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All Luck - No Skill? - German Army in WW2? (Patreon)

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Was the German Army just Lucky?

Recently someone noted about the Japanese and then the Germans that they were just lucky about their early successes, well, this for me is just another oversimplification that is just wrong. In this video Justin Pyke (MA) and address this whole issue in a little more detail, with some very specific examples. Definitions of Luck: “Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.” “Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity." You can follow Justin on twitter here: https://twitter.com/CBI_PTO_History Cover design by vonKickass. »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon, see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Corum, James: Defeat of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945. In: Higham, Robin (ed.); Harris, Stephen J. (ed.): Why Air Forces Fail. The Anatomy of Defeat. The University Press of Kentucky: Kentucky, USA, 2006. Frieser, Karl-Heinz: Blitzkrieg-Legende. Der Westfeldzug 1940. 4. Auflage. Oldenbourg Verlag: München, 2012. Jentz, Thomas L.: Panzertruppen – The complete guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany’s Tank Force – 1933-1942. Schiffer Military History: Atglen, USA, 1996. Zaloga, Steven J.: French Tanks of World War II (2) – Cavalry Tanks and AFVs. Osprey Publishing: Oxford, 2014. #GermansWereJustLucky,#LuckInWar,#AllLuckNoSkill

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Volker Hartmann

Oh Bismarck on Hood is a great example. Actually this feeds into Drachinifels video on the evolution of shells. One point I took from there is that in the era of capital ships, as Justin points out here, is that it is no longer a grinding down of the enemy shot by shot like in the age of sail (or many computer games or Star Wars for that matter) but that chance is crucial. That is why when you listen to sea strategy as well as operational deployment they are all the time talking about odds and why it is never enough to bring up one superior ship against another ship to be strong enough to go into the offensive, but you need also numerical superiority. This is something many people are not aware imho...at least I wasn't before I started getting into naval warfare via Drachinifel and Justin.

Hyok Kim

The quality of USMC by Iwo had degraded. They had reduced the physical, mental standard, and reduced the amount of training significantly by then, repeatedly. They needed more bodies to storm the beach. This is by the official admission of USMC itself. The peak of the quality for USMC had reached during the Banana Wars, and has gone down since then. The British had employed multiple poor tactics when up against Bismarck. Instead of firing in synchronization from the get go against Bismarck, they tried to get close to Bismarck in order to minimize the plunging fire against the weak deck armor, but this meant sea spraying their range finders, essentially making them fire with far less accuracy, and closely mirroring each others’ movement, making it that much easier for Bismarck to predict each others’ movement.