Top 10 Greatest Military Blunders of World War II
Top 10 Greatest Military Blunders of World War II POSTED BY JEFF DANELEK ON APRIL 26, 2010 IN HISTORY , POLITICS | 57,954 VIEWS | 115 RESPONSES There’s no doubt that the Second World War was the greatest conflict in modern history and the one event that continues to impact our world to this day. Consider how the world would look today had it not been fought, or had Japan and Germany won? And, even more intriguing, what if B had happened instead of A and the world taken a different direction as a result? It staggers the imagination. The fact that it turned out the way it did, however, was the result of a number of factors, both positive and negative. What’s perhaps most important in understanding why one side won and the other lost is in recognizing that victory was not determined so much by who won the most battles—although ultimately that was a factor—but by who made the fewest costly mistakes. With that in m...