German Reacts to 'The Korean War' 

this man's understanding of warfare, international politics and history is truly um... "elementary" to put it nicely

My grandad fought in Korea, as a naval gunner. He used to routinely tell me about his first encounter with a Russian Mig-15 or similar, and the shock on their faces of the speed and maneuverability of it. He really, really badly wanted to shoot it down but they had orders to just observe. His ship rescued a downed American B-29 crew, and became pen pals with the captain. But he also had terrible stories of bodies in rivers, seamines bumping against his ship, etc. He agreed like so many others its deemed a "Forgotten" War. Nobody really talks about it. It was full of American and Communist atrocity.

Video: "McArthur wanted to nuke Korea" Tommy: "I'm with McArthur here" Bro💀

I love seeing hoi4 players think they know better than actual soldiers 😂

The Korean War in the US is often labeled the "Forgotten War". It's a shame more people don't know about what went on in this war and how important it was to modern geopolitics.

"At this point America has nukes and Russia doesn't right?" Yeah MacArthur had some ideas along them lines

General MacArthur was also singularly responsible for keeping the US military segregated. While the military was officially desegregated in 1948, MacArthur would refuse to integrate any units while he lead the military. The man that replaced him, Ridgeway, was openly pro-integration and called for integration of units, but that wouldn't start taking effect in Korea until 1953.

12:07 a FPS set in the Korean War would be pretty sick.

My grandfather is a Korean war vet. He is in his mid 90s.

Tommy pay attention to the video challenge

bro really said "but in hoi4"

In Denmark, we have a song about a medical boat that served in the Korean war :) Somewhat a banger

MacArthur never pressured president Truman to use Nukes on North Korean soil. Truman publicly stated that he MacArthur wanted to use them and was made to recant it due to it being knowingly false. He admitted to it being his opinion of what he thought MacArthur wanted. Moreover MacArthur never was “insubordinate” under military law according to the Joint Chiefs of staff at the time since MacArthur never disobeyed the orders given to him in the war. He was fired for basically speaking publicly on governmental policy as a military officer which went against a presidential order on that very thing.

0:50 The movies name is "We were soldiers", i recommend you give it a watch if you haven't.

Video narrator: This is why the American troops are under equipped with obsolete weapons. Tommy 3 minutes later: I thought the Americans were technologically super advanced? why are they loosing?

Fun fact about the UN at this time. The USSR had boycotted it, and china was represented my Taiwan. So basically the UN was just the West and friends.

I hate when Tommy talks when the speaker in the video talking. Now I can't hear either of them

Funfact is that China was ultra undergeared and diddnt had alot of weapons and aircraft. They were still building up at that time to establish a proper army. Yet the US bombed chinese territory behind the Yalu river. Mao and stalin had alot of conversations about that and Mao felt that the US/UN keeps going. For them the only chance to dismiss such thoughts was to help the Koreans. All this troops were volunteers btw and Maos son literally went in aswell, i think he died even there. Anyways, the US feared china for well over 100 years now because of their population and when they modernize and challenge the US's hegemony.

If a “Second Korean War” breaks out tomorrow… the North would get smacked even before US troops start arriving. The most technologically advanced Aircraft they have is a single squadron of MiG-29’s they got in the 90’s. The rest are MiG-21’s (or the Chinesium copy), MiG-19’s and MiG-15’s. ROKAF operates F-16’s, F-15’s, F-35’s, indigenous designed light fighters in addition to the Vintage F-5’s for Light ground attack roles. The war won’t be very good for South Korea economically, and Seoul would get shelled (the damage is always overestimated, as only Rocket Assisted projectiles can reach the urban centers). The North Korean SAM networks are also exclusively old soviet crap. North Korea’s most modern tank is a stretched an Elongated T-62 with a 125mm 2A46 (or Chinese equivalent) and some bolted on Composite armor with ERA. Does have a CITV for the commander and a laser rangefinder.+Gunners thermals. These are likely to be Gen 2. They don’t have many of these either. South Korea has upwards of a thousand K1 (based off the XM1 design) K1A1 (Upgraded with a 120mm main gun and several other improvements, similar to M1A1) and now the K2 Black Panther. Which is one of the best MBT’s in the world. 120mm L/55, 3rd Gen Therms for both Gunner and Commander. Hydro pneumatic suspension and many other improvements that put it well above every North Korean tank. They also have waaaaayyyy more of them than North Korea. This isn’t even mentioning Morale, the fact that many NK soldiers are already starving and almost non-existent Officer corp and logistics on the NK side. Their only hope is China… and even China isn’t interested in dealing with another war and would likely force Kim to retreat behind the DMZ. That’s why, if North Korea manages to start fielding nukes… we should set up a Nuke sharing program with South Korea until they can manage to produce and field their own. North Korea is the last “country” you would want to see get their hands on Nukes… as they are unpredictable, extremely brainwashed and likely national-y suicidal.

