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Examples of successful generals getting promoted with little to no experience
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frogsofwar
frogsofwar
Futurist
Did the Anglo-Americans ever consider sending a lot of their own troops to the USSR to help the Soviets fight the Nazis in WWII?
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frogsofwar
frogsofwar
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Patton’s generalship?
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sparky
sparky
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How did Steppe Armies take cities and fight in difficult terrain?
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wigglywaffles
trebuchets vs walls
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Willempie
Willempie
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The Small Navies Thread - Historical and Current
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pikeshot1600
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Thegn Ansgar
MEDIEVAL MYTH BUSTING - Arrows vs Armour
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Picard
Picard
Millennium 7
The Bullet Nobody Wanted to Fire
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Millennium 7
Millennium 7
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440th Engineer Depot Company - Where did they land during the D-day invasion
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MG1962a
MG1962a
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periods of piece in human civilizations spanning from the neolithic era up to present day civilizations?
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MAGolding
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Mastersonmcvoidson
Napoleon As a Military Commander
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PrinceofOrange
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Picard
Artillery of Roman Legion
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DiocletianIsBetterThanYou
DiocletianIsBetterThanYou
Incendio
Kings and Generals youtube channel
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Condottiero
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British Auxiliary Legion in Spain (1835-1837)
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SJP
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How would you rate Zhukov?
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Lee-Sensei
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pinguin
The best dressed soldiers in history?
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martin76
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Best Seaplanes/Flying Boats of WW2
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MG1962a
MG1962a
Picard
Armour evolution - plate vs lamellar
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Dan Howard
Dan Howard
Mastersonmcvoidson
Karl Mack: The Worst General of the Napoleonic Wars?
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pugsville
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U S Grant
So a what if thread: What if the Allies had not attacked Sicily and instead maintained their forces for Normandy
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sparky
sparky
U S Grant
Best Fighter Aircraft of WW2
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etmore
etmore
Zip
Best American Army Commander WWII?
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sparky
sparky
Picard
Raids in medieval warfare
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johnincornwall
johnincornwall
frogsofwar
Best Japanese Officer of WWII?
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starman
starman
Lord Oda Nobunaga
My List of the Greatest Commanders in History
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Lord Oda Nobunaga
Lord Oda Nobunaga
etmore
How would you rate the following Theater commanders during WWII?
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redcoat
redcoat
FailWhale
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Archduke Charles vs Pompey the Great vs Robert E Lee
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Troy wienerdog
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Did the Roman Principate during the 2nd century field the best army in the world?
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benzev
benzev
Picard
Best Allied World War II general?
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Emperor Vespasian
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Brisieis
Best Armour in Historical Warfare?
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hyuzu
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Incendio
Frontal assaults in modern warfare (1870-1920 aprox.)
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sparky
sparky
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French military mission to Poland?
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dupuydumazeldan
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Hanslune
Question on the French intervention in Mexico
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Barros Serrano
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Marshall Ney
Question about gilded edges of armour plates from early modern period (e.g. English Civil War)
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Marshall Ney
Marshall Ney
frogsofwar
How Ideologically Serious Were German officers? And Galland's "First and the Last"
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baba yagas hut
baba yagas hut
FailWhale
Thirty Years' War and Qing Conquest of China
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MJuingong
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Picard
Oceanic galleys
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martin76
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How practical were the Luftwaffe's jet warplanes?
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sparky
sparky
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Revised view of German military strength and strategies
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Frog33inUK
Frog33inUK
VHS
The whole history of firearms
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sparky
sparky
U S Grant
How important was U. S. Grant in developing tactics of modern warfare?
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Gvelion
Gvelion
Dentatus
Leyte Gulf
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U S Grant
U S Grant
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how Much did the strategic bombing campaign help the Allies in WW2?
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frogsofwar
Myths about Churchill: Your Thoughts?
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Tercios Espanoles
Tercios Espanoles
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British (or other) Army Officers with marks on their record
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Lord Fairfax
Lord Fairfax
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Oldest commander to win a battle
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Bart9349
Bart9349
Picard
Different armour evolution pathways
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Picard
Picard
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Invisible cloak that makes tanks, airplanes, ships, soldiers disappear into stealth mode
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sculptingman
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No Bias FTW
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Which military weapons were ever INTENTIONALLY designed to MAINLY represent a male sex organ?
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Naomasa298
Naomasa298
Escritor
Are there actual examples of armies with iron weaponry overwhelming armies with bronze weaponry in the second and first millenniums BCE?
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wigglywaffles
wigglywaffles
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