“People riding around in a g e e p”

"Let's make peace!" [Fingers crossed behind the back]

Germany: *creates and uses the flamethrower and chemical gases America: *creates and uses shotguns Germany: *You weren't supposed to do that*

3:14 “but the smoke bombs weren’t followed by gas but the Australians” Never been prouder of my country

So get this guys We make a giant piñata. We gift it to the enemy. BUT...there's a shit ton of our guys in there. What do ya think?

When your chilling in your trench trying to avoid a gas attack but some Aussie hops in there and cranks off 6 shots into your chest

Less of war trick, more of a postwar one. After the landslide victory in Battle of Kleidion, Byzantine Emperor Basil II grouped up 100 Bulgarian soldiers and blinded 99 of them, and the only remainder? One eye gouged out; for he has to lead his friends back to their commander. Bulgarian Emperor just f*cking scared to death by this. This happened to 15,000 POWs. One of the biggest dick moves in human history.

Dirtiest trick? The power harpoon (rope thing) used to take down AT AT walkers in the battle of hoth.

I heard that (not sjre if this is actually true) during the war between Egyptians and Persians, Persians brought cats to the frontlines as their first line of defense. The Egyptians, who considered cats sacred animals, refused to attack and surrendered

When Austria blamed Germany for the first world war.

Every time the Russians destroyed their cites and let winter do their job for them.

General shepherd did all of us dirty😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Not dirty, but clever as all hell. During China's War of the Three Kingdoms, a General well known for his intelligence and cunning was resting at a town with only a token force when an enemy army approached. The general ordered his men to open the gate and hide while he sat above it playing his flute. When the enemy saw the general sitting in front of a defenseless town they immediately suspected a trap and retreated.

8:03 Normal person: Sun Tzu Computer: SON TEE-ZET-ZU

*_Hannibal has joined the chat_*

The opium war. Forcibly exporting drugs to the rival country.

4:41 fun fact! 'Majnoon' means Madman in Arabic. The battle was literally called the battle of the madman.

"the smoke bombs were not followed by gas, but by the Australians"

Before I watch, my favorite is either barbarians peeing on spikes, infecting people, Or marines storming panama while blaring the song Panama, while they lost coordination, we won

The germans fell for a classic blunder, expecting gas, getting australians. Really need to think harder

"Everybody died, men, women, and children. The children were tortured four days on end. The men were hung in the streets as decoration. And the women were set on fire" *In the background* Dun da da da dun dun da da dun dun dun dun

I see no mention of one of the mist pivotal battles in Japanese History. Okehazama. Oda Nobunaga convinced one of his villages to surrender and throw a feast for the Imagawa, while he took his forces into the mountains to flank them. His timing was perfect as a powerful thunderstorm rolled in which covered the sound of his charge. That one victory changed the course of history and turned a poor countryside Daimyo into one of the most feared and respected men of his time. Also hated. Especially by Buddist monks XD Which led to yet another dirty trick. Incinerating and massacering the most holy site for the Buddist monks. And then there was him marching his ashigaru with lit matchlocks, and of course his obliteration of the Takeda forces using volley fire and field defenses. Seriously. The man used tactics that were utterly insane to others.

0:37 This is by far the dirtiest and most cruel Ive heard

In terms of the event at the time, it was more than likely considered a dirty trick but maybe not now. During the Hussite Wars (if you’re unaware, the Hussites were from Bohemia, the modern day Czech Republic, and were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church due to ideology. Imagine proto-Protestants, one things they did being preaching in Czech. This launched wars to “cleanse” Bohemia from heresy but they eventually gave up until a thing called the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 where the Czechs threw an Austrian diplomat out a window because they didn’t like the Holy Roman Emperor’s policies he was trying to enforce which then sparked a happy little thing called the 30 Years’ War where 8 million people were killed. After this, the movement died out due to Catholic influence and more Protestant churches.), Bohemians would use wagon forts. When outnumbered, they would set up wagons usually in square formations and put all of their forces in them. Riflemen (arquebuses in terms of this period, “primitive” muskets.) would fire at incoming infantry while Bohemian halberdiers, spearmen and other infantry would follow up with a counter attack by charging out of the fort with assistance from artillery. Behind said infantry were the cavalry that were also in said wagon fort and you can see how despite being so simple, it was so effective. And so I conclude my essay on this note: Wagenburg >>>>

7:53 I heard of something similar, that you shouldn’t approach dying suspects, because there’s apparently something called the ‘dead man’s grip’ in which a dying person will attempt to strangle you, and not let go even if they are shot or something.