Did he really miss the nuke bit?

Acting like it was like 50% nato 50% america when the casualties are like 95% american and south korean.

Back in 2014 indy started a week by week covering of "The Great war" the first world war. and its fucking awsome. there is a second world war coverage and the inter war period too. If you want ALL the details about these Masive events there is no better presentation. the channel name is World War Two and The Great War! Have fun.

My grandfather was deployed in the immediate aftermath of Korea as a marine sharpshooter, it was no joke that many thought the ceasefire was just a ceasefire. He used to tell a story about being in the watchtower one night and seeing something in the brush. He screamed at it to come out 3 times. He shot it. As the shadow fell from the bush it let out a, 'mooooooooo...'. He had to pay the farmer who lost their cow the next morning and had no pocket change for R&R in Japan.

There is a great documentary made in the late 1980s that has interviews with American and South Korean vets but also somehow North Korean vets living in North Korea and one Chinese vet

Tommy in this video was trippin lol

China did not mobilize its national almost strength to fight in the Korean War. It only sent volunteers to participate in the war. them were experienced in combat. Most of the supplies were provided by the Soviet Union. The United States did not dare to nuclear attack it against China because the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons can strike back. I used to hear from my history teacher in class that he had an American friend who also participated in the Korean War. China used the tactics of wave of ​​people to continuously charge the US line. In the machine gun positions, he kept changing guns and fired to repel hundreds of attacks in the morning until the evening. That's insane.

Companies did build armies in the past, its what merc companies were. And if your gonna say "oh, well nowadays it would be Amazon, their rich, its different", not really, these companies were usually created by either banks or traders, and they sometimes controlled more wealth and manpower than entire nations and their standing armies. And despite popular belief, not, they didn't only make money from war, they also helped with projects by the feudal government and were paid by the crown, sometimes these armies even became standing armies. Can you imagine if the US army was sponsored by Amazon, that's how powerful these companies used to be.

My great granddaddy fought in this war. May God bless his soul.

8:30 I could be wrong but Mercenaries are treated like partisans or guerrilla fighters (irregular forces) in that they not regular army units means they are not covered by the Geneva convention thus if they're captured then they can't legally be granted any protections therefore they can legally be tortured and/or killed in addition to be being starved with no basic prison rights. So mercenaries and partisans can be used in warfare but it's not recommended as they cannot be protected by any legal protections as their existence is a violation of the Geneva convention (depending on how the Mercenaries are used of course) and of course both are not recommended as they can easily complicate and rapidly yet unnecessarily accelerate perfectly preventable horrific situations in a war/s.

Animated History teaches more about history and makes it way more interesting than schools. I love history and it sucked that in school we glossed over a lot of important events that help my country become a true nation of its own, not just another colony of the commonwealth.

Tommy acting like invading china is a simple task

It may be that I am suffering from a Mandela effect, but I think that Tommy once in one of his Imagine moments said what the world would be like if MacArthur had used nuclear bombs on China. That is to say that he already saw a video of the Korean war, or not?

My grandfather served in the Korean War, obviously never spoke about it or really opened up about it until the day he died. They were an ammo truck driver, also working at the motor-pool in the DMZ (or the zone which would become it). What really adds on to it all is my grandfather was a conscientious objector, never carried a gun. One fathers day as I'm at a museum with my old man he opened up about my grandfather. Told me that one night at his FOB or what have you, grandpa caught a PLA soldier (likely a scout) trying to sneak beyond the wire, so in a moment of fear and responsibility he snuck forward to where the scout was behind a tree and strangled him against it with a piece of fencing. He got an award for it from his CO the next day. Something he never told my father until his later years, that info was only passed on to me since grandpa has been gone since the 1980s. Poor poor man

One of the most insane things that happened in the korean war was the philippines, they kept flanking the chinese and stole their tanks, then won an outnumbered battle in yultong with only 1,000 philippine soldiers against 40,000 enemy soldiers, sht was like something the Taskforce 141 would do

Funilly enough about private armies, At one point in history, Pepsi co. (yes, the sofdrink company) had one of the largest navies in the world after the soviets paid them with ships and subs instead of cash for soda lol

"stream snipping" at the dmz 😂

i watch this channel you mentioned 22:40 it really awesome and inlighting this guy know his stuff

West Germany didn't have army back than

Tommy 100 times: DONT SAY ANYTHING but I wonder why they don’t push into North Korea Chat: proceeds to spoil everything

For info the Americans weren’t the only one like my great grandfather fought in the korea in the Belgian army but they were badly equipped with practically no supplies just for info

Where's the Philippine Flag, we had troops in this war as well

Dude the technology China had during the war was basically 0, the poverty rate of China was like 88% at that time and still managed to force a retreat.😂

My grandfather was an army veteran of the Pacific Theater and fought in the Korean War. My dad, who later fought in Vietnam, was living in Seoul on a US military base as a little kid when the war broke out (they lived on base in Frankfurt before that). He and my grandmother were sent back to the US and settled in El Paso, Texas on a military base there. My grandpa went deaf in his right ear from how many communists he and his buddies lit up with their Howitzer artillery cannon. He died long before I was born, but his grave is on base near Ft. Worth, Texas. The man lived on battlefields so its only fitting he'd be buried on military ground. He died from lung cancer, but even as a pack a day smoker, I guarantee you he smoked more commies than cigarettes thanks to Korea.

22:30 Tommy conveniently speaks over American/South Korean war crimes. I told you guys he was CIA agent this whole time.

Old but a funny thing I saw is that apparently a North Korean propaganda account actually got mad at this video and called it western propaganda, Armchair Historian on Kim’s sights now lol.

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Billionaires could pay for an army but not something that could rival proper military’s. Because than you are fighting economies.

The Soviets had nukes at this time - so nuking China was not an option

Don’t let McArthur get a 20 kill streak.

My Battalion when I was in the military was the same that was encircled in the Chosin reservoir.

My great great great grandfather served.

It's a reminder that china back then and now can actually even the odds against allies power

in this video you can truly see Tommy being like that 13 year old who says Germany would of won if he was in charge

My granddad was there got his Korean medals

Big Boss Tommy Moment.

Tommy, what is your opinion on Germany closing their last 3 nuclear powerplants. And Angela Merkel being given Germanys highest honor.

The German army got 100billion euro onetime budget, which wasnt nearly enough to even get all the basic necesseties for the army. So i think a billionaire with 100billuon wouldnt donthat much

Sangman Rhee was such a little weasel

Remember Korean War did not end it is still going on and this war will have the longest ceasefire.

Dude cant imagine how sad it is living in north korea because of the korean war shaving off some of the 38th Parallel

22:27 Bro i cant💀 Mussolini playing hitler💀

For a challange play as the Republic of China in the Cold War Mod

You know if the American failed in their landing in the south Korea, there's a possibility that Korea would be united and the south will lead the north in some kind of revolution after the fall of the Soviet, though I can't say for certain that China would just sit down and watch their last communist allied crumbled under revolution, but same thing would happen to Japan, I don't think they will just sit down with the possibility to help and be friend the dagger that pointed right into their island

I'm pretty sure there are a few millionaires with their own private army already

Every time I play the Cold War mod, it always crashes the second or third time I load up the game. I don’t think I have enough RAM (4GBs).

