Dirtiest Tricks Used in War

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As the old saying goes "If you find yourself in a fair fight it's time to re-evaluate your tactics". No such thing as a "Dirty Trick" when it comes to surviving combat.

The most absurd thing about the electrified marshes battle is not simply the scale of how ACME the plan is, but that it worked spectacularly

Holy cow that swampland electrocution is the dirtiest here ngl - using the walkable water as a natural barricade using conductivity, now that's proper defense.

In Iraq we would often play loud heavy metal music when the enemy was near because we knew they HATE IT, so much it would distract them 😅, it worked well

We say that the Germans have no sense of humour, but they certainly knew how to troll... What I like about it is that it required few resources or violence and still had a major impact on the enemy as they became paranoid and withdrew troops from the front to chase after ghosts... Heck, it changed travel plans and some celebs were detained as potential Germans...

Years ago I remember talking to a Vietnam vet, he said he was special forces during the time. He told me about how they would sneak rounds of ammo loaded with C4 explosive, into Charlie’s ammo caches. It’s cool to see video talking about the actual mission.

The Iran-Iraq war in the 80s was such a brutal war that the use of electricity to counter that Iranian offensive still makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.

Because of that cat trick the Egyptian army suffered 50,000 casualties while the Achaemenid casualties were only 7,000 Seems like Cambyses inflicted a cat-astrophic defeat on his enemy with a perrrrfect plan

I think one of the weirdest ones I ever heard of was something Canada did during world war 1. They would throw cans of food into the German trenches and when they heard people run up to the food they would toss grenades in.

The Egyptian story, releasing cats at the enemy is funny and genius. I wish I could see this in real life it would be adorable

Regarding the first part (switching the ammo with overcharged rounds): Just incase anyone is interested in exactly what the catastrophic failure of a firearm and the damage it can do to the user, the channel/"Gun-tuber" 'Kentuckyballistics" has several videos of different guns being blown up using overcharged rounds, including the AK-47! And to help picture just how insanely high pressure the rounds were that the MACV-SOG units were sabotaging the ammo supplied with, there's two videos in which Kentuckyballistics blows up .50cal rifles, which normally use rounds with an average operating pressure of 55,000psi, the one he uses to cause the rapid disassembly of the .50's is overcharged to about 190,000 psi.. MACV-SOG were by all accounts making rounds with upwards of 250,000psi.. and in a cartridge thats more than half the size of a .50cal round.. That's insane.. that would have been like a grenade going off in your hand/in your face.

Napoleon did one dirty trick back when he was emperor. Before the battle of Austerlitz, the Russian army retreated when Napoleon began to approach them just to undermine him So Napoleon tricked Tsar Alexander I into battle by sending a letter to him saying he was in a vulnerable position. The tsar believed him & met at Austerlitz, the Austrian empire During the battle of Austerlitz, Napolean retreated from the high ground and the Russians took it. Only for them to realise it was a deception tactic as that is what Napolean wanted Thanks to the fog, his army surrounded them & the Russians were forced to retreat giving Napolean the victory

Cambyses was interesting, he marched an army of probsbly 5000 men into the desert and disappeared without trace. Some versions say 50,000 men. Apparently in a big sandstorm. There are no big piles of bodies and it was suspected that this army got lost and dispersed into local villages and didn’t die.

This video teaches a valuable lesson: War isn't fair.

If I was a general in a war, I would build a giant wooden horse to give to the enemy as a gift. I would load the horse with soldiers and as soon as it was in place, the attack would be on. Genius

Ah, the ancient Egyptian reverence for cats. Every living cat on this planet today still remembers that 😊

Wow, that SOG thing was interesting. More videos like that would be cool.

During war and in some cases, reasonable men must do unreasonable things to win the day

The electrocution tactic damn, I've always thought that such tactic was possible but never thought that someone will actually use it. The ancient Persian and Egypt using cat was hilarious. My favorite is still project eldest son. Read that story years ago, and was amazed and impressed by it. The Green Berets basically took guerrilla warfare to a whole new level.