My fav thing about the bat bombs is they super worked and would have been devastating. They worked so well that every test facility burned to the ground from escaped bats.

Actually told to me from my uncle who worked on an airbase during the war. During Vietnam, to get information from the Vietnamese war prisoners, US troops would take two prisoners up into a helicopter on base. They would fly the heli straight up a hundred feet up or so. A higher up would have a translator on stand by before, without notice or hesitation, kick one of the prisoners out of the hovering copter. They would make the other prisoner watch his ally fall and die before asking them "give us some info or you'll end up like him". Even if they were given info, they would kill them the same way anyway. Once that was all said and done, they move onto the next pair. My uncle just watched in fear. Haunts him to this day watching the cleaning crew scrubbing the blood and bits off the helipad.

0:25 "Private Joe Blow" ...Uh...save it for your bedroom, alright, fella?

The one that I know of was Operation Mincemeat. The British in WW2 dressed up a dead Welsh homeless man as a intelegence agent and sent him to the shore of Italy with a briefcase of falsified information for tactical deception. Although the relative success of the trick is disputable, Sicily was saved much faster than anticipated with fewer casualties.

Sherman during the civil war tearing apart Railroads in the South to permanently ruin their means of transportation.

There's the classic trick of stabbing your arrows into a rotting corpse before a battle to make wounds be more likely to get infected (and to deal extra poison damage).

I love how you can complain that poisoning wells and water sources is a war crime. It's so civil considering that two forces are killing thousands of people of the other faction. It reminds me of games where people complain about cheating and stuff.

U.S. troops in WWII realized that M1 Garands made loud pinging noises when reloaded. Thus, to draw out enemies, they would load an emptied magazine into the gun and release the clip. When Axis forces looked for the guys reloading, all troops would focus fire on anyone who peeked out of cover.

I’d say the dirtiest war tactic would be having two of your best men raid your primary targets safe house on the Georgian-Russian border, having them escape with loads and loads of information on the target, and when they arrive at the LZ to extract the information, you shoot them, cover them in gasoline and light them on fire. Rip in peace Ghost/Roach 😔✊

Subutai Baatur. Just about every campaign he fought had the dirtiest and most cimplex set of tricks I've ever read throughout the entirety of Military History but my favoirite is definitely the Great Kwarezmian Raid. Subutai had his Mongol force of roughly 20,000 face up against a coalition of Russian and Hungarian forces of 80,000. Instead of fighting head on, Subutai retreated for 9 days though he always made sure that his army was to be only a few hours ahead of the opposing vanguard. During their retreat Subutai had his men make toys to leave behind then slowly release prisoners to give the impression that they were an uncoordinated force of families and peasant soldiers. At the end of the eighth day, Subutai had managed to stretch the opposing army so much so that the Vanguard could no longer be supported. In the morning of the ninth day, Subutai turned his entire army around and launched a brutal strike against the coalition. 80,000 men turned into a long line of 1,000 - 10,000 man sections and were easily crushed by the Mongol horde. The rearguard caught wind of what was happening and decided to set up a defensive position over by a near by hill and sat there for three days more as the Mongols surrounded them and bombarded the fledgeling army with a constant hail of arrows. Naturally, the remaining force attempted to call for a ceasefire and go home without a fight. Subutai accepted this surrender and once the coalition aemy had left the hill the Mongols attacked however Subutai ordered that a gap in the line be present. This made the remaining force's morale to break and attempt to flee rather than fight and were easily cut down. TL;DR Subutai bamboozles and wins against a force four times larger than his own

I remember seeing this purple haired lady turn her capital ship around at the enemies mobile fob and engaging the hyperdrive without the inhibitors activated resulting in the fob being torn in half and the debris from the crash destroying the entire enemy fleet. It’s like the one thing that everyone in the entire galaxy had agreed to never do.

The Germans droped food packs on starving Stalingrad when opened they would explode

13:42 Im fairly sure the only reason the plan to send incendiary bats into Japan didn’t work was because the nuke finished at basically the same time as the bats, making them obsolete. But I could be wrong

1:25 ww1 was in the time where there was advanced warfare but before laws regulating that warfare

2:17 That is literally a fighting game technique. Tune the opponent’s reflexes to counter one tactic, then abruptly switch to another that counters the counter when they least expect it.

