"We Know Better, Trust Us, Not Logic" - Percy "Hobo" Hobart by The Fat Electrician - Reaction 

Omar Bradley's reaction is a perfect example of why our military became the best: willing to take creative ideas that work, even if they look stupid.

Never underestimate the ability of leadership to mess things up entirely. Especially those who have a complex

This is why my new favorite saying is “war is won by the army that’s the least dis functional cluster fluck”.

i feel your pain old man. not going to lie this story had me equal parts mad/amazed/dumfounded/astounded that we won the war. between this story and the Mark 14 Torpedo story by Drachinifel. like how the hell did we win then i remember God is a comedian and sends men like Percy "Hobo" Hobart and many other "anti-heroes" to show you how it's done.

My grandfather served in the Rats, wouldnt hear a bad word said about "Hobo" but never had a nice thing to say about Montgomery. He couldn't stand the man, even went as far as to say he wouldnt piss on him if he was on fire unless he'd been drinking grain alcohol first.

One of the main reasons the Germans get credit for the Blitzkrieg is that they were the first to visibly use it to great effect in the field. So it's not so much a case of making the Germans out to be scarier and more competent than they were, it's just that they actually put it into practice and refine it. This is because, while the British Army was mired in entrenched cliques and ultra-conservative viewpoints about war and how it should be conducted, Germany was very much not at the time. Hitler was an experienced former enlisted soldier who loathed the old German Imperial Officer Corps' rigidity and stubborn refusal to embrace new ways of fighting, and blamed Germany's loss in the First World War at least partially on the blinkered stubbornness of the old hidebound Aristocratic officers. So Hitler embraced radical new ideas about warfare, and encouraged all kinds of experiments and projects to find newer, more effective battlefield tactics and strategies. He also embraced a number of rising stars in the military that a more conservative establishment like the British Army's would have stifled and suppressed, like Guderian and Donitz. Basically, after World War 1, the British military establishment decided that their point was made and that all was right in the world. They still innovated, but it was a more careful process hounded by internal politics from entrenched interests. Germany's military and political establishment, on the other hand, took their defeat as a clear sign that rapid and radical change was needed, and acted accordingly. They still had their own stupid cliques and internal political shenanigans, but it was less pervasive and stifling in the German military of the time.

It's been interesting to me about how many people don't know about Hobart and his "funnies". I learned about them when I was in my teenage years and reading a lot of history.

21:35 he missed the ARK tank, which is essentially a Churchill tank with no turret and over the track guards is a mini bridge.

Yup. The Crocodile was the Allied equivalent in sheer pucker factor to the Tiger Panzer.

"100% clinicaly stupid" might just be one of my new favorite phrases, thank you Sir! And then you follow it up with "Lord preserve us from braindead behavior!" Yeah, I'm subscribing here and now!

The reason why there are so many historical reports of people who should know better purposely not doing so because of some personal standing is because that's the story of humanity People in Power don't like Change because Change may make them superfluous and the current situation is quite comfortable thank you That's why War and Other Crisis are accelerants for development in the short term, because they force need of change, meanwhile recovery there from then often is spent establishing the tools of power (political, economical, sociological etc.) which promotes "stability" because Change is risky and thus seen as dangerous Sociology and Anthropology are fun

going back to Jake McNasty, that explains why his expected reinforcements didn't show up. They were bogged down at the beach. If they had the equipment they wanted then they'd have eventually encountered Jake at his bridge.

The story of this man the people under his comand and of course his tanks must be brought to the minds of more people. And you good sir are another great step towards that mission ... thank you 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

First time I've heard mention of COPPist (Combined Operations Pilot Parties) outside of what I read and heard in books. An organisation which was an offshoot (one of many offshoots) from the original SBS founded by Roger Courtney from with the commando structure. Also blitzkrieg as we know it wasn't at all a new concept within the german army. It was started out with the Prussians look at that Gustavus Adolphus did during the 30 year war and implemented into their military strategy called bewegungskrieg, or just movement war. All Heinz Guderian really did was replaced the horses with tanks and give the infantry motor vehicles.

I love hearing these kinds of stories about these military Legends! Especially the obscure ones that no one talks about, but should talk about! It makes e happy knowing that The Fat Electrician is sharing these stories with us and giving these people the recognition they are due! He is THEE best teller of these stories! I believe we still use a modern version of the Sherman Crab tank nowadays. I think it's called a "Mine Flail" or something like that. I'm not sure, I'm not in the military. But, I remember watching something about it on the History Channel. I think it was on a Modern Marvels episode about tanks.

I knew of him before i watched this, there was a section of a book on d day that spoke of his efforts

If it looks stupid but works, then it ain't stupid.

I knew of the funny tanks of World War II. I learned of them as an extra curricular project while I was still in secondary school here in Australia. We actually didn’t cover it in school, but thanks to this extra curricular project I did, I was able to learn quite a bit about, the flail tank, the spindle tank that put down roads, the flamethrower tank and the bridge tank. The duplex drive tank was pretty well known and had been covered in class, but none of the others.

