hand acting as a rear guard for the ROTC punks. Lindsey Graham was born of this racist ROTC culture, a tin soldier weakling of so little honor.

What that means is that every Confederate is a Racist

The first part on stratigy was well done. The JBS part not so much. Seem you were pushing a class in personal relations to your advantage.

Kissinger, LBJ and Cronkite lost the War in Vietnam.

"It made no sense" Its almsot like, it didnt happen.

lie lie & lie again

This is the level of western centric, russia phobic bullshit that these muppets Teach & Believe. So Russians are demonstrating right now the real history of ww2, and incompetence and literal infantility of western militaries. Which were obvious to anyone looking out of the window of western media into reality. The Taliban ran you all out of afghanistan, for fuck sake. And you still recycle the same bullshit, but it doesn't work anymore.

I disagree with his statement in the very beginning that the Germans “COULD HAVE” won the war. They never had the GDP that their enemies had. It wasn’t impossible, but near to impossible.

So what happened to the wagon train and the pack mules?

If Hitler would had put the German interests above the party ideological and corrupted view, he never had invaded Poland and triggered the war

You can see him sweating bullets towards the end there, making sure he gets all the details right when talking about the Jewish plight and applauding a form of their own racial supremacy when talking about all the Nobel prizes they won. A bit ironic, isn’t it? The notion that Hitler and the Third Reich lost the war purely because of ideology is absurd, especially when you could easily make the inverse argument about the Soviets winning the war precisely because they were extremely ideological. After all, Stalin’s infamous purges and human sacrifices were made under the guise of furthering the Bolshevik cause and getting rid of the reactionary, anti-revolutionary elements. The Americans were equally as ideological insofar as they were guided by protecting monopolist, big capital above all else. A number of hugely important details were left out in favor of presenting a fantastical and idealistic version of events here. The bombing of Dresden and murder of hundred of thousands of German women and children come to mind. Also the fact that Germany and her leadership had attempted countless times to settle for diplomacy with regard to the Western powers. These nations later neglected agreements and all teamed up to defeat the powerhouse that Germany had become all on its own. If anything, this was a testament to the strength that sheer ideology had afforded the Third Reich. At the end of the day, I believe this historian’s ultimate claim is misleading. After all, we are all guided by ideology to an extent. In his case, the gentleman is guided by a certain “anti-Nazi” ideology.

German navy was going to sink British ships no matter what - why did Hitler declare war on America? One leading theory is that he wanted to whow fascist unity with Japan and trigger a Manchuria offensive to strain Russia on a two front war - the war state between Germany/America was of no matter for that conversation due to logistical realties and they knew that (it was a goal to spur that attack forever). An interesting part is it ensured America would have an army on the continent as a contingency for a communist counter push, which was a very real prophecy at this point as Moscow was not taken (even rhe most enthusiastic OHK generals felt that was the one and only chance for victory and if they failed, a years long meat grinder like ww1 would emerge, which is what happened). Food for thought.

Holocaust in Gaza is the truth right now

This clip more than 10 years old. By now we know through reports from the Barbarossa campaign, that Halder and other generals put way too much blame on Hitler and too much praise on themselves. Especially Halder is considered by now an uninspiring and uncreative chief of Staff, while Hitler always had open ears for creative ideas like the Ardennes attack suggested by Manstein and initially rejected by Halder. Hitler was an aggressive against the odds risk taker and that led to the initial surprise success combined with the new Blitzkrieg tactics. Especially the plan to send the main German forces towards Moscow is heavily criticized by now, a plan that Halder insisted on, dismissing all other more creative ideas presented to him by his subordinates (like going more the resources in the south).

Germany could have easily kept territory that it annexed prior to its attack on Poland. It's also plausible that it could have kept its part of Poland too, since the USSR also took part in that invasion. Had Hitler just stopped short of invading France, and left Britain alone, the Reich likely would have survived. Pearl Harbor pulled the U.S. into the war, but there was a strong feeling in the U.S. up to that point of avoiding any involvement in another European war. It's conceivable that the U.S. would have waged war against Japan without any significant involvement in the European theater of operations, especially if Hitler had restrained himself. It's unlikely that France and England, and especially the USA, would have waged war on Germany just to reverse those annexed countries and Poland. Making all the difference: Pearl Harbor was well after Hitler conquered France and Germany was attacking both Britain and Russia. Although it was not yet public knowledge, it was also known by this time what the Nazis were doing in their carrying out of the Holocaust, so there again was an imperative that Hitler must be stopped. So it was easy for FDR and Churchill to arrive at the priority of defeating Germany first, and then Japan. From a military perspective, Hitler sealed the fate of Germany when he invaded the USSR. That essentially consumed the greatest and most powerful elements of the Wehrmacht. An interesting 'what if' is how the war would have played out if Hitler had NOT invaded the USSR and had all those forces available to counter the Normandy invasion.

this is not about the holocaust WTF Wikipedia ?

Clever propaganda

So the expert tells a group of military men not to worry it was all the politicians fault?

With the foresight of genius, Putin understands the Grand Design. 1) Lebensraum and race --NATO becomes Barbarossa: Northen and Central Army Groups head towards Leningrad and Moscow, Southern Army Group towards Ukraine, the Don basin, the Crimea, and the Caucasus 2) The Grossraum becomes the EU: Greater Germanic Estate embrace Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.

I assumed that Hitler was talking about temperatures in Celsius units. It sucks that when a European speaks in the US, this confusion arises. We Americans need to use the units that the others use.

This is pure MSM fakery. Here is the speaker's adult bio from Wikipedia: Roberts is divorced from his first wife, Camilla Henderson, with whom he had two children.[3][50] Roberts is married to businesswoman Susan Gilchrist,[51] CEO of the corporate communications firm Brunswick Group LLP and chairman of the South Bank Centre. Lord and Lady Roberts live in London.[14] Roberts has worked with think tank organisations such as the Centre for Policy Studies and the Centre for Social Cohesion. He has additionally maintained personal friendships with several British political and social figures such as David Cameron, Michael Gove, and Oliver Letwin.[3] In February 2016, he was appointed President of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.[14] It was announced on 14 October 2022 in Boris Johnson's 2022 Political Honours that Roberts would be raised to the peerage as a life baron.[52] On 1 November 2022, he was created Baron Roberts of Belgravia, of Belgravia in the City of Westminster.[53]

When you base everything on ethnicity and race you get things called “Jewish Science”.

American capitalism defeated fascism in Europe.