At the Battle of Red Cliffs, the massive armies of the northern warlord Cao Cao marched south to reunify China one and for all. His army consisted of a land contingent and a sizable fleet sailing down the Yangtze River. On the other side were the armies of warlords Sun Quan and Liu Bei. Despite their combined strength, the southern coalition was outnumbered. Despite Cao Cao's numerical advantage, his men were not used to travelling by boat, so to improve stability, Cao Cao had his ships chained together, turning them into one giant floating platform for his army. Seeing this, Sun Quan's general, Huang Gai came up with a brilliant strategem to defeat Cao Cao's numerically superior force. Huang Gai led his small force of ships up to Cao Cao's forces, claiming to want to defect to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was happy to receive Huang Gai, hoping he'd bring valuable intel and thus help him deliver a swift victory. However, as Huang Gai's ships approached Cao Cao's fleet, Huang Gai gave a signal and his men set their own ships alight and abandoned ship right before aiming them at Cao Cao's fleet. Huang Gai's fire ships completely took Cao Cao by surprise as they crashed into Cao Cao's fleet. As Cao Cao was coming from the north, the situation was further exacerbated by the fact that the wind was blowing northward, thus blowing the fire towards the rest of his fleet. Before long, Cao Cao's entire fleet was aflame, and most of his men drowned. At this point, Sun Quan and Liu Bei counterattacked his remaining forces on land, forcing Cao Cao to retreat, and completely stopping his southward expansion, and his plans to reunify China.

Smh the real dirt move was when lee Harvey Oswald 360 no scoped Nixon

My teacher once told me this story which I can’t remember much of but he and his men were hiding behind trees and stuff and so were the enemy, so it got really quiet (btw no shots were fired yet) and he said “BOOM” really loudly and the enemy took off.

I don't know if this actually happened or not, but the dirtiest trick I ever read about was the strategy of the empty castle. This was Ancient China, mind you. Basically what happened was that this one general inside a palace was warned that an opposing nation was coming for his palace, now seeing that he lacks the force to defend his castle he had the insane idea to open all the gates make a lot of loud noise to generally make it seem like they were having a festival. The reasoning behind this was that if the enemy saw that they were celebrating, then that must mean that they're REALLY confident that then can defend their castle. As the enemy general was approaching the castle, he heard the music, saw all the gates were open and thought to himself, "hmm, this is either a trap or they're really confident that they'll win this skirmish" so he turned back. I might not have brought the story any justice it deserves, but the story is brilliant and ballsy as hell regardless.

For anyone that dosent know that the Monash was the first Australians general to lead Australia’s first men before that they where used as cannon fodder by the British he was a revolutionary man and that is why his portrait is on the Australian $100 bill or note depending where ur from

13:20 Well... That plan 'backfired'. :3

One of my all time favorites was by Subotai (I'm probably spelling that incorrectly). Subotai was one of Ghengis Khan's generals and was leading a force into Europe where a group of Balkan nations made an alliance to fight off the invading Mongols. He then convinced one of the nations to betray the other nations by giving them wagons full of valuable gold. The nation retreated back to their home land and allowed Subotai to absolutely destroy the other nations. However, the gold weighed down the wagons, and Subotai's army easily caught up and slaughtered their allies and took back all their Gold.

Suprised the battle of san jacinto was not mentioned. Texas won its independence from Mexico by wakeing up very early after the Mexican army got drunk and partied. We slit all their thoughts as the slept, winning the battle in 18min. Mexico surrendered and retreated across the Rio Grande. Remeber the Alamo.

In ancient Egypt, cats were held in high regards. According to one of their goddesses, the punishment for killing a cat was death. So when Persia invaded Egypt, the Persians had cats as hostages at the Battle of Pelusium, and the Egyptians refused to fight and surrendered.

The time the Armenians dropped pallets of flour on a mountainside side battle against the Azeris. It was psychological warfare, the Azeris thought it was a chemical weapons attack, were routed and slaughtered. Wish I posted in the thread

Vinyl ridge is my favourite where the Canadians literally dug underground almost right up to the German defences and popped in front of them

Seems like every major victory was because some general was like: ima just do this age old tradition differently. And it completely shocking the enemy

USA putting gallons of lsd and acid in local water supply back in Vietnam god just picturing fighting a war when a dragon is between you and your shit paper lol.

