doing report on D-Day...EDIT!

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
lethal, thanks for at least telling me what you did in a civil manner unlike the rest of the monkeys bashing me.


you just misunderstood what i was calling stupid...i didnt mean the men or what they did for us, but just simply the death. go read my edit in the first post and maybe my point will make more sense.

In future situations using "senseless" would be a better choice of words than "stupid." I know you were going for "senseless deaths" it just came out the wrong way.


Lethal

yeah, exactly what i meant, i just couldnt find the right words to say it

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
If you want to discuss stupid military plans WWI is full of them.

I think that's partly because the defence was superior to the offence back then. They had trenches, barbed wire and machine-guns. But for large part, the attacks were still infrantry-assaults over open terrain. The british were espesially bad. They still used the technique of marching side-by side towards the enemy, whereas the french used smaller teams running towards the enemy and taking cover. Only later when the tanks were introduced, did the offence catch up with the defence.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
If you want to discuss stupid military plans WWI is full of them.

I think that's partly because the defence was superior to the offence back then. They had trenches, barbed wire and machine-guns. But for large part, the attacks were still infrantry-assaults over open terrain. The british were espesially bad. They still used the technique of marching side-by side towards the enemy, whereas the french used smaller teams running towards the enemy and taking cover. Only later when the tanks were introduced, did the offence catch up with the defence.

yeah i read about some trench warfare today and i see now what you guys are talking about. it seems to be a more senseless approach than anything else ive read so far.

 

[So]

If you want to see how badly an amphibious invasion can go, look up the invasion of the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli some time.

One of the key improvements (not to say the only, not by a long shot) was the "Higgins Boat" (the boat whose front opens down to let the troops out on landing). Higgins boats are now part of our archetypal image of amphibious invasions, but in WWII they were an innovation. In previous wars, troops had to come ashore in wooden rowboats and hop over the side -- imagine how bloody any invasion of Europe might have been had we come in that way.

Edit: Btw, that was World War One.