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Yes you can up the payment once (it will get charged from your account immediately) and then scale back to the amount you want it to be.

Am I still a member of the Airborne Division? Another person pointed out on patreon that it's no longer available. I was just wondering if it's maxed out or if it was phased out. It says I'm still a member of it as I have been for nearly twelve months.

Happy thanksgiving (even if y’all don’t celebrate it). Have a good day Sabaton History team!

Sabaton History have you guys ever considered the American revolution doing songs from both US and British sides of the conflict PS have a happy Thanksgiving

Stop Tank Cannibalism 2021 🇺🇸🇺🇸

My reaction as well

I thought the same exact thing!

@@memeg8076 Those poor tanks...

With dozens of mongolians as backing singers

Do a collab with The HU.

Yuve Yuve Yu

I had the exact same idea before reading your comment :D

KaptenN Yes Yes Yes

there were also a few groups that tried to surrender to helicopter gunships. That worked .... well :)

Okay this might not be the proper reaction but that made me laugh

Yeah. It was Wolf Blitzer. I remember watching that.

@@PfalzD3 Oh, my child hood is comming back at me now.

I remember that as well! Blew me away

we are going to die sooner than we think my friend

Literally me, all the bloody time.

15 Years ago....... There was a war....

2003 is Panzer Battalion. This song is about the Gulf war in 1991

2004 was longer ago, then my birth to 2004. It really doesn't feel like it, but it's a harsh truth :'(

Soon!

Death in the shape of a panzer battalion

Insect of terror don't run face your fate like a man

AKA: Handsome Italian to some.

@@Mace2.0 or Pantsu Battalion for weebs :D

Rudolf the Redwinged Baron

Sabaton Christmas Album!

Fuck yeah

@@suicidalmaniac2005 joakim on triangle

"My name is Indy Neidell and this is Joakim from Sabaton. In todays episode of Sabaton history we tell the tragic story of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, who was blown to pieces by a Soviet air raid while hauling supplies to the front during the Winter War. Turns out a bright red nose is quite easy to spot from a plane at night."

Most wars that we remember did that and Desert Storm rather less so. The Six Days War had most of what Desert Storm had other than GPS and for obvious reasons carrier operations. (When all the belligerents share land borders and all the fronts fit in the unrefueled range of the aircraft of the period there's not much need for carriers.) WWII had most of that, though, but really the Spanish Civil War heralded the rise of airpower. But the signs were there in WWI. Of course WWI was heralded by the Russo-Japanese War and the American Civil War, indeed one could claim that all naval vessels larger than torpedo boats and all tanks except maybe the turretless WWI examples descend from USS Monitor. Of course the Napoleonic Wars serve as prequel to the American Civil War (and the Franco-Prussian War which heralded the future in a political rather than tactical sense) with the rise of cavalry. They were heralded by the American Revolution which was France seizing an opportunity for revenge after the Seven Years War made colonial proxy warfare the new thing. That traces back to the Westphalian concept of sovereignty established after the 30 Years War. On the naval side of things the trend setter for most of the Age of Sail was the First Anglo-Dutch War which codified the Line of Battle. That of course had evolved over several conflicts back to the War of the League of Cambrai where broadside armed sailing vessels got their trial by fire. I think. Back on land the Hundred Years War is as good a place as any to pin the start of army professionalization in post-Roman Europe and of substantial gunpowder use. Desert Storm is more of a dead end really, a throwback to conventional war after Vietnam and the Soviet-Afgan War heralded the rise of asymmetric warfare. Which was heralded by WWII and the Chinese Civil War, which was heralded by the Russian Civil War, which was heralded by the Iberian campaign in the Napoleonic Wars, which was heralded by the American Revolution, which was heralded by the use of Indian proxies on the American front in the Seven Years War.

@@nathanbrown8680 he was referencing the name of another Sabaton song and you just gave him a lesson on the concept of advancements in warfare

@@nathanbrown8680 TL;DR: *This is Modern War*

War.... has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines.War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine.War has changed.ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities.Genetic control, information control, emotion control, battlefield control…everything is monitored and kept under control.War…has changed.The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction, and he who controls the battlefield, controls history.War…has changed.When the battlefield is under total control, war becomes routine. Nanomachines Son!

