Who are the Greatest warriors in history

[JKU]

The Teutoberg forest is just one example.They won thatbattle simply becuase of their fighting skills.The Romans were excellant fighter in OPEN battle and thier formations but in the Forest with more enclosed fighting and more personal skils needed they were wiped out by the tribes of northwest Europe.

Please. No it wasn't, it was simply treachery on part of Arminius. The Romans were not marching in a disciplined formation, marching w/o wearing armor, unprepared for any attack simply because Arminius was supposed to be a Roman ally but was in reality a treacherous enemy. The battle was simply a German ambush/massacre of unsuspecting, unready to fight Roman soldiers.
Today’s equivalent would be if a few battalions of German Leopard 2s rolled up to Wiesbaden Airfield and started blasting away at US troops.

 

[The Alani Dragon]

My choice would have been the group which contained steppe nomads. In other words other group of warriors.

 

[American Idiot]

Without personal opinion:
There are two definitions of soldiers:
- His relation to death...
- And for what he it makes...
Also there is " an art of fight "...
From this also is defined - what it is the soldier...
Also there is a culture of education of soldiers... And culture of their behaviour...

going by your definitions, the Samurai are up there with the greatest, IMO

 

[American Idiot]

Hard to say if there is really any single greatest group of warriors

 

[toyomotor]

Out of all of them, the mongols and the romans achieved a lot, so i say the mongols.

Jack, I agree with you. The Mongols conquered most of Europe, all of China, parts of South East Asia as far as Java. They were fierce "Winter War" specialists, expert bowman, horsemen and tacticians. That they were united gave them a great advantage over the "city states" of Europe. Under the rule of Ogedei Khan, they gained a lot from the Chinese culture, and, had successive rulers from the time of Kublai maintained Genghis Khans vision, the, in my opinion, could have ruled all of the known world.

 

[Aberdeen]

The battle exploits of the Mongols are quite impressive, but what really impresses me is how this supposedly primitive group of steppe nomads created a well organized empire, with the rule of law, religious tolerance, a well developed road system and postal system, a currency system, etc. Of course, they also wiped out whole populations in order to create their empire, but the fact that they had the technology to do it (including large siege engines) is impressive. And of course most pastoralists seem to have a genius for organized military warfare that's probably related to their herding skills. But what makes the Mongols much more impressive than any other pastoral group that created a large empire is not just that they operated on such a large scale, but that they quickly developed the machinery necessary to hold an empire together. It doesn't matter to me who they stole their knowledge from (presumably mostly from the Chinese), what impresses me is that they knew what they had to do to keep what they conquered. Of course, in the end, tribalism is probably the most important of the things that defeated them, but the results of their empire had lasting affects, just like the result of Alexander's much more temporary creation.

 

[stefco]

Serbs are the greatest warriors in history.

 

[Idun]

As individual warriors, tactics, techniques, born and groomed mentally for battle.
The Samurai just are in their own class, the total commitment to being a perfect and willing to die at any time.

 

[Icebreaker]

I have seen that God caused the sun of empire to shine in the mansion of the Turks, and turned the heavenly spheres around their dominion, and named them Turk, and gave them sovereignty, and made them kings of the age, and placed the reins of the people of the time in their hands.

 

[Aberdeen]

I have seen that God caused the sun of empire to shine in the mansion of the Turks, and turned the heavenly spheres around their dominion, and named them Turk, and gave them sovereignty, and made them kings of the age, and placed the reins of the people of the time in their hands.

It's good that you can consider the question objectively, Icebreaker.

 

[Idun]

It's good that you can consider the question objectively, Icebreaker.

Analytical and objective is not a big thing in those parts, oratory, yelling and hand gestures makes you right.

 

[kamani]

It holds no value to win with superior numbers or weapons. A great warrior is one that wins against the material odds. So choosing great warriors becomes battle specific. Some of the greatest that I know of are: Greek Coalition in "Greece vs Persia", Hannibal Army in "Carthage vs Rome", Skanderbeg Army in "Albanians vs Ottoman Empire", Napoleon in any of his battles except Russia, German Coalition in "Germans vs Huns", Polish Winged Hussars in "Austria vs Ottoman Empire".

 

[Icebreaker]

Relax guys. It's just a quote from Mahmud Al-Kasghari (11th century scholar).

 

[Echetlaeus]

I believe that Greeks should have been in the poll as well.

 

[Fire Haired]

I believe that Greeks should have been in the poll as well.

Depends which ones. I don't know that much about ancient history, but i think Alexander the Great's armies and the Spartens should defintley be on the poll.

 

[Echetlaeus]

Depends which ones. I don't know that much about ancient history, but i think Alexander the Great's armies and the Spartens should defintley be on the poll.

Greeks in general would be fine. We have proven ourselves once again in WW2 when we beat the Italians, a far more powerful country than small Greece. Also, the fact that Hitler's powers came to suppress us made the Nazis lose time and start the Russian campaign in the winter, a horrible mistake as it was proven.

Point is: Greeks powerful in the past and nowadays.

Remember: Salamis, Marathon, Thermopylae, Punic Wars in Magna Graecia (which must be again Greek), we fought during the Byzantine times --- in the beginning as the East Roman Empire, afterwards almost Greek empire which lasted 1000 years ---, then the War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Balkan Wars (I and II, winners in both along with Serbia and Bulgaria (at first)), WWI, the Asia Minor Expedition (we were so close to win, