“Carpet bomb them. Carpet bomb them all.” - Henry Kissinger

The power of Fabian tactics.... Fascinating that the US would forget the tactics that won it her own independence... History truly is fascinating in that humanity is entertainingly flawed.

dclark142002 plenty of countries “forget”

A reading of HK with Afghanistan in mind means the Taliban has won

@@deprogramm, yes...exactly my point.

it was a bit of an Odyssey and involved a lot of Covid tests, but he needed to come over for Rhineland 45 filming anyway, so we said we film as much TGW as possible before it's time for the living room again.

@@TheGreatWar I don't mind the loving room, though. I like that cute tank model.

The British Empire should have joined the Central Powers in 1914.

@@MarkHarrison733 Why?

@@oliversherman2414 The Central Powers were 100% in the right. The British Empire sided with Serbian terrorists in 1914.

spoiler alert ;)

@@TheGreatWar 👍

Love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

You should take back Northern Ireland from Brits

@@k-studio8112 thank you 🇮🇪🇮🇪

😂😂😂😂😂 Say it too my face

Do you mean this jokingly? I'll take it you do.

@@Roller_Ghoster yes it’s a joke

Coming soon civil war

@@kevinbourke1847 violence was used by both sides and failed.

Odd that he's never heard of boats.

Anyone who says otherwise has their head in the sand

Definitely

@@seanivan5421 Collins betrayed Ireland.

Yes. I just got this notification 2 or 3 minutes ago.

While the Provisionals were sectarian murderers.

@@Roller_Ghoster So, there were no Protestant sectarian murderers? Catch yerself on, fella.

@@PORRRIDGE_GUN The Provos killed more Catholics than any other side in the conflict. Go boil your head "fella".

@@Roller_Ghoster The provos were only defending the catholics living in northern Ireland

@@ronancunningham1705 bollox. Defending Catholics? Lets not mention Jean McConville, Columba McVeigh or the other Disappeared.

Would that be the three soldiers shot in Cork City?

@@seanmacuaiteir437 Just the guy out the lough. I think he was picked up where galvins off license is now in barrack street so he didnt have far to go.

That’s because tories and unionists don’t want us Catholics to know their history of subjugating us

@@ClearPathBeats In the 50's, we Catholic kids did have "fights" with the Prody dog kids but by the early 60's that social tension just faded away.... still despised the Tories but religion didn't seem to come into it any more. We might have been an isolated "liberal" pocket ( Acklam, Teesside ). Now I think of it, my "missing" history might have been because half of us were pushing into a science only school stream and I missed out on the subjects ( history, geography, art ) that I actually liked.

@@ClearPathBeats I think that’s because he Catholic Church in Ireland supported the British government at this time and excommunicated IRA members.

Because it's truly balanced.

...and youtube censors too quickly

I recommend that you read Guerrilla Days in Ireland if you haven't, its Tom Barry's memoirs.

there is only so much detail we can cover in each episode. the particular challenge for this conflict is the disparity in visual sources. lots of British photos etc. from arrests. But not so much from the IRA side. That's doubly true for the engagements. The attack on custom house was an outlier here that we found so many photos. And it's not just a question about if visual material exists, but also if we can get permission to use them for a reasonable price.

Attempted encircling of troops by a visible foe, followed by by withdrawal/retreat....not really noteworthy for the video tbh

@@TheGreatWar Some thoughts on this. Cameras were expensive in the twenties. The forces of the crown had embedded journalists and photographers, the IRA had few, if any. Photography required fixed support services of chemists and darkrooms, which the IRA did not have much access to. And finally, few members of a clandestine army would want to be photographed, knowing that there was always the risk of that photo ending up in the crowns intelligence files on you, especially if the crown forces raided the darkrooms.

This confirms previous thoughts of mine that Percival was a defeatist who majorly screwed up in Singapore

wish they were longer My attention span is hrs long unlike kids today who are may flies.

@@frederickbays405 in that case you can find channels who do 1 hour or longer

Hi Bruce, what outlets are you referring to. I’d like to check them out if you’d be so kind.

@@flemhawker9134 Patreon.

Also curiosity stream. And Great Courses Plus.

Some great stuff on odessy. No adds either

You are in every history channel History geeek

@@sorrybro4890 yeah glad you noticed

Kinda ironic really

True story....just a shame that all those lives lost for independence to then have Brussels running the ROI...also a shame they couldn't see 20+ years in the future to get dominion status, then independence without a shot beinf fired.

Yeah, but Britain didn’t abandon the Unionists of Ulster. The South abandoned the northern Catholics

@@jamesygerrard2626 In 1921 Britain did abandon the Unionists in the today call Republic of Ireland. And today 100 years later in 2021 Britain do abandoning the Unionist in the rest of Ireland, include the Ulster

@@Guinness1066 spotted the Unionist

True well said

Great victory great song

Strictly speaking you are correct but the British would withdraw from 26 out of 32 counties of Ireland. Other countries would look at the military and political aspect of the conflict which would inspire future anti colonial conflicts and wars of liberation. The British Empire would implode and be dismantled over the following decades and historians would look at Ireland as the catalyst for this. Other countries within the British Empire such as India would be influenced by Ireland. Britain knew that success or lack of it in Ireland could have a domino effect on the nations within the Empire.

