I'm Hypohystericalhistory. If you dont know me from TikTok, I'm an academic historian with a research interest in military history. I have 2 masters degrees in history and am currently a PhD candidate. My specialisation is in ancient history, although I have a research interest in contemporary warfare. You can find my work in places like Security Challanges, the peer reviewed Australian strategic journal. I have never worked in the defence industry or in the ADF.
Texas last year encountered enough invaders to fill our largest city 4 times. It's difficult to imagine Australia ever having a border problem of that scale.
After DSR would love to see the next Iraq and New Guinea series - delighted to hear you're considering those next, fantastic series. Would be very interested to hear your analysis of some of the major Vietnam War events. Dien Bien Phu > Ia Drang > Tet Offensive etc.
Your channel is a goldmine mate! Havent seen such indepth analysis on the military in general (especially on the Australian military) Heres to many more videos!
Love watching your videos, they always encompass extremely thorough analysis. Also enjoy these more personable Q&A videos with your own personal views. Keep it up
The 66 LAW is designated M72 not the M27. You can see the marking on the bottom 66 @53:09. The battle of Goose Green (and the Falklands campaign more generlly) is an example of exactly why Australia should have F-35Bs for use on the Canberra class. We expect to be fighting amphibious campaigns thousands of km away from our own country. Not having air when you hit a contestd beach and the operations that follow will suck.
General MacArthur’s role in WWII and the Korean War is highly debatable. Beginning with the Japanese attack on Clark Airfield in the Philippines. His enormous influence in Washington ensured that he was asked to leave the battlefield and go to Australia. I wonder what the outcome would have been if he had been left with General Wainwright to face the Japanese. He was referred to as “ dugout Doug” by his own soldiers who were abandoned to face the Japanese onslaught. Eventually President Truman was the one who stood up to him and dismissed him.
The Canadians could look to France for SSNs. They're somewhat in the Francosphere and I suspect given how much France were telling us they would have made the Attack class SSNs if that's what we wanted when we ditched that progeam, I don't think there is a lot of reason to think they wouldn't do that for Canada. Canada is only in a safe part of the world if you ignore the fact that the shortest route between the US and Russia is over the arctic - over Canada. Whilst it is unlikely any stratetic exhange betweeen Russia and the US would inolve Canada - that was well acknowldeged during the warmer parts of the cold war - the DEW line for example were more in Canada than the US. The other factor for Canada is the same for most western nations, trade with Asia. Canada has a Pacific coast and I believe a fair bit of their trade crosses the Pacifc. I believe China is Canada's biggest trade partner with a fair chunk of trade with Japan and India too, so any conflict in the Pacific - especially a conflict with China would be a big deal for Canada. Obviously SSNs are useful for the arctic, but I suspect if a war in the Pacifc kicks off that Canada would find some SSNs very handy. A single US system for Australia would be air. We have access to the classes of warship we need. Don't have enoiugh of them, but assuming AUKUS comes through, with SSNs we have the classes of vessel we need. What we really lack is long range air, particularly in strike and real fighter/air superiority. We lost our strike capability and we don't have a good air to air aircraft. So I'd say we'd want NGAD or B21.
Interesting with regards the question about dream US systems for the ADF, I've been wondering around the shear vagueness in public statements about our third virginia class, the only "new build" of the three. Ostensibly meant to be a new-build block six, and there have been statements that it will NOT have the additional 4 silo VPM mid-section. I've been wondering if australia is angling to have the US build us one of them to the seabed warfare spec they're building two of their own to, to supplement USS Jimmy Carter, i.e. with a substantial capability to spy on, modify, and attack seabed infrastructure. It might well suit all three aukus partners to have a similar capability to that operating in the indian ocean side of the timor sea. Of course that means we'd be operating *three classes of SSN* effectively, but the plan's already close to that anyway
The 32nd Inf. Div. endured a living hell in that campaign. The division had the distinction of having been in combat more days than any other division. 654 days in combat. More than any division in all our wars.To read about the campaign, get the bòok, The Ghost Mountain Boys. About the 2nd Bn. 126th Inf. Regt.
I was totally ignorant of how ferocious the fighting was in the Falklands War. The insane bravery of the pilots, the steadfastness of the navy, and the brutal hand-to-hand combat by both sides. This two part series is a must see for anyone wanting to know the whole story of the Falklands War. Masterpiece history telling.
Also, regarding additional content if I may - while I am still a history undergraduate student I would LOVE to help out somehow. Normandy (and NW Europe overall) is somewhere I feel I can be of particular value. I have a collection of ~25,000 individual documents for one (mainly regarding airborne operations) along w/ numerous secondary sources. Please don’t be put off by my username lol, I am more than willing to play second fiddle and frankly this could be an incredible learning experience for me!
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My big fear in a conflict in the pacific would be a wide spread Pearl Harbor 2. Hitting bases of the US and its Allie’s across the pacific. I know Perun mentioned in a recent vid that there are some issues between the US army and Airforce when it comes to base defense. On a more funnier side, I had a discussion with someone about using the GAU-8’s from the A-10 as SHORAD. If all 250+ planes are retired that’d leave maybe 200+ guns to be set up like C-RAM. I mean the army is expanding their use of the MK44 30mm which uses the same 30x173mm as the GAU-8!
I think an important aspect for future warfare is the scale/duration of a future conflict. I think there are important lessons to be learned from Ukraine, but neither side is fighting in ways that the west would. For Ukraine they simply lack the capacity to do so. While Russia of course has their own doctrine, but they foolishly thought this would be a short conflict. Other than EW and maybe strategic air defense, I don’t think much else will translate to a conflict in the Pacific. We see so much videos of unsupported armor getting taken out by a drone, but something like a US manned Bradley acting by itself is just really unlikely.
This is an incredibly educational video. It's more effective to alleviate fears than Dr. Strangelove, and does so with factual information. I very much appreciate your work.
Back when men were men. No war is good, but this one facinated me as a youngster, particurly the jets involved and the underdog status of the Harrier. Brilliant work.
