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Early during the US War in Vietnam, incompetent American advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), who is also incompetent, get incredibly mad as they attempt to get them to fight the Viet Cong, despite the fact the Americans never bothered to tell the ARVN about the battle plan, and every ARVN commander on the ground has to ask for permission to do any command position in a game of telephone that goes all of the way up to the President of South Vietnam.

Sources:

David Elliot. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975

David Halberstam. The Making of a Quagmire: American and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era.

Neil Sheehan. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/educational-services/staff-rides/VSR/Ap-Bac-Vietnam/Material/Ap-Bac%20Preliminary%20Study%20Guide%20V1.0.pdf

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-at-ap-bac-changed-americas-view-of-the-vietnam-war/

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In the opening stages of WWI, an Army of 40 year old reservists from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, armed with decades-old weapons and no food, and largely unable to even speak to one another, attempt to hold off the Russian Imperial Army in what became known as "Austria-Hungary's Stalingrad"

Sources:

Graydon Tunstall. Written in Blood: The Battles For Fortress Przemysl in WWI.

Dr. Alexander Watson. The Fortress: The Siege of Przemsysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands.

Christopher Miskimon. The Siege of Przemysl. Military Heritage. Jan 2016. Volume 17, No 4.

The conclusion to our series on the Texas Revolution!

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The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.

Sources:

Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Randolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865

Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad.

Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850