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Who's Sorry Now? (Great Military Blunders Documentary) I'm not the greatest fan of the HistChan but this documentry is very good, it shows how arogance, lack of planning, poor stratergy and tactics, etc produce blunderous defeats. It underlines the need to learn from history and never assume that firepower alone can win battles. You can have the most expensive military in the world and still loose wars to numberically much smaller and lesser armed opponents. | British & Commonwealth Forces

Charge of the Light Brigade 1854 | History’s Most Famous Military Blunder On October 25, 1854, during the Crimean War, the Charge of the Light Brigade became one of history’s most infamous blunders. A miscommunication sent 600 British cavalry charging headlong into Russian artillery at Balaclava. Cannons tore them apart, and half the brigade never returned. Their doomed bravery lived on in poetry—but the “noble charge” was a disaster written in blood and smoke. Charge of the Light Brigade 1854,