so he was a cossack, a hun, an achaemenid, us light cavalry, english french, hussar, dragoon, sioux warrior, and a khan, a white, a red, a tsar guard, us special forces, a crusader, polish, a mounty, a confederate, crimean, swiss, and sweden, uhlan and an aussie
@Time Keeper I couldn’t help but notice you only mention “US Special Forces”, from which I deduce that you’re yet another American that thinks of the American military as the greatest, but feel free to correct it. You have no idea how disappointing it is when reading an incorrect comment about a song when the lyrics are “I was with the special forces…”, but to imagine that only Americans were in Afghanistan is showing a great deal of disrespect to all the allies that fought and died there.
While dogs may be man's best friend Horses are our brother in arms, fought and bleed together through countless conflicts, it is time to let them rest and enjoy peace
Horses time in war has come and gone, but it still boggles my mind that for thousands of years, only until a little over 100 years ago, horses were one of our greatest tools and weapons, and all it took was one war to change everything
Not quite; there were other times in history (such as before the invention of stirrups or in the 1600s after the Battle of Breitenfeld) when infantry was the dominant force on the battlefield.
I feel that as long as armies need a quiet mode of transportation immune to modern detection with the ability to move at decent pace the cavalry man would still live. They are being used right now actually in the conflict in Ukraine
It's really interesting that the tempo picks up until the great war, slows, and then picks back up after the part about the US special forces riding in Afghanistan.
@R2RO20 while that is one interpretation of it I like to think it's more so the ghost of cavalry (or Horse Soilders lol) looking on the Special Forces on horse back and rejoicing that there breed of soldiers aren't dead after WW1
I dont why but I get chills from this song. Men faced with certain death with a companion who would disregard its own life to follow them, its honorable its beyond the instinct of normal animals and for some reason, regardless of how evil war is, is beautiful.
9.5/10. At least one of those "hussars" should have been the Polish winged variant, but I'll give you back most of the points because you also added the fadeout part.
The eternal horse sodger, riding on, for whatever master, mars' righful son... sodgers story, sodgers glory, when the battle's lost or won, horseflesh"s a shilling the ton...poor beasties of war! German Wehrmacht in WWll had app. 1.5 million killed or deceased horses...."Why, it's a damn crime that horses are in the war!" Private Detersen in Remarques "All quiet on the western front") having ridden a gentle Trakhener myself, I can't imagine hurting one of these gentle (if occasionally stubborn) creatures for "all the tea in china"... The monsters are us! 😢
When I see that image at 1:59 all I see is the death korps of Krieg riding into machine gun fire with lances that have explosives at the end of the tip.
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through I?m a horse soldier, eternal, through and through I's with Custer and the 7th in ?76 or ?77 Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux And the tears and devistation of a once proud warrior nation This I know ?cause I was riding with them too I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan On the frozen Mongol steppe when at his height I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard When Romanov was murdered in the night I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen And once again against myself was cast Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen You'll know that it was with them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died Gunned down in scarlet, coldest blood I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest Suffered General Wilson's Union raid Mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do and die At Crimea with the charging light brigade On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen The devil to the sabre I shall put With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber Striking terror into regiment of foot I knew my days were numbered when o?er the trenches lumbered More modern machinations de la guerre No match for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky With a final rear guard action I retreat No match for barbered wire or the armoured engines whine Reluctant I retire and take my leave Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses Dostum?s Northern Alliance give their thanks No matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me That we may see a swelling in our ranks I?s with the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed And with the Polish lancers charging German tanks Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White House down And cursed the sack of York and sons of Yanks
@@TheologyMan74 This New Year I was by car over there. I came down the mountainside on a bit of fog during the night from Kahlenberg to Wienna. Impressive. I was imagining that cavalry charge. The view on the City is indeed something that rings bells of history...
La Guerre means "the War" in French. But it means something different. There is a quit famous German Book about Strategy that is named "Vom Kriege" from a General called Clausewitz. And "Vom Kriege" is called "De La Guerre" in French. Corb Lund talks about "Vom Kriege" cause Clauswitz talked in his book about how War changed and a more Mobile approch is needed, which was basis for most of the German Doctrin in the last Century and which founded the Blitzkrieg and Tank Warfare.
Simply put, it just meant in this case - “of the War”. The whole line relates to rapid fire, barbed wire, trenches, tanks, and aircraft - “the steelers of the sky and the machinations de la guerre”..
@@findantu I stand corrected. Probably it’s my hearing but when Corb sings it it still sounds to me that it’s “Steelers”. No excuses as the bloody lyrics were there to start with! Time for this Norwegian Blue to fall off his perch, it’s well overdue.
@Time Keeper I couldn’t help but notice you only mention “US Special Forces”, from which I deduce that you’re yet another American that thinks of the American military as the greatest, but feel free to correct it. You have no idea how disappointing it is when reading an incorrect comment about a song when the lyrics are “I was with the special forces…”, but to imagine that only Americans were in Afghanistan is showing a great deal of disrespect to all the allies that fought and died there.
Its because by the end of September 2001, we had US S.F. and CIA scouting pre invasion, on horse back, entrenched with the northern alliance. You don't know how disappointing it is to see none Americans run that suck with zero knowledge of what actually occurred on the ground.
@@thomasetter6056 Unfortunately you’re also showing your ignorance of who was there in Ghanners. As part of the British SF, specifically the SBS, we were there in mid-October/November 2001, which is when our American cousins were there (October 2001, not September!). Our colleagues from the SAS were also there, so your comments trying to make it out to be a purely American only operation, shows a great deal of disrespect and disservice to those that were fighting alongside the American SF. With that attitude it’s hardly surprising that a lot of countries distrust/hate narrow minded Americans especially those that believe, without reason, that they’re the only ones fighting the terrorists. Would you care to amend your incredibly inaccurate comments or do you prefer to stick with your biased, inaccurate BS? Even a cursory check with Wikipedia conform that none of us were in Ghanners prior to mid-October 2001, and for my unit (SBS) we were still there when the Tora Bora Bunfight kicked off - but I don’t recall seeing you there! Care to explain?
@@Lord_Ronin_The_Compassionate Odd, I also don't recall ever seeing you on a patrol or kicking something off. Say what you want about the Stan, it had 2 major players, none of them where the UK. We held it down, then when we shifted to Iraq, Canada took over as the main armored force for years. As far as narrow minded goes, that isn't correct. They where factually American dominated wars, yes we had a coalition that had many nations contributions, bit it doesn't change that the GWOT was an American campaign, started by Americans, because of an attack on America. Did I say you or your nation was crap? I don't think so. Did I say no other nation co tribute and sacrificed? Don't think I said that either. I spoke in fact. Factually the CIA and US SF rode on horses with the Northern Alliance. That is fact and it isn't up for debate.
@@thomasetter6056 Sorry mate but you’re an ignorant idiot. I know because I was there…….. I tried to advise you of your America-centric attitude being incorrect but you decided to double down on your ignorant claims. How does it feel to be just another Walter Mitty?
You need to pay attention to the lyrics more. It has nothing to do with Being bias towards Americans. Yes several other NATO allies fought in Afghanistan. But that part of the song is in reference to American Green Berets who were the first to boots on the ground in Afghanistan in 2001. Fighting alongside the Northern Alliance led by General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the troops, often riding on horseback, achieved important victories against the Taliban. As far as I know no other nations troops fought on horseback in Afghanistan. Again it has nothing to do with Bias towards Americans he's just simply singing history as he did throughout the song. The singer himself is Canadian and mentions Canadian Mounties and many other nations. Just listen, enjoy and revel in the history mentioned in the lyrics.
