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- kd420, on 04/10/2009, -1/+91Finland in the Winter War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
- jakash, on 04/10/2009, -4/+80Bury me, but what about Vietnam?
- xOKxWhy, on 04/10/2009, -0/+43The Knights Hospitaller armor is so ridiculously badass
- eyepatch100, on 04/10/2009, -5/+47Sweet, a Cracked article on Digg! My friends are never going to believe this!
- FJRRulz, on 04/10/2009, -2/+37Ummm...Sparta?
- Vaasman, on 04/10/2009, -3/+34I assume it was left off because despite winning, the Vietcong had far more casualties than the American force. The rest of the list included a much smaller force sustaining very few casualties while dominating the opposing nation.
- tushyd, on 04/10/2009, -1/+30How about those pesky Rebels that took down 2 Deathstars?
- drstock, on 04/10/2009, -2/+29Afghanistan held their own pretty well against Soviet in the 80s. Sure, the US was there providing missiles and training to the Mujahideen but the Afghans did the actual fighting themselves.
- Bic823, on 04/10/2009, -1/+28Simo Hayha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha - Akairenn, on 04/10/2009, -2/+28You mean the one where we:
a) Failed to seize Canada
b) Had our capital burnt to the ground
c) Failed to do anything about the Royal Navy
d) Got off easy because England had bigger fish to fry
?
1812 was a freaking disaster. I'm surprised, however, the revolution wasn't on that list. Then again, I suppose we didn't count as a tiny nation even then, at least by land mass. - norman619, on 04/10/2009, -14/+36They forgot the more modern example of Israel vs 3 neighboring arab countries. Tiny Israel totally kicked their collective asses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War - Scrappy1850, on 04/10/2009, -0/+22i get mine from a shaker
- divinediva, on 04/10/2009, -0/+22So Incredibly Bad ass.
- SocialPoison, on 04/10/2009, -0/+20They probably skipped that one because anyone who saw 300 and cared already looked that up on wikipedia.
- mwalker05, on 04/10/2009, -3/+22it also helped that Rambo was on their side
- Scrappy1850, on 04/10/2009, -2/+20scandinavia
- m3arvk, on 04/10/2009, -3/+21Israel's 6 day war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
- Shabrainiac, on 04/10/2009, -0/+17@drstock
Eygpt had begun massing soldiers and tanks on Israels boarder in preparation for war so Israel preemptively struck them. - BIGHED, on 04/10/2009, -0/+16I'm going with Petoria on this one
- FatBurger, on 04/10/2009, -0/+13Pepper comes from mines now?
- Akairenn, on 04/10/2009, -0/+13I realize you're trying to be smarmy, but we continually got our asses handed to us until some crazy Frenchman taught us to stand in line and take turns shooting at each other.
Lern2musket: If you're one man standing a hundred yards away from your target, armed with a musket, you aren't hitting *****. Massed fire was the only realistic way of inflicting any sort of reasonable amount of damage to your opponent.
Bonus tidbit: That is, however, why the Civil War was so hideous. Commanders on both sides failed to lern2rifle. - norman619, on 04/10/2009, -10/+21Nice revisionist view of history you got there.
Let me guess... SCREW THE EVIL JOOS?! - Pilot85, on 04/10/2009, -0/+10That made me scratch my head for moment. Then I went into my kitchen to stare hard at some peppercorns.
- phillykid162, on 04/10/2009, -1/+11I went to the article and was like WTF no Finland? Digg users rule
- CaptainCanuk, on 04/10/2009, -0/+10North Vietnam held their own pretty well against the Americans in the 60-70s. Sure, the USSR was providing missiles and training to the Communists but the Vietnamese did the actual fighting themselves.
- slugpellet63, on 04/10/2009, -6/+16Empire was and is about access to and control of raw materials and markets.
If you are not sure where the American empire is or has been located just ask a native from Cuba and other Caribbean states, any central American state, Hawai, The Philipines, Iraq, Saudi Arabia or your own native peoples.
Today's empire is based on control of WTO rules.
An example of America's protection of its empire; when the EU continued to allow preferential tariffs, for former Caribbean colonies of some of its member states, for the importation of bananas (thereby helping a number of very small and poor countries who may otherwise turn into failed states and grow other herbal cash crops on the USA's doorstep - is that what America wants?), America punished Europe by imposing swinging tariffs on unrelated items such as cashmere sweaters (thereby ***** one struggling industry in the Scottish borders). The number of bananas grown in the USA = zero, however American "interests" (Dole & Chiquita - the companies that gave the world the term "banana republic") had to be protected. - norman619, on 04/10/2009, -1/+10The colonialists tought them how to fight a war properly. None of this standing in clear view and taking turns shooting at each other. WTF was that?!
