Worst Strategic Moves Made By The Axis During WWII

purplepizza117 · 2016-04-11T22:56:24.000Z

Following my Allied failures, I have created this one as well for the Axis Powers. My personal choice: Operation Barbarossa! This is clear in hindsight, but not so much during 1940 and 1941. Still, Hitler made a catastrophic mistake when he ignored some of the intelligence his soldiers picked up and the knowledge of Soviet defects regarding the size of the Russian army. Despite this intelligence, Hitler invaded and was largely defeated by the Soviets come 1943.

12 Apr 2016, 14:59

Italy's invasion of Greece.

"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.
"Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.

12 Apr 2016, 15:38

Barbarossa. Even if Germany had taken Moscow, they had thousands of kilometres until the other end.

The past is a foreign country.

12 Apr 2016, 15:41

Pablo22510 wrote:
Even if Germany had taken Moscow, they had thousands of kilometres until the other end.

Correct.

"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.
"Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.

12 Apr 2016, 16:04

Barbarossa, the USSR was a land of war for hundreds of years.

18 Jun 2016, 21:13

Voted.

"I came, I saw, I conquered" Written in a report to Rome 47 B.C., after conquering Pharnaces at Zela in Asia Minor in just five days; as quoted in Life of Caesar by Plutarch; reported to have been inscribed on one of the decorated wagons in the Pontic triumph, in Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Julius, by Suetonius.
"Alea iacta est" Gaius Julius Caesar.

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