"We have this weird thing that we do in Western Civilization where we make our enemies appear more powerful and more competent then they actually are." -Old Man Even the Russian Military?

Necessity IS the mother of invention 😮🎉

Ok im ngl that quack was perfectly timed🤣

Fresh of the Grill, Hi Boss

He sounds like England's version of America's Gen. Patton. Very few 'Effective Leaders' win popularity contests, ESPECIALLY from any politician/military equivalent that fears them...

He & his wife have such an awesome marriage that they can rag on each other non-stop & I'm here for it.

This man needs to be a Servant and his tanks need to be a part of the Advance Wars Canon.

Percy truly was a modern officer.

I love how cos always have an option but no experience

Your reaction is priceless and mirrors my opinion on idiots.

9:40 It's not weird. It's probably dumb, but it makes sense in a twisted way. It's bragging rights. It's the difference between catching a foot long fish and catching a fish "this big!". It's like "We literally fought Superman to a standstill, how awesome are we?" when in reality they fought Lois Lane. Also yes, morons are everywhere, even (possibly especially) the military. Not just in America either.

Remember, it isn't stupid if it works. Yeah a lot of Hobart's modifications looked silly and goofy, but a lot of people got wrecked thinking "Ha, look how stupid that looks."

If you really want to see how widespread the 'old boys club' military mentality can be, watch Fat Electrician's take on the DeHavilland Mosquito. There's a twist at the end that made me facepalm hard eough to pop my neck.

He Hasn't look up the video of how we got our radar and the invention of Bugs Bunny.

12:25 you will be happy to hear that we learned nothing.

You have done a least one video from Drachinifel. The Battle of Samar which is a really good video. May I make a couple of suggestions. If you are looking for something that is a little lighter in tone than The Battle of Samar video I suggest Drach's videos, The Great White Fleet - The Party is On and A ship that refused to die, The USS Marblehead. They are around a half hour so a little longer than his normal videos.

'Blitzkrieg' is basically a myth, it's just combined-arms warfare. the only reason we call it Blitzkrieg is because the British Propaganda Office made it up (along with the idea of the Polish charging tanks with cavalry and such) because it made the Germans seem scarier to drive up recruitment. Germany themselves never used the term in any official capacity, and it was seen as ridiculous by higher-ups in the reich.

7:14 Quick comment on Rome and naval warfare. There's another key piece to the puzzle you might not be aware of. As you say, Rome had crap boats, but shoving a gang plank onto their boat didn't make it better. The improvement to the Roman navy mostly came about when a Carthaginian ship became grounded on a shoreline and the Romans captured it. Conveniently, it was constructed with every piece labelled like an ancient piece of IKEA furniture. The Romans reverse engineered it and went to work. Within a year they had over 300 ships built like the Carthaginian ones which had been whipping their asses.

To answer your frustration with people in positions of leadership being total petty idiots, its simple: That is humanity in a nutshell you either do good for your men and country because you really care about them and recognition is not even on your primary list of priorities or are like those idiots who only care about doing stuff if they are going to look good by doing it and are getting recognition for it. Even if it means letting people suffer the consequences of your inaction/ineptitude because you think you wouldn't get enough recognition!

U should do Patan in battle 360

This is normal get used to it. 12:24

I hope you do a video of fat electricians Sergeant Reckless video

Disliking because they dont like you despite your talents. yeah, that was my military career. at meps in late 1997, i scored a perfect 99 on all 4 sections faster than anyone ever at the denver meps station. at my first USAF space command satcom unit, i achieved "100% site trained" faster than anyone in the 35 year history of that unit. before i could finish my 4 years of enlistment, i was discharged because i was autistic and had issues with command. note: i was HIRED because i was autistic. i was never awarded my journeyman status, which i achieved in record time at that unit as well. i was even put in for a USAF form 1000, which is where you nominate someone for a major award for making a new way of doing things. i fixed my MILSTAR satcom terminal and made it the first "mission capable" MILSTAR unit on the entire planet, to the point where Raytheon asked me how i fixed it. i was put in by my sgt but i didnt win. i was happy to get accolades from other MILSTAR stations, including several navy vessels, on my fix action that allowed THEIR units to go mission capable. when bureaucratic BS gets in the way of good people doing good work. that was my military career. i ended my career while finalizing testing for a mobile combat weather station that is still used today for front line combat paratroopers, where they drop in, deploy the unit, and it relays weather all along the battlefront. the weather channel did a special years ago called "weather in combat" where they talked about my hardware.

When you "quacked", your ran off. Just thought you'd like to know.

Pride kills, mate. One of the oldest lessons of life. There's a reason why it stands apart from the other Deadly Sins as being the only "diabolical" sin (the others are considered "animal" or "bestial," depending on your regional dialect, due to their being based on the warping of bodily needs).

I just subscribed.

Only issues with this video was it totally ignores the fact the blitzkrieg wasn't just tanks, that he actually didn't go toe to toe with anyone, and personally ignores Patton who had been screaming about tanks the minute he saw them.

You look unamused and a little pissy in the image for this video. Bad editing. That's the worst way to draw viewers.