In Rome nearly all Wars were financed and by rich people

when i saw this i thought it was oversimplifiedxd

Wonder why nothin was said about battles soviet pilots had against the Americans, and the Black Friday

You have to make 100b every month to maintain 100k private army

my grandfather was in the 24th infantry division codename the gimlets they were the first to step on korean land and pushed to the 38th parallel he survived he died to cancer at the age of 72 i have black and white photos that he had taken of the cities tanks etc

Its funny tommy brings up russias veto for a Ukraine intervention since the korean war only happened since the soviets were protesting the UN and the security council got it through with them absent

the US supported the regime that massacred almost half a million is not something the schools in the US would teach you

Also the people in America have already been protesting to end the war in Korea because nobody want to send their children to die from a continent away for those asians.

rising storm 3 should be korean war

>Least brainwashed kraut. these completely delusional backhanded comments are hilarious

Is he gonna make real life advances warfare? Cod

The World War 2 channel is great ,sadly tommy probably cant watch a lot of it because it shows a lot of gore and shit

well the 1st proxy war after ww2 was the greek civil war of 1946 if am not wrong

Imagine storming Normandy to stop the Germans from stopping the soviets, and then a few years later storming the beaches of Korea to stop the soviets lol. Prolly should have let the Germans take care of the soviets and then just negotiated peace after that, and avoided the entire Cold War lol.

My grandfather was an aviator that flew Corsairs over Korea.

I thought Germany has better education than the US, what is happening here, this guy is acting like a child with a beard

My grandpa was a combat engineer in the Korean War

Nukes will help us in a war untill you see your own citys getting nuked lol 😂

Atlas corp

Never mess with Mao Zedong

13:00 ahhh the armchair historian, always forgetting the ANZACs

This is hilarious, Tommy would be there in 1952 being like MACARTHUR'S OUR GUY NUKE THOSE YELLOW MONKEYS" lmao

The reason china did so well during the war was cause the US and allies genuinely believed china would not get involved and all of a sudden they crossed the border launching an insane surprise attack outnumbering and overwhelming US and south Korean forces. South Korean lines broke , threating to encircle American and other forces so the entire allied force had to fall back. After that it basically became a stale mate of American tech versus Chinese numbers.

6:30 "South Korea got wrecked by underequipped Norks". Is this guy dumb? Why has this narrative spread that NORKS were underequipped? SK had no tanks, no anti tanks and were severely less equipped and had much less manpower than North Korea.

I love Tommy, but I can't stand it when he talks about history or politics.

You can't talk while the video is playing. Stop the video talk, and resume

Why was in Korean war videos battle of Yultong is always forgotten.

nice one

Do twitch chatters just spew the first thought in their head? So much misinformation in chat 😂 otherwise good video.

Usually I agree with tommy, but I am in fact, not with tommy on this one.

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Thank you for fighting for our freedom.

Yee haw

The massive stockpile of guns, trucks, tanks, and airplanes the USA produced during WW2 was either sold, discarded, or not maintained. Cost-saving measures included huge drawdown in manpower. Veterans went back home, used the GI Bill to start a new life. The US units from Japan who initially landed in Korea were untrained, under-equipped, and not expecting war. The US wasn’t politically prepared for another mobilization. The workers unions went on strike, refusing to work longer for less pay during “peacetime.” Lack of steel greatly impacted the production of artillery shells and vehicles. The countries who supported South Korea each brought different weapons, which compounded logistical problems. The lessons of Korea led to NATO standardizing its weapons. It also created the military-industrial complex in the USA, for better or worse. Also top US generals learned not to oppose the executive branch after seeing Gen. MacArthur get sacked, which would affect how the Vietnam War and future wars were waged.

lol