@@johnroche7541 yes

Not at all, the republic of Ireland came into being.

@@SirAntoniousBlock yeah but i meant at the moment

Ireland got its independence, wouldnt call it a waste of time.

Yes true the viet cong leader ho chi Minh was working as a waiter in London in 1921 and was inspired and learned from the Irish war of I independence to use that 45 years later

Check out the book "The Irish War of Independence" by Michael Hopkinson. Also check out the book "Guerilla Day's in Ireland" by Tom Barry. Tom Barry was an Irishman who served with the British Army(Royal Artillery) during WW1 and saw service in the Middle East(Mesopotamia(modern day Iraq). When he got home to Ireland he joined the IRA and became the most successful rebel IRA commander in the conflict. A lot of IRA men were ex- British soldiers from WW1. Also check out the following movies with an Irish War of Independence theme. "Shake Hands with the Devil" which is from the 1950's and is in black & white. "The Wind that Sheakes the Barley", "Fools of Fortune" and "Michael Collins".

@@johnroche7541 Thanks a lot John Roche

Yet did nothing to help their fellow countrymen in the North? For that reason they will never be celebrated

Indeed. Belfast was murderous.

True basically unknown

Definitely

The Ottoman Empire had already ceased to exist.

I agree

which Loads the UK has hundred of them and so do many other nations

I suspect that Jesse’s pronounciation is closer to the original Spanish than anyone’s in Ireland. Funnily enough I once shared a classroom with his granddaughter, the former minister Síle De Valera, and have played football against his great grandson, who weirdly is born and bred Italian.

Downloaded onto my phone via Deezer. Cheers for the steer. Great song and great lyrics

@@PORRRIDGE_GUN Despite Brady's Ham trying to destroy it.

Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man!

@@joseaca1010 There's no fooling you.

@@joseaca1010 the IRA didn’t do too much fighting like men - they sneaked around planting bombs and killing hundreds of off duty police and innocent civilian men, women and children for 25 years in the 1970s to 90s. The IRA actually killed more of their own community than the British Army did!

Well said

They said it's going to be covered in August or September of this year.

It’s up

Why was my reply deleted?

they already did one I think

@@Game_Hero No, only about the Polish-Lithuanian war which most Historians say as far as I know was a Part of the Independence war but not the Main fight against the Bolseviks.

Me too

What ?

Me too

Indy Neidell is currently working for the World War 2 Week-by-Week series, while Jesse, the current narrator is also doing a Franco-Prussian Week-by-Week series on the channel Real Time History.

Are you sure? Scottish and Irish will have there nations reuinted by force or by will sooner or later.....

@@JordanHatch777 I mean if Ireland joins the UK by choice then they'll be united under the crown again

@@saint4life09 never going to happen.we enjoy our freedom

@@arat2757 Yeah I was pointing out the absurdity of the comment in that Scotland and Ireland have only ever been united under the UK.

@@saint4life09 i mean your not wrong Edit:just remembered scotland was once an independent country

yes, in May.

Indy Neidell is currently working for the World War 2 Week-by-Week series, while Jesse, the current narrator is also doing a Franco-Prussian Week-by-Week series on the channel Real Time History.

The equivalent of this today is wearing a tinfoil hat and faking vaccine effects on TikTok. SMH

True sure as needed now

There's a difference between rebelling against a representative government, and rebelling against a non-representative government.

Sinn fein are anti irish communists.

we covered non-european focused topics over the winter. and we will make more.

I second this!

It literally was a fight against colonialism. That's not oversimplification.

@@seanmacuaiteir437 How does killing innocent Irish protestant civilians advance the cause against British colonialism? Is it a crime to not be Catholic?

@@cpt_bill366 that's why the IRA fought the British army and RIC(the latter mostly Catholic) instead of just killing loads of innocent Protestants.

@@cpt_bill366 'Is it a crime to not be Catholic?' According to some left footers I've run into...Yes! But you are right. Irish nationalism is supposed to be about being Irish first and foremost. It was supposed to be a secular state IIRC. Were not some of the first Irish nationalists from the protestant faith, and even English in heritage? I consider myself Irish. But never Catholic or Protestant.

@@cpt_bill366 irish protestant and irish catholics killed colonists

It worked though. It wasn't symbolic it destroyed the ability of the Brits to administrate Ireland.

Not really a phyric Victory but a Victory

In the World War 2 channel

Love that song

They were mostly stolen during attacks on police barracks during the early months of the war.

Although efforts were made to bring weapons from Germany by submarine but informers as usual made this unsuccessful

@@jamescoughlan8193 Not in that time period. War of independance was after WW1, so there were no German submarines.