@@nathanbrown8680 damn bro they should hire you here

Pretty much always happens with me lol

You: *has a bunch of resources and troops* oh boy, here I go conquering again

Not to be rude, but how do you know that? I mean the guy is an actual historian and I’m pretty sure he was was alive during the war so I trust his words.

@@lukebishop7288 And I, and he, were *living* and viewed this war *real-time*; so yes, our words *are* primary source material.

@@chissstardestroyer ok thanks for letting me know, but id still like a source material to confirm it for me if it’s not that much trouble, you know like an article or a first hand account by a soldier. You don’t have to but I’d still like evidence.

@@lukebishop7288 Well, off the top of my head; an excellent source to research is "Operation Desert Shield" for the research on what preceded Operation Desert Storm. I remember it personally- course I was in grammar school at the time, but every single USA citizen who was alive in those days was privy to the whole first-hand depictions- the reporters were watching the war on a daily basis.

@@chissstardestroyer ok thanks, I’ll check it out!

Mechanic AND pilot? Never had to fix a plane? Cool story bro.

@@garystefanski7227 it is a cool story indeed.

They should cover Sea Shanty 2.

They did its called bismarck

Only if they do a collab with Alestorm.

So!

@@ledwin8770 So?

tell your brother I said thank you for making my country free and safe again

@@a3doom i will

Fellow Alaskan I hope your brother made it out there safe

+1, -1, i wanna see the great war songs' backstories

They should totally make a song about Genghis Khan featuring Mongolian throat singing!

@@Triflame. Agreed! was awesome

Rise of Evil, Into the Fire, and Panzer Battallion would be great

Something Genghis Khan themed with Mongolian throat singing.

It was great watching those T72s pop like soda cans.

No, but soon

@@SabatonHistory damn

DEATH IN THE SHAPE OF A PANZER BATTALION

@@engie3953 HANDSOME ITALIAN!

@@SabatonHistory I really need the Night Witches or 7 Pillars of Wisdom!

Then you should play this video often! 😉

Thanks a lot for your comment! Cheers!

i like this idea.

It's today's, short attention food, that Roger Waters pioneered with his Requium For War, The Final Cut 1984. And again many thanks.

i still love that the guy's name was Schlitz. who says history can't be fun?

Yodelling? But the Swiss try to keep out of wars. I suppose a Sabaton song about the Sticklikreig might be fun. True patrician taste demands a song (or preferably an entire concept album) about the War of the Oaken Bucket.

I was born 2 months after the start of the 2nd gulf war

As far as I know, Vietnam was the first war where war actually brought to everyone's TV

Pretty sure Vietnam was at least partly televised. Before my time though.

i could give yodeling lessons. if interested, form an orderly orderly orderly orderly queue

That interesting

Well, their enemy hardly had a chance to react once the ground war started. When your enemy doesn't do anything (or much in this case) to disrupt your plans, they can actually survive contact with the enemy. It's bizarre to think of I know, but that seems to be what happened. Once air supremacy was enacted, every hope of any kind of counter move by the Iraqi military basically died. It's basically a heroic miracle they managed to hold long enough for the Republican Guard to withdraw across the border rather than been encircled. It's also kind of fascinating to consider that if they had just surrendered and the allied forces overran and cornered the Republican Guard (Who we know from later conflict would fight to the last man despite being just as terribly outclassed and outnumbered) how that would have changed things to come. Without the Republican Guard to keep him in power, Iraq would likely have collapsed into a civil war. (And who knows who if anyone would have come out on top in that.) Without so close to a bloodless victory by the allies, it might have been a more stunning victory. We know from their historical destruction the Republican Guard really were fanatical enough to have made it a brutal affair, if only because they would stand and be killed to the last. Even if the allies surrounded them and then reduced them to flinders with artillery and air power before mopping up with infantry and helicopter supported infantry, it would have been seen around the world just how hard the Republican Guard had fought. The lessons from Desert Storm informed a lot of US military development, changes to it would change their lessons and priorities. The impact on the region wouldn't change much, it would still have been a grim reminder that there are simply nations out there you CAN NOT fight against militarily. (at least in 'conventional' warfare.) You can bet everyone in the region rested a lot less easily if they were not friends with the UN and allied forces, since Iraq was a major regional power that in a couple of weeks (mere days of ground fighting) was nearly annihilated and only stood because the allied forces didn't pursue to end them.

