Thank you shmallen

Thrawn would be the Star Wars equivalent of Gen. James Mattis.

I love you smellan

Ridge is down! Maul’s advancing towards the main hangar!

The United States Navy Can learn from Star wars Empire Grand Admiral Thrawn.

He's actually playing 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel.

Thrawns playing 4D chess while the opponent hasn't even sat at the table yet

Idk has Thrawn given someone his loyalty without reason?

Makes sense to me.

The Sun Tzu of Star Wars

Such a great quote.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

@@RDeathmark did I make that up or did someone say that?

I feel like Mando is going to be confused as frick when Thrawn starts talking about him

@@Aidan-zc8wx thrawn be like; "where's that Jedi with the space whales?" Mando; ....?

@@malakai_adam Im hoping he and Ezra are on the same side now. Thrawn was never an actual villain, he was trying to save the galaxy

@@Aidan-zc8wx that would be pretty sicc

Yep, that’s the essence of it when one wishes to bring utter ruin upon their enemies. It’s quite apparent that Timothy Zahn, the creator of Thrawn, definitely drew some major inspirations from _The Art of War_ when writing the character as an exceptional military strategist/leader. *“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”* *-Sun Tzu*

@@MrJH101 Word, I love Knowledge

Thing is he was totally and completely right

Thanos is right. Thrawn is right. "The hardest choices require the strongest will."

@@Mastervading4306 Thanos was not right, Thrawn is only yet to be wrong. Thanos could've done any number of other things to save the world, killing half of it was far from a long term solution. Repopulation wouldn't just cease. He's a traumatized god with an ego complex, not even extraordinarily intelligent like Thrawn. Thrawn is admittedly brilliant, but he's been wrong on the small scale many times and his confidence in his ability to predict people/situations will eventually cause him to be wrong on the large scale. There is no such thing as the "greater good", only individual perception of it. Pursuing it is ultimately selfish. He simply cannot be so certain that they'd suffer a worse fate with no other solution in the mean time and that he is the best solution that could come. Mainly due to the fact that there are forces he literally cannot control, ala the Force, which can do things unimaginable to Thrawn, and many beings that are above him dimensionally. His understanding of these things will never be complete because the beings that could reveal the knowledge to him never will, and they aren't things you intuitively understand. He will never be as absolutely intelligent as he would need to be to make such calls, he is not omnipotent.

@@Nezxmi Ummm where the hell did Thanos come into this? Thrawn doesnt have a handfull of magic rocks that can remake the Universe. Their is such a thing as doing something you may not like hell even despise it but a person may still do it anyway as not doing it would lead to an even worse outcome. And if anyone truly believes otherwise is an idiot that truly has been blessed with an easy life that they are spoiled to such a degree that they could even think such a way that everything is sunshine and rainbows when things are not so easy. If Thrawn is not yet proven wrong.... Doesn't that means that he is right because certian idiots can not find any logical proof without relying on emotion that he is wrong

@@TheMajesticJackOff Did you read the whole thread or even my whole comment? I was replying to someone who mentioned both Thanos and Thrawn, then quoted Thanos. And I credited Thrawn with actually being an extraordinary individual while Thanos wasn't, so I'm aware they're quite different. Doing the right thing is simply doing the right thing. Of course the distinction between right and wrong is only ever a matter of degree. Sometimes a large degree, sometimes a miniscule degree. That is not what the "greater good" Thrawn is referring to is. His "greater good" is an uncertain variable and he's aware of that. He says "if the New Republic in unable", fully acknowledging they that MAY be able to defend themselves when the time comes. Thrawn is only yet to be proven wrong in large scale battle because he works with nearly inexhaustible resources and an incredible invasive Imperial network. He has the intelligence and all of the resources he needs to succeed, so of course he usually will against opponents that are incapable of extraordinary feats. That is why it takes a main character for Thrawn's plans to start going awry. Also your condemnation of emotion in favor of "logic" tells me that you don't understand Thrawn or what makes him so dangerous. It is his willingness and want to understand you, even to an emotional level, that is terrifying, not his ability to calculate and think logically. He understands why people act because he understands what they care about and what drives them, not because they're just stupid or unintelligent.

@Eye Patch Guy At least the First Order spared no expense when it can to equipping their TIEs with hyperdrives

And still build another, even larger superweapon...

