US vs German Squads (Mid-1944) Who was Superior? | Animated History
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Channel: The Armchair Historian
Views: 1,073,171
Rating: 4.7170405 out of 5
Keywords: World war two history, united states army squad, german army squad, squad tactics, ww2 strategy, world war two tactics, military tactics, army organization, how good was the german army?, how good was the american army?, america vs germany, america against germany, united states vs germany, us vs german infantry, german vs us infantry, usa infantry, german infantry, american infantry, world war two combat, second world war
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Length: 16min 54sec (1014 seconds)
Published: Sat Jun 27 2020
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A lot of his fan base is pretty horrible. I had to leave his discord due to the sheer amount of Wehraboos.
The biggest problem, imo, with trying to compare US and German units, is the US was very homogeneous when it came to quality of training for units, barring obvious specialized exceptions like the airborne and Rangers. Like even the cooks and clerks were expected to be competent combatants if required, with all units up to a certain standard.
Meanwhile the German units vary so wildly in terms of quality that trying to take an "average" German unit probably does give you the sort of unit used in this comparison because, frankly, the best of the best for Germany is, at best, above average for a US unit, while there's so many garbage units the average is dragged pretty far down lol.
AH was basically asking for it with the unusually un-academic method chosen to illustrate the results. I get what he was going for, he wanted to avoid sitting in front of an excel sheet reading figures, but this leaves a lot to pick at whether you agree with the result or not. A series like this has potential, and I hope he'll recognize the few valuable criticisms in the comments and use them to improve.
Red army: giant multitute of diferent weapons and complex tactics along with 40% female members and flexible chain structure with the main issue of being fucking massive and having the advantage of a centrally planned economy
US army:giant technological advancements over any other army plus greater economical power im such a way thag they were capable of giving most soldiers semi automatic sand costly submachinguns
Nazis: I dont know they had meth and were fast and thats it, their tanks were more hesvy than what their transmisions alowed them and had such horrible supply chains that they relied on fucking horses
Winner that nazis obv because fuck history Im a facist for a reason
I do find the debate between the MG in a squad vs. an Automatic Rifle interesting, though. In WWII it was very pronounced, with the army using the BAR, while the Germans opted for the MG42. very different doctrines and strategies. After the war the US army adopted the MG strategy as well, but recently the marine corp has switched completely back to the Automatic rifle strategy, equipping their men with the M27 IAR, replacing the SAW.
Honestly I've always felt that more focused accurate shots was more useful than a big brrrrrrrrrrr that the squad needs to focus on defending, revolving around it. I like that the Marine Corp went back to their roots of over 80 years ago, I just wish the army would follow suit after they choose their next squad weapon.
didn't he fell for the hitler should have listened to his general recently? also the problem with compiring units is that they are way too much parameter to take into account (ideology, the state of the logistic,the weapon they had etc)