The Stupidest War in History?

[Nazis in Space]

No but blatantly copying from an article from cracked.com will make you look like an idiot.

Especially if it's already been posted in the thread.

Not to mention that cracked isn't exactly an academic resource, and the historicity of the event is debatable at best.

[Greed and Death]

The Football War

Speaking of Latin American wars...

If google says this land is mine it is true.
Wow I have an interesting idea for a hack on google now.

[Maroza]

Especially if it's already been posted in the thread.

Not to mention that cracked isn't exactly an academic resource, and the historicity of the event is debatable at best.

I didn't know I was writing an essay.

[Samuraikoku]

I'll say it was stupid of us from Argentina to start the Falklands War.

[Herzoggrad]

The NATO-led war on Muammar Gaddafi's Libya. It will only lead to islamists seizing power and destabilizing the world further.

R.I.P Colonel Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi

[Vermmeria]

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.

World War 2 was probably the most justified war in history on the Allies part

[Malgrave]

I'll say it was stupid of us from Argentina to start the Falklands War.

You were the one who wrote the post on the previous Argentine-Falkland thread stating the disrepair of the modern Argentine Air-Force?

[Crux Prime]

All wars are pretty stupid, because at the end, everyone has lost. Not just lives. They've lost their right to live as soon as they started taking other people's right to live.

[Trussvania]

To those saying the Children's Crusade, bear in mind that there was no fighting persay, only capture of the Boy priests and many of their followers by Turkish slavers.

[Samuraikoku]

I'll say it was stupid of us from Argentina to start the Falklands War.

You were the one who wrote the post on the previous Argentine-Falkland thread stating the disrepair of the modern Argentine Air-Force?

Yes, but that's because further governments dismantled our military and now we can't even guard our own airspace. Although the military junta started it by going against a superior enemy for a makeshift pointless cause.

Edit: My point is that our current deficient military condition started after a stupid decision like going to war with the UK over a cause completely unjustified (as I think I stated in said Falklands thread).

[Fedeledland]

You need to go back to school and pay attention in class this time, so that you actually learn some history, if you think the Spanish-American War was an accident, the ARW was about tea stamps, and the Quasi-War was a raspberry to France.

The American Revolution was fought to enable American merchants the ability to not only sell commodities to any buyer they wanted, but also to produce finished goods for sale at profit to any buyer they wanted. The first point had been largely done until about 1715 when Britain cracked down on the under ground trade with other nations, particularly the Dutch Republic. A lot of money was up for grabs from the American merchant class, and mercantilism stood in their way. So they made up a lot of nonsense about their rights being infringed and over taxation (to provide security the colonists wanted from France, yet didn't want to have to pay for) to whip the people into a frenzy. It was basically the world's first capitalist revolution.

The Sinking of the Maine WAS AN ACCIDENT. The American Revolutions was for a few proclamations and taxes which limited American rights but a little (still they had far less taxes and more rights than say, Liverpool, which, guess what? DIDN'T HAVE REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT EITHER). And the Quasi-War started because of CARGO SEIZING, which wouldn't cause a war in any civilized nation.

Also, you entirely fail to grasp what I said.

[Actaris]

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.

So you'd rather Europe was overun by the still going USSR at the moment. If USA hadn't intervened when they did then the Soviet union would have defeated germany and just kept on going.

[Homelands our]

The one in Canada in which only a pig got shot.

[The cold ice]

world war 1, also the children's crusade was damned sad you dicks

[Actaris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

lol

[Al-Kahlifia]

1-Iraq the First
2- Iraq the Second
3- Korea
4- Afghanistan

[Farnhamia]

1-Iraq the First
2- Iraq the Second
3- Korea
4- Afghanistan

How was the Korean War stupid? The North Koreans invaded the South in order to incorporate them into a Soviet-allied communist state. The people in the South objected and the US, plus a bunch of other countries, sided with them.

[Greed and Death]

To those saying the Children's Crusade, bear in mind that there was no fighting persay, only capture of the Boy priests and many of their followers by Turkish slavers.

You know most of that account is fictional.
The involvement of children was also exaggerated, due to a mistranslation of Latin text, boy was used as a slang term to refer to landless rabble, not so much to refer to the age of the people involved.

[Ovisterra]

All of them.

[The Fanboyists]

The First World War is the most needless major war to have occurred.

But I'll take the Chaco War as at least among the stupidest ever. It effectively was a desperate attempt between Bolivia and Paraguay to avoid being the "losers" of South America. It was an entirely-too-long, proportionally-devastating war over a strategically and economically worthless region.

[Farnhamia]

The First World War is the most needless major war to have occurred.

But I'll take the Chaco War as at least among the stupidest ever. It effectively was a desperate attempt between Bolivia and Paraguay to avoid being the "losers" of South America. It was an entirely-too-long, proportionally-devastating war over a strategically and economically worthless region.

Ah, but the War of the Triple Alliance, fought from 1864 to 1870, was far and away bloodier and more devastating. A huge percentage of the Paraguayan population died, Brazil's economy was shaken and her military became a political force, which had consequences right down into the 20th century.

[Maroza]

funny how possibly the stupidest war in history (WW1) led to possibly one of the most justifiable wars in history (WW2)

[Bears Armed]

The First World War is the most needless major war to have occurred.

But I'll take the Chaco War as at least among the stupidest ever. It effectively was a desperate attempt between Bolivia and Paraguay to avoid being the "losers" of South America. It was an entirely-too-long, proportionally-devastating war over a strategically and economically worthless region.

EDIT: Oops, ninja'd...
How about the 'War of the Triple Alliance', back in the 19th century: That also had Paraguay as one of the sides, but in that incident their dictator thought that it would be a good idea to go to war simultaneously with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay... According to some accounts it's estimated that Paraguay lost somewhere around 90% of its adult males in the fighting...

[Farnhamia]

funny how possibly the stupidest war in history (WW1) led to possibly one of the most justifiable wars in history (WW2)

If you look at it just right, they were the same war with a 25 year break in the middle.

[Maroza]

funny how possibly the stupidest war in history (WW1) led to possibly one of the most justifiable wars in history (WW2)

If you look at it just right, they were the same war with a 25 year break in the middle.

so they were just one war that was both the most stupid and most justifiable

truth is stranger than fiction