@@isaackim7675 But even with hyperdrives they were ineffective fighter craft. The First Order is hit with the stupid/villain bat just as hard as the Galactic Empire, even when they literally take over the galaxy. Star Wars setting and some characters are AWESOME. Star Wars writing is TRASH.

@@Arkancide Stupid plot armor. It gets everywhere

@Eye Patch Guy Except Palps had already spent so much time on the Death Star since the start of the Clone Wars. To just suddenly drop a supermassive project like that for some fancy new fighters was probably not feasible by the time Thrawn acquired the level of authority required to request such a thing.

*The Art of War, Sun Tzu* is the greatest military book

@@Lordof956 Indeed. I only read a portion of it. Hopefully, I will get to finish it eventually.

Agreed. You get the sense that his apparent political mis-steps in _Thrawn_ were more of a "just as planned" manipulation than anything else. He convinced Vader of his loyalty in the sequel, and left everyone pretty happy with him in the third novel - despite having to compete with two Imperial rivals and finesse the interference of a Chiss task force all the while. The only time when he was really blindsided was when Pryce decided a bit of mass murder would cover her tracks nicely, and vaporized several thousand civilians Thrawn was trying to not butcher. Everything else pretty much ended up working out in his favor.

If he was to go for politics, he would be a mirror of palpatines political ways

@@jacklan4103 You can't truly believe that Palpatine would turn away a weapon to destroy planets? Thrawn would've lost the funding regardless of his political skill, evident by Death Star II. The Emperor's ego had to be fulfilled and it cost him his life.

I love how anakin really tried to say his name in alliances

You forgot Hannibal barca

No need for it just read that you are determined as the script says so

@@TorianTammas Rip

Or to quote an American General on the matter, "Rommel you magnificent bastard, I read your book!" Funny enough, Rommel's work is still studied and utilized by many modern armies.

@@lordfrostwind3151 Was that Patton?

@@501ststormtrooper9 indeed it was

He only just had good intention just the wrong side i wonder what if thrawn joined the rebel alliance

@@ini_Nyawa There's already a video about that by LoreGuy. You can go check it out if you wanted.

I think eckharts ladder did one as well and what if thrawn joined the unsc in halo pretty cool stuff

@@lerneanlion I had to disagree with lore guy saying he won't fit the rebels view of tactics while he used their tactics to their greatest during his campaign against New republic

@@ryanmcgowan417 I'm watching thr Thrawn VS the Covenant video now.

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Holdo needs to write it all down. "Loyalty should not be given without reason."

@Eye Patch Guy Ugh...fixed, thx

Yea the cartoon version of him doesn’t do justice

I didn’t either until I started reading the Thrawn books, and oh my goodness he’s literally my most favorite character ever, even if he fights for the empire, he’s just so much more complex than just a villain

We could have Thrawn, but we got Hux instead.

Hear me out... Thrawn Trilogy with a handful of tweaks. Sebastian Stan as Luke. Mark Hamill as Cloned, age accelerated Dark Side Luke standing in for Cbaoth. (Basically Palpatine cloned him from the hand with accelerated growth so he could a new apprentice but died before the process was complete. Insane Luke clone is left with an entire storehouse full of Dark Side relics to learn to use the Force.) The rest of the trilogy is basically unchanged.

Appearance/demeanor-wise, I also get Dracula-like vibes from Thrawn's character.

you mean hannibal barca my dude

Half Polish half Uzbek I would guess

They Really say that?!

@@nobleman9393 I have found some people in internet that say the same abot Thrawn

Would Thrawn have disobeyed Vader's orders? Or did Tarkin need Vader's permission to blow up Alderaan? It seems the Empire was fixing to use the Death Star anyways.

Pretty good book mine has the ancient Chinese translation with the English.

@@ryanmcgowan417 I recommend these books, the seven military classics of ancient china, the 36 strategies of ancient china, the book of 5 rings

@@Lordof956 I've read the Book of the Five Rings several times. It is one of those few books where there always seems to be something new to be learned.

I feel the same way

So you saw everything is a nail but you need the proper tools becaue one nail needs a hammer and another nail needs a screwdriver as it is really a screw. Which makes battlefield a meaningless term when you need different tools.

@@TorianTammas espionage is a different tool used in warfare....