@@paulwalsh598 they tried to have them landed from a German sub at banna strand in kerry for the easter rising 1916 which is really when the war of independence started in my opinion.

@@jamescoughlan8193 1916 was a sepqate event imo, at that stage the bulk of the nationalist support was still for The Irish Parlimentary party and Redmonds volunteers. It was the British reaction to 1916 that gave rise to the war of indepence and the switch of support from Redmonds party to Sein Fein. However the point remains that the question asked was where the IRA got weapons and the answer to that was not from Germany but rather they were stolen from the RIC mostly, and from private hands secondly. I am aware of German attempts to land guns in Ireland both in Kerry and Roger Casements attempt on his yacht, but most of these attempts failed in the first instance and secondly most of the guns sucessfully smuggled in were captured upon the surrender of the 1916 rebels.

Devalera was awfully machiavellian

It's gone on for over 800 years

The Irish started invading Britain pre Roman times

That is a difficult question to answer as it depends on your definition of "Irish" and "British". Pirates from the island of Ireland were raiding Britain back in the BCs, at a time when the native Britons were all Celtic speaking and there were no Anglo saxons.

OK, but one problem. I don't remember any other part of the British empire protesting or condeming it at the time, being silent makes you indirectly responsible. So what I want to say is that it was in fact British who were involved in irish war of independence.

No such thing as Irish Slavery, it’s called apprenticing and it happened in England aswell

You... know that Scotland and Wales colonised Ireland before 1707, right?

The Irish slaves claims are a pile of nonsense created by American white supremacists. There is zero evidence for it.

@@ea.fitz216 Rubbish. Where did you get that from? Ireland actually invaded and took over parts of Wales and Scotland before this.

Was it made for free? $15 USD a year practically is free.

True a real David against Goliath type struggle too bad the Irish government today doesn't recognize it

At the time of the 11th July Truce 1921 the British Crown Forces in Ireland were over 58,500 soldiers and almost 16,000 policemen. I have no figures for RAF,Royal Marines and Royal Navy personnel. The British had at least 80,000 men in Ireland. They also had armoured cars,lorries,artillery,planes,calvary,both heavy and light machine guns and inexhaustible ammo resources. The IRA might have an impressive strength on paper but in terms of armed men they could only put into the field at their peak was 2,500 to 3,500 men. The IED was the most powerful weapon in the IRA arsenal. To use modern military parlance there was a troop surge in Ireland from April to July 1921 which involved thousands of Bditish troop reinforcements to deal with the escalating insurgency.

Revised Civil War death tolls now place the dead at about 1600 not 4000

Thanks the stats were from a book I read in the 1990's. What Scotland in a much more muted form is what Ireland had through most of the,19th and early 20th centuries. Although obviously without the terrible effects of the potato famine and mass migration.

@@seanmacuaiteir437 I may have replied to some of your posts on other Irish War of Independence sites. Anyway this is an excellent episode from the Great War team. However some of the facts and figures are totally wrong. I have researched this conflict for over 20 years that has brought me to the archives and museums in London,Dublin and Belfast. I have also visited the libraries both at local and national level of both countries. I have also visited the regimental museums in Scotland, Wales and England. I would question his death toll for the conflict. I am not saying my figures are 100% correct but his is too low. His casualties for police is too low. Over 430 policemen were killed as a result of hostile action and this figure does not include dozens policemen killed as a result of accidents,suicide or blue on blue(friendly fire). For police casualties check out the works of Richard Abbott and Jim Herlihy who are police historians and have served as police officers in Northern Ireland and Republic respectively. However I have come across a couple of policemen who were killed accidentally but do not appear in either of these works. There is a Roll of Honour for police casualties in Belfast for this conflict and there is also one in Lancashire,England which has a casualty roll for all police casualties from the UK(from the founding date of all British police forces)including Ireland(pre-independence). I have also researched regular British Army figures. Around 180 British soldiers were killed as a result of hostile action. Their deaths can be confirmed by the CWGC. This figure for British soldiers could rise as there is some British soldiers who went "missing" and their fate unknown. However some of these missing soldiers were captured by the IRA and executed and secretly buried. For example the bodies of 2 British soldiers from the East Lancashire Regiment were found near Killarney in Co.Kerry in 1926. Hundreds of British soldiers died in Ireland as a result of accidents,suicide and sickness. You must remember that a lot of British soldiers died in Ireland as a result of the Spanish Flu after WW1 and I dont incorporate these in my figures. In Co.Limerick for example in the spring of 1919 over 30 British soldiers died as a result of Spanish Flu. I know that in Ireland there was a massive undertaking to chronicle all the deaths from 1916-1923 period. I think the title of this project is "The Dead of the Irish Revolution". One of the men involved is a teacher at TCD. I gave him a list of Royal Marines that were killed in Ireland during the conflict that he was not aware of. It is virtually impossible to come up with a 100% accurate death toll for any war or conflict.

The British is very bad in slot of things

Kerry is an anti-Semite.