🤣 perfection!!! while you have 100 to 1 army size and total air superiority summed up from major countries against a single third world country with no support.

@@m00nch11d right, but I don’t know if you’re aware how the 2003 invasion of Iraq went, but that wasn’t exactly well done. Just because there’s no chance of actually losing the war doesn’t mean you’re definitely going to do as well as they did in Desert Storm.

@@m00nch11d It's not like iraq would've fared better on a war against the united states anyways. continue coping

Lavrentivs still beat

That is a really good idea. Maybe silent night in metal and different languages when they do it in relation to the Christmas truce.

Omg I need this

Oh my god yes! Please sabaton do this!

Santaton is needed

@@durinderunsterbliche6472 Manowar did a cover of Silent Night.

Vic does gaming Mayday! We have 4 dislikes now!

That's a very interesting proposal

Not exactly - Panzer Battalion is about the 2003 Iraq War and there are some other contemporary songs as well. But this is the most recent thing we covered on this channel up until now.

@@SabatonHistory Ah, I misunderstood then. But Panzer Battalion will show up and at the time, I was a young child. So I heard bits of it but wasn't really getting it.

@Col. Commissar Ibram Gaunt Indeed. But well, they're one thing and that is neutral. As for the whole controversial, yeah, gotta agree. ISIS didn't even exist when the song was made.

@@kerlongsjorlejov1945 There's also "We burn" but that was during the Bosnian War

They kinda have with Cliffs of Gallipoli, some of the lyrics are based on his speech at the end of the war.

@Gaius Octavius oh absolutely he did, which is horrifying. He also kick started what was essentially a cultural genoicde of the Kurds. To be fair The Balkan nations and Russia also committed genoicde against their Muslim populations pushing them downward to the ottoman empire during that period, the exception being Bosnia and Albania. Today is a common cope turks use when greek/Armenian/Assyrian genoicde is mentioned. Justifying that "well look if they did it we are also legally allowed to do it" which is just??? I honestly think it's dumb instead we should all be aware of why such genoicdes took place to never allow them again, with all respect to the victims we are not the victims.

Thanks a lot Bexora! We truly appreciate you coming here every week for the videos. Metal Disco I would like to see as well ;) 🤘

A song about the Famine and the great migration would be a shift from pure military history but changed the world and spread the English language throughout the globe.

They should make a song about the troubles, it would make an excellent topic for both a song and a sabaton history video as well as sticking to the military theme

@@thomasmcfaul875 they could cover "My Little Armalite," or "Come Out Ye Black and Tans."

@@TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuchBlack And Tans is one of my favourite songs of all time

A song about Jadotville wouldn't go amiss

I was thinking the same. I think there is a Swedish variety of bagpipe instrument, as well. Could add some Sami throat singing/chanting, too.

@@julieshank2885 Well adding sami jojk would be like adding (american) indian music to rock.

Ey !!! my greatest respekt for you !!! Are you okay? Liebe grüsse Alex🤘

Not exactly, British Challengers did heavy work against Iraqi tanks, and British Tornado Jets flew the most dangerous missions, low level bombing of Iraqi airstrips. I can't say much about the other Allies though unfortunately

There’s always Iced Earth

Sabadjent

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Caleb R No?

Bit simplified isnt it? 20/20 hindsight too. In the 80s hussein did seem The more reasonable choice.

Caleb R Stabilize Economy = invading neighboring country.

@@MrWildcat28 I didn't say it was a good thing.

Yeah, that would indeed be something out of the ordinary.