During Operation Phantom Fury, insurgents would jack their men up with adrenaline, so it would take half of a U.S. Marine's clip to kill 1 insurgent. I have a friend who fought there, and he said he had to stab an enemy 4 times in the skull to kill them.

That battle in La Hammel was done almost similarly to the battle in which Scipio fought Carthage in Iberia.. For one week straight he kept a routine of going out to the field, formed formations, march, stop, then pull back again to the camp. On the 7th day, before the sun even set, he told his men to have breakfast sooner, then sent out skirmishers to the Carthaginian camp, while his men finishing up their food and setting up formation. In the end the Carthaginian were completely unprepared and had to rushed out the men with empty stomach...

“We will find peace” said the spider to the fly as the fly saw the spiders’ jet fighters in the sky.

idk if this counts but bush invaded iraq after 9/11 and they recently found out that the evidence bush used was faulty, so therefore bush invaded iraq for no reason becides oil :P

They didn't mention the trench gun. Good to know.

"Ok we'll fight tomorrow because it's the sabbath today and we aren't allowed to do war" *attacks when other faction is asleep*

Like half of these can be summed up by: "Did you know that sometimes, commanders DON'T smash their armies together like kids with action figures. Sometimes, they ACTUALLY THINK! What an idea, right guys?".

4:40 "This happened nightly". I'm not a general, but maybe the Iranians should have changed their tactic.

“Geep”

I'm amazed this video didn't mention Cambyses II and the fact the literally threw loads of cats at the Egyptian armies, who worshipped the hell outta them, so they'd be too distracted to fight. And it worked.

LOL@11:27 "Where can I get this honey?"

Jenga’s Khan That’s what the bot made Genghis Khan sound like.

When us army cant take down taliban snipers from mountain. They called an airstrike.

Sir Arthur Currie. Canadian General in WW1. As far as I know, he invented the “creeping barrage” and much of the concepts currently used in modern infantry tactics

As an australian, i love the part at 3:06 We can be an absolutely terrifying enemy at times

Convincing the American population that they’re the good guys

No one: Not me: Not you: People who are early: *fIrSt*

"the smoke bombs were not followed by gas, but by the Australians" The single most terrifying thing that could happen in a war.

That time when I was twelve and "accidentally"bumped the RISK board when my older brother thought he was about to win. "OOPS!"

you want a dirty trick, KZfaq wants you to pay to end ads or they can keep getting that ad revenue regardless

The Battle of Itter Castle: Wehrmacht soldiers fighting alongside US Soldiers against the Waffen SS. Good prank on the real villains of WW2.

You know that iconic *DING!* sound the M1 Garand makes once you empty the clip? The ones you hear in FPS games? Germans soon figured out that the *Ding!* sound meant the US soldier was out of ammo and used it in their favor to advance or retreat once they hear it. The US soldiers soon realized this and began to intentionally makes the *Ding* sounds on their rifles to trick the Germans into moving from their cover.

If you could sneak something into hitlers food why would it be estrogen loool

Not sure which idea came first but at 1 point, the US wanted to nuke Tokyo. Some ambassador stopped the president by expressing its cultural significance. Hence America decided to firebomb it instead... *America 100*

gEeP

Can someone punch me plz?

Another fun fact about the incendiary bats: the Army and Air Force (the most well funded branches of the military) individually tried weaponizing them and failed. The USMC (the branch with the least funds) turned them into a viable weapon. The US just thought nukes were neat by this time, though

The Narrowwater bombings in the Troubles in 1979 was also extremely devious. On a regular British army patrol, a 227kg fertiliser bomb exploded at the roadside, destroying a British truck and killing six soldiers. The IRA had studied the way the brits responded to incidents like this and correctly predicted that the British reinforcements would set up an Incident command post on the other side of the road, by a gatehouse. In the gatehouse was an 800kg fertiliser bomb that exploded and killed 12 soldiers. This was the single most deadliest bombing by the IRA in the troubles

Sun T Zed U

British confirmed dirtiest fighters

We flew a mini drone over Fallujah in order to draw insurgent fire from rooftops. They had no idea we had a bigger one watching from above. Glad that dog made it out of that house before impact.

