Why did Japan surrender? We were dropping atomic bombs on them. My uncle fought in that pacific theater like millions of Americans. He always stated that our casualty rate would have been extremely high, should we invade the homeland. I think a magazine published the 1946 battle plans called “operation Olympic” and stated as such.

We glorify a war we lost.

24:32 21,000 missing is even scarier than dead in most cases

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An emperor will be born in italy He will cost his empirie very dearly they will say he is least prince than butcher - Nostradamus vision of Napoleon

Russia lost in Kursk in the end😢

This documentary was longer than the ground war

Ah, "the old Schlieffen plan"... where have I heard that before?

My grandfather was at the battle of the bulge but he'd never really talk about the war.

Vietnamese will never forget this war, although they won.

Don’t forget: the Korean War never ended. It is still ongoing.

Newsflash: The Iranian Revolution was at its heart a rejection of Western democratic ideas, especially the emancipation of women. Portraying the Shah as a brutal dictator is mostly misguided. He was in fact a modernizing moderate. That's why the clerics deposed him. You're welcome.

I am an Iranian and stand by Shah. Stop your communist woke history version on simple minded Western people.

Regarding the Gulf War Syndrome: I had a friend come down with what presents as GWS, except he never served. It was really bad. He had constant nerve pain in his arms and legs, he would have convulsions, etc. What is interesting is that he can pinpoint where it started. He had an ear infection, and traditional antibiotics didn't work. So he took Cipro. Thats when it all started. What does this have to do with the Gulf War? All the soldiers going overseas were treated with Cipro as a prophylactic! There are some really strong ties between this drug and GWS. I'm surprised we don't hear more. You should do a documentary on that.

There was no winner or losers in Vietnam. The United States gained invaluable military experience and learned how to wage long term war with minimal casualties. The Soviet Union was strained financially by the cost of funding the North and the war drove a large wedge between China and Russia. North Vietnam achieved their ultimate objective but at a very high cost, one that took several decades to recover from. In the end capitalism made its way to Vietnam regardless of the outcome even if the government is communist still. If you have to choose a winner in the war between the North and the US then you have to choose the North but in the big picture of the global tensions that resulted in the war being what it was. The US is the winner. Could the US have won the war absolutely but it was never gonna get the support at home people were tired of war three decades of drafts was too much. The US fought the North virtually hogtied by rules of engagement and political strife at home. Same thing that keeps us from “winning” wars today.

America and Isreal are the 2 biggest terrorist states in the world today

Regime changes, propaganda and such are fascinating things to me. Thank you for the video!

only communist party can save China because all.the other pathways failed

Poor RuZZia... always the victim (NOT).

UN did not have any need or want to cross Chinese border, but Chinese would knock on DC and London's door if they had the chance.

I feel like if the UN forces brought their entire force, we could win it. UN just underestimated too much.

They lost in one Word...Enigma.....

History repeats itself first by tragedy second by farce

War is terrible

Do the Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians have a better life under totalitarian regimes than they would have under French rule? Or do many of them prefer to migrate to Western countries, especially France, the United States and the United Kingdom? It's one thing being a communist who wages a war and wins it, it's another thing defeating an opponent who was a far more benign administrator of the the country you proceeded to ruin with forced collectivization and re-education camps.

I'm not really sure how American back then ended up suddenly in Vietnam War since watching the Narrative from drama "Nam, Tour Of Duty" in 90s and MIA really too one sided (of course I'm 8 years old lol!). But what I do really know that the 1st Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) against Communist from the North, then Indonesian Confrontation, 1963-66 against Communist from the South and finally Second Malayan Emergency (1968-1989) Successfully suppressed enough to make Malaysia known as the only country that managed to defeat the historical legend of guerrilla warfare tactics. It really affected America Leaders like added more salts into deep wounds after having huge 500k troops mbut during Tet Offensive 1968 ended up with Military Lost to Viet Cong but a huge loss for the US become a turning point to Public's support change into against it if I'm not mistaken.

And you wanna know how I know this is Chinese propaganda. I’m 80% through this video and you haven’t once mentioned the Chinese death toll. 😂😂 like are you kidding me bro? Are you making your money off of Chinese subscribers or something. Chinese estimate 180k they lost: that’s the low end their estimate. We estimated 400k which I’m sure is high. Truth is usually in the middle. We lost 36k…..it kind of reframes your narrative a little bit. Also I’d love to hear where you went to graduate school for history.

You answered your title question in the first 30 seconds: Losses be damned, the Soviets fought an attritional war they knew they could win

The name of Red Army Commander on the photo at 8:42 is wrong, it shold be Zhu De (head of Red Army) instead of Zhou EnLai.

When France pulled out of Vietnam they warned the US not to get involved in the war.They chose not to listen. How did that work out for the US and at what cost?

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WAR,,WAR,,, What's it for,,,Feeds the Rich and buries the Poor,,,

Richard B. Frank's book “Tower of Skulls” quoted plenty of unsubstantiated falsehoods stated by communists. He has gone from military historian to fiction writer. The destruction of the city of Nanjing had been carried out by the Chinese military even before the appearance of Japanese troops in Nanjing, and by December, when the Japanese troops arrived in Nanjing, there were no more than 200,000 citizens of Nanjing. After the Japanese troops drove the Chinese troops, who repeatedly committed criminal acts, out of the city of Nanjing, the citizens began to return home the following month, and the number of Nanjing citizens recovered to 260,000 and to 290,000 in March. If the Japanese military had treated civilians as brutally as the current Chinese government claims, the return of Nanking citizens would not have occurred.

Among many other battles, my great grandpa was part of the relief force at bastogne. Proud of him!

Yet another American propaganda piece

Wonder if when Ho Chi Minh contacted USA for help and was helped, if history would be totally different

Nichts neues, ungenügend. Klick Köder vom schlechtesten.

You know, even though that initial landing had basically less than one percent casualty rate just imagine being one of the people that die on that initial low resistance landing. That’s still your whole life being cut short while the rest of the huge landing force survives. we get so used to the casualty statistics being just numbers, but these are men that lived and died, lives cut short. For the leaders of the armies that’s just a number, a statistic to calculate strategy, but for you that’s your whole life your whole being entering the great void

中国参战是因为美国的飞机越过鸭绿江炸到中国人民，每天威胁恐吓中国，先进入朝鲜的士兵从中国南方出发，还穿着单衣单裤，零下40度土豆硬的崩牙，我们后勤保障也不行，经常被轰炸，战士白天趴在雪地里躲飞机，晚上急行军，在大雪覆盖的山里，出现了14个小时行军72公里的壮举，比美军机械化部队早到5分钟，实现了围堵，美军飞机大炮，打阻击战你们把山都削平了几米，战士要打战又要修工事，不眠不休，也没水没吃的，后勤部队死了很多人就送上去一个苹果，一人一口，还是阻击你们美军多次进攻，你这个纪录片说的还是太保全美国脸面了，我们两个连士兵围追堵截，因为天气太冷，被冻成冰雕了，包围圈有了缺口，要不然美陆军第一师都跑不了，中国人受过很多苦难，刚建国，家家户户都分到了土地，刚过上好日子，中国士兵参战都是保家卫国，不存在俘虏不想回国，为了埋伏不被发现，全身被火烧焦，未动一下，为了占领碉堡，自己身体堵住碉堡机关枪枪眼，人内脏都打空了，中国军人就是凭保家卫国的信仰坚持，他们怎么可能不想回国，你们还是不太了解中国文化，失败主要还是你们将领太傲慢，对中国人的一无所知，瞧不起中国小米加步枪

The brutality, all for what? History

My Grandfather's volunteering as Swedish with My mother 7 year and her sister 3 years. He joined the Finish Cavalry as horse man. Now I understand why. My cousin check his heritage and he is direct from Sami. ( North Swedish and Finnish indigenous people ) "as Our North American Indians" Nevertheless he came back and made another 4 kids..Some of My cousins looks like Eskimos, they got his Eyes.. I would do the same. Finland is a very great country and the people are the best fighters in the world.. They also build the Swedish Industry what we have today in the 50 and 60thies.

As an armchair general and historian, this is what I think. The unconditional surrender declaration is to ensure that no allied participant would make a double-deal with the axis powers, or try to make a separate peace, and to make sure that the war effort is seen to its completion. Germany in 1943 couldn't strike Britain and the US, wouldn't make any decisive outcome in Italy or Africa, and its military was heavily concentrated on the Eastern Front. Its only option was to decisively create a major blow to the Soviet Union that Stalin would be compelled to make peace. The Kursk offensive was in the end a mistake because Germany attacked well-prepared defensive positions. Hitler was to blame, because of his fixation of victory on the offensive, instead of defeating the enemy on the defensive. He wouldn't learn and would do it again in the Ardennes offensive, but by that time it's already either capitulation or lunacy.

Tướng giáp hiểu rõ sức mạnh pháo binh pháp Chỉ là pháp đang bị chủ quan và đánh giá thấp giáp

It's a Crime ! No, It's a Crimea !

israel until now is the best country

毛泽东要求斯大林撤出驻中国大连的海军基地，归还中国铁路，　斯大林私下同意金日成的计划，目的就是让中国不得不接受苏联的驻军

So much information and not a word about Pervitin? Please reedit this one so people understand how they could just role there tanks for days without a break 🤨

This is perhaps the most accurate depiction of the Winter War.

Shout out to those Ozzies they sound like incredible combatants

This was excellent..clear,concise, informative