- slugpellet63, on 04/10/2009, -1/+10France, USA and China - seriously badass!
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+8Teach the British to wear red coats...
- Lawlmuffin, on 04/10/2009, -1/+9Don't ***** with Finland.
- gasoline, on 04/10/2009, -2/+9Where's Finland?
- DarkKnight5590, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6Dugg for mentioning Age of Empires.
I still play it now with some friends.
Wolololo. - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -1/+7Cracked alright did a small spiel about them when it talked about Simo Hayha in their badass soldiers article.
- wadd, on 04/10/2009, -0/+6What?? No mention of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
- Akairenn, on 04/10/2009, -3/+9I'm not sure why you're being buried, seeing as you're a) correct and b) have a well thought out post.
As I've stated before, Americans refuse to believe in our Empire because we lack snappy uniforms, Ministries of Stuff, cool military parades and all the other "fun" trappings of Imperialism. Economic Imperialism just doesn't seem "real"; there's no bitchin' symbol you can point at and go, "Long live the Empire!"
Oh, and alanocu: Wars of conquest? Where do you think we got Texas, California, and pretty much everything west of the Mississippi from? - SpoonMSU, on 04/10/2009, -1/+6Sparta?
THIS... IS... MADNESS!!! - edrodgers731, on 04/10/2009, -1/+6Yeah, nobody wants to call Hitler and his army a badass because it isn't PC, but taking WWI into account, they were pretty badass for the second war. From economic and military collapse to the boss of Europe in just a decade?
We hate him for being such a badass. - Nardrino, on 04/10/2009, -1/+6That tattoo is pretty awesome
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -1/+6holy *****...its all on one page!....awsome
- Akairenn, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5@fadetoone: We got ripped off. ;) We may have purchased the official legalese, but we still had to deal with some rather irritated native tribes.
- hakkola, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Don't know why people are digging you down. Coming from a Finn, this is correct. We're nordic, but technically not Scandinavian.
- chuckDontSurf, on 04/10/2009, -2/+7"We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!"
- foofightrs777, on 04/10/2009, -1/+6Hai guise we totally would exploded Vietnam wit nukes so they cudn't be commies but tha damn hippies said no!
So wait, you just admitted that the military was beaten by a bunch of hippies? No wonder we lost in Vietnam. - golgotha, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Technically, it's not in Scandinavia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5I think he was talking about Canada being the underdog.
- inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5True that. Napoleon was England's big fear at that time. If there was just a war of the US versus England at that time... it wouldn't have gone well let's just leave it at that.
- foofightrs777, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5I do believe they were actually called Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội. Seriously, don't piss them off unless you want to end up with a punji pit in your bedroom and a trip-wire on your front door.
- Vortex5, on 04/10/2009, -3/+8Except it's a horrible list! 4 of the 6 aren't NATIONS! They are small rebel groups or clans. They are also forgetting the Arab-Israeli War of 48'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Isr ...
Israel decisively beat 8 Arab countries when it was surrounded on all fronts. They also left out the Spartans defeating the Persians and tons of other real underdog nations. - inactive, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Yea, let us not forget that Boers lost.. wouldn't admit defeat.. even after losing...so the British invented concentration camps interned all the farmers who were supplying them..and started a scorched earth policy having learned from the American Revolution.. oh and the other reason the British went to war with the Boers is that the Afrikaners (the loverly people who invented apartheid by the way) would not get the ***** on with the Africans.. and insisted on fighting with them like spoilt children until a bigger bully came along ( the British) and took away both their toys. Oh and the Dutch told the Boers to go ***** themselves for trying to get them involved in the war... but hey who bother researching facts when writing stuff on the internet. Oh and one last thing.. the Boers afterwards hated the British.. but were totally freaked out by how insane they were when fighting to have the balls to march into battle old skool style while knowing they would lose because of their retarded tactics.. because at the end of the day the British while having the veneer of being civilised were and still are one of the most insane bunch of ***** to ever grace this planet... but most people find out this fact after they have pushed them too far.. ha ha
- mysmartypants, on 04/10/2009, -0/+5Agincourt lead by Henry the V isn't in here?!? 100 casualties on the English side vs. 10,000 casualties on the French side.
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