Battle of Pelusium was a war between Egypt and Persia where Egypt is defending and Persia is attacking. At that time Egyptians believed some animals were sacred (e.g. cats) and would never hurt them in any way shape or form. The Persians knew this and abused it, the 7000 Persians were equipped with cats for Shields against 50000 Egyptians. The Egyptian soldiers were worried they would harm the cats and did not attack. The Persians won.

7:35 the Germans complained about war crimes? The ACTUAL FRICK?

@7:53 So, the 'paste words into robot voice' is hard enough to listen to, then you add the bad edit audio pops and parts of a line from other audio... How hard is it to listen to the robot voice while copy/pasting or editing? Can you not change Sun Tzu's name from "Sun tee zed you", to 'sun soo' or 'sun sue' or 'sun zoo' so that we don't have to listen to this amateur garbage? I guess pumping 'content' out efficiently, is more important than being good at it. Unsubbed. Last video I watch from here.

My grandpa told me that in Vietnam Vietnamese sappers would turn their claymores around at night so when they were detonated they hit us instead of them. In response they had to start putting reflectors on the backs of claymores so that you could tell which way they were facing but then the Vietnamese just starts bringing their own reflectors.

The drip rifle was genius

There was an instance during the Three Kingdoms Period of China in which one very sneeky tactic was used. A tactician named Zhuge Liang was trapped in a fortress completely outnumbered by Cao Cao’s forces. Rather than surrender, Zhuge Liang told his men to hide, flung open the doors, sat on top of the walls and played the lute. Cao Cao thought it was a trap and left.

One dirty trick: during the guerrilla war in the early 2000's, the Colombian army decided to literally "scare the life out of tymochenko", they launched a full on attack on his main bases in guaviare (name of the state) which lasted for several hours, it included artillery, 40 mm cannons and helicopters, this eventually worked and it resulted in tymochenko having a heart attack (he had really bad cardiac condition) and eventually most of the F.A.R.C EP surrendered

Idk how dirty it was, but during World War II American soldiers equipped with M1 Garands started to use a trick involving their empty clips. The famous 'PING!' noise from the M1 Garand meant that the clip was empty, this giving German soldiers a cue to attack. Americans learned about this and sometimes threw empty clips against something to make the distinctive noise of the clip popping out and shot the Germans who caught onto the noise.

I’ll add one. Tom Barry, genius guerrilla leader in the Irish war of independence, had his small flying column under siege in a small village in the south of Ireland by the British. He knew the Brits were short of resources, so he blew a trumpet as if a huge army was about to storm out of the village. The Brits then retreated, expecting a bloodbath. Then the few Irish troops were able to sneak out and regroup. Genius.

France: *Makes maggot line* Germany:What if we went through Belgium?

7:57 was the tactic used in D-DAY. Basically, allies forced their troops to the beach. Imagine being stuck there. >On their front was the "impregnable" wall full of mines, barbed wires, and german machine guns raining down on them. >On their back was the rough seas of the English Channel. >Staying put was out of the question, they're being continuously bombarded by coastline artillery and mortar defenses and strafed by German Lutwaffe. Other boats are also continuously arriving and soon the beach will be crowded. 2 choices: turn back and swim across the cold waters back to england or Move forward and kill the enemy.

My dad told me about an old Vietnam vet from the 90s that would talk about his stories one that stuck out was that they’d put grenades in mason jars and drop them from there helicopter, so when the grenade exploded and the glass broke glass would fly everywhere

Alexander building a damn land bridge. 200 iq move lol

7:10 - I do believe the relevant quote is, "If you are not using the army, I would like to borrow it for a while."

During his campaigns in Gaul, Caesar was trying to cross a river and Vercingetorix kept blocking him. Every day, the legions would form their standard marching column and march along the river, with the Gauls shadowing them. One day, Caesar had the legions form up just a bit thinner, and had the spare troops hid in the woods. After every had left they crossed the river, and held the beachhead while the rest of the legions came back and joined them.

Carolus Rex came up with the bright idea of just waiting until the snow was blowing into the Russians eyes so they would be blinded. Then rushed them and had a pretty much flawless victory. He was pretty damn good at coming up with stupid tactics that would work. Clever kid.