The Stupidest War in History?

[Icamera]

Coming off the heels of the Iraq occupation, I'd say now seems like a good time to discuss the stupidity of war, or rather: wars that were stupid.

I'm taking the easy way out and going with Vietnam. I mean, Iraq was bad enough, but with Vietnam, we're talking about twice the length. Throw in the bureaucracy, government deceptions, (seriously, writing a resolution and then just filling in the blanks with "Gulf of Tonkin"?) and poor military strategy and you've got the perfect recipe for a twenty-year debacle.

And...begin!

[Volnotova]

WWI stands high in my list.

[Metanih]

Children's Crusade was pretty stupid.

[Caninope]

While Vietnam makes no sense from a pragmatic view, it made some sense (ideologically) for Eisenhower, Kennedy, and LBJ.

I'm going to say WWI, or the Football War.

[Premislyd]

Probably one of the Netherlands wars with Louis XIV

[Reichsadler]

I'd say the WW1 too. And it also changed the whole course of history as well. Up until now, more or less.

[Kuwat]

1.Iraq
2.afghanistan
3.Vietnam

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

id say the cold war but there was no fighting,so id go with WW2 becouse i dont think america really had any reason to invade europe as hitler declared war on america as part of his pact with japan.

[Great Malema]

WWI and the Anglo-Zanzibar War.

[Stalinleninmao]

WW1 is the number one.

[Soviet Canuckistan]

korean, that one got nowhere besides a weird regime using north korea.

[Shrillland]

The Spanish-American War was the stupidest. The casus belli was iffy, the war was basically engineered by Hearst, and it was nothing more that the first American war for Empire.

[Malaysii]

Absolute Fact: World War One.
Debateable: The Childrens Crusade in 1212. Not sure this was real, but its ridiculous.

[Astrolinium]

The Football War

[Genivaria]

I'm sure this article would be helpful.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17123_th ... ought.html

[Matthew VonWindhelm]

Children's Crusade was pretty EXTRORDINARILY stupid.

[Icamera]

The Football War

Speaking of Latin American wars...

[Caninope]

1.Iraq
2.afghanistan
3.Vietnam

Please, Afghanistan had a casus belli, Vietnam had ideological basis, and there have been far stupider wars. Period.

[Saurisisia]

WWI definitely takes the case and the saddest thing was is that it was inevitable at the time.

[Terracotta]

Children's Crusade was pretty stupid.

This.

[Sidhae]

Definitely WWI. If WWII was a battle of ideologies for world supremacy, the proxy wars of Cold War era were a continuum of that battle, and the recent petty wars in the Middle East just poorly-disguised attempts of plundering Third World nations of their resources and removing undesirable company from vicinity of Israel, then WWI was basically what became when the trigger-happy populations of jingoistic colonial empires decided they hadn't seen a real war for a century and it was time to start one again just to measure who's got the biggest dick. Likewise, no other war is so full of examples of astonishing stupidity, such as soldiers on both sides marching in parade formation against machine guns, French cadets refusing to lie down, because "French officers should never crawl on their bellies, least of all before enemy bullets" (and promptly getting scythed down), English boys being given a football and told that the one to kick it in the enemy trenches while charging would get a medal. Not to mention that this war broke the steel spine of the Western civilization, WWII only finishing the job.

[Shrillland]

Looking back, everyone else is right. WWI was the stupidest. Forget my previous suggestion.

[Steel Talons]

The war i had in my mind yesterday was stupid

No joke chosing between a bag of chips and 2-liters of pop was extreamly difficult that day for some reason

[Volmachtia]

War of Jenkins' Ear.

[E-lands]

Stupidest? I can't narrow it down further, but either WWI, Vietnam, or the Children's Crusade.