10 Military Plans Everyone Called Insane... That Changed History Forever
What happens when a commander does the one thing nobody expects? In this video, we walk through 10 military plans that everyone called suicidal at the time — but ended up becoming some of the most decisive victories in human history. From Hannibal leading war elephants over the Alps in winter, Alexander the Great charging directly into the heart of the Persian army, George Washington crossing an ice-filled river on Christmas night, all the way to General Vo Nguyen Giap hauling artillery through mountain jungles in a move the French refused to believe was even possible. Every story is a lesson in what happens when someone sees clearly what others refuse to look at. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Introduction 00:57 — Hannibal and the war elephants over the Alps 08:00 — Alexander the Great at Gaugamela 16:20 — George Washington crosses the Delaware 27:43 — D-Day: The Normandy Landings 39:05 — Vo Nguyen Giap and Dien Bien Phu 53:01 — Genghis Khan: The fake retreat 01:01:27 — Battle of Agincourt: Stand still and wait 01:12:12 — The Six-Day War: Strike first 01:24:04 — Battle of Midway: All or nothing 01:36:21 — Operation Fortitude: Fooling Hitler himself ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IF YOU ENJOYED THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Like if any of these stories made you stop and think 🔔 Subscribe for more stories from history that actually teach you something 💬 Comment: Which plan surprised you the most? #militaryhistory #ancienthistory #worldwar2 #hannibal #alexanderthegreat #dday #normandy #battleofmidway #gengiskhan #dienbienphú #operationfortitude #sixdaywar #historyfacts #warhistory #historystories
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