Why This Was Britain's Worst Military Disaster Ever | INTEL

[@BFBSCreative]

This video is a re-upload. That's because we've moved to this new channel! More content like this is coming very soon - 30/4/2020.

[@markieman64]

Powerful telling of the story. Wow.

[@johntaylor963]

The pain is still so raw. Some of us still care 🇬🇧.

[@rjt6954]

Great episode, brilliant new channel. Have subscribed!

[@KINGCRANK.Topsy-Turvy]

So in September, I visited Singapore from Japan, then as a history buff, roughly knew what happened in Singapore over history. The museum I visited was filled with hostility against Japan depicting Japan VS Britain. I understood it ,but the way of describing it was kinda way gruesome. It's clearly different from museum in Hiroshima. I also saw a tall tower was being built saying "Memorial of independence from Japan" . I felt a little uneasy to stay there...They still begrudge hostility probably.

[@DarqeDestroyer]

I'm pretty sure the retreat from Kabul in 1842 would be Britain's worst military disaster ever. 15,999 out of 16,000 killed.

[@rabirai1003]

Way to go BFBS. Creative story telling.

[@oli133]

Excellent video well done guys.. please make more!!

[@den-iq1cv]

I can understand how British decided to defend Southern sea at first. but when they lost Malay and yet fail to focus on north?. in this island troops can march for half a day and be anywhere in the island

[@doenjangstew4438]

This is about 70 years from now. However, 70 years ago, the Japanese Empire had been studying the British Empire for 70 years. The Japanese Empire is the people who studied for 70 years how Japan would take the colonies occupied by Europe. The Japanese Empire imitated the British Empire almost every way. Even the Japanese emperor system was created in imitation of the British royal family. The Japanese Emperor is people who had lived in Kyoto not Tokyo for thousands of years without any army. They were originally fortune tellers not royal family. The Japanese Empire even imitated the diet of the British Navy. Japanese curry rice is a food that imitated the diet of the British Navy. This is not the disaster of the British military, but the disaster of the British politicians. They didn't know who Japanese is and even more who Chinese is.

[@samuelweston2436]

F in the chat lads for the empire

[@AugustKling]

The result of degeneration. It is always a painfull time to look at a gaga reality without any hope.

[@geoffreywatson9798]

This is a superficial and simplistic narration of the real facts. The human story is moving however.

[@aswinradhakrishnan1547]

You didn't even talked about the indian soldiers who fought for an empire quarter of the fighting men were indian

[@yahhoo69]

Of course. It's a English channel, narrated by white. Of course they're only focusing on "British" British soldiers only

[@adamatch9624]

MrLight no nothing to do with him being white it is just the Channel is about British military

[@yahhoo69]

@@adamatch9624 Jokes aside, there are alot of non-british soldiers died, especially the Malay Regiment. What I wanna say is, every media have their own narrative.

[@yahhoo69]

@@adamatch9624 Depends on the audience. If you just focused on the british soldiers, don't bother about others. It's called logic

[@wrightypegz8997]

Yes they did? They mentioned that Indian troops were fighting there as part of the British force at 2:51 and on the map at 4:55 it shows Indian positions.

[@jameslewis2635]

It is hard to believe that the commander in charge was so incompetant that he surrendered to an inferior force.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

Surrender was better than having City turning into a bloodbath.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

@Nub93 Stalin has that blood on his hands.

[@eastcoastsailingcenter7768]

I thank him for surrendering .

[@sohomchatterjee]

Conquest on bicycle

[@catlee8064]

I think spending £7 billion on 2 useless aircraft carriers is a close second....

[@fivenine5905]

closer to 8 and money well spent. :D

[@ejc8858]

Evidently don't know much about deterrents... Britain is still one of only a hand full of countries that can project it's forces worldwide. What makes you think they're useless? They're a fine bit of modern engineering.

[@catlee8064]

@@ejc8858 Have you kept up with the disasters that are our carriers? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53186611 Project its forces world wide? With 87k personnel in the Army... When a soviet sub flotilla was detected off the north coast...what did we send...a mine sweeper, www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15914167.dorsets-adopted-warship-hms-cattistock-sent-to-intercept-russian-submarines/ The only deterrent we have is our nuclear subs, which are coming to the end of their life span, we should of spent money on them instead of the carriers.

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

@@catlee8064 The UK gets what it votes for. And Defense is low on that priority.

[@ejc8858]

@@catlee8064 You'd be a fool indeed if you thought media knew anything about what goes on. Look at the defence budget of the UK, are you going to tell me that you know exactly where that extortionate amount of money is going, behave... Joe public doesn't know anything. Besides, the main weapon of any country is the element of surprise, why would we broadcast our true power to the world and become predictable like a third world country... As for the nuclear subs... We have the most modern navy in the world, and the Trafalgar nuclear armed subs are being replaced, so what are you babbling on about?

[@sjdover69]

I read a long detailed account of the fall of Singapore. The author blamed it squarely on the ill disciple of the Australian defence force. Happy to hear other opinions if based on fact.

[@campfiresnlasguns]

Here in Singapore, we don't blame the soldiers actually. We blame the overall British Command and its overconfidence. Especially General Arthur Percival. To us, we deem every Allied soldier to have done their best but alas, Percival was bluffed by Japanese general Yamashita into surrendering.

[@masterofpuppets7295]

I've heard many accounts of the fall of singapore and not once have i heard it was down to ill discipline from the Australians. That book sounds like a complete load of fabricated shit. The general consensus was that leadership was piss poor from high command and the fact that the sea and air defences were woefully inadequate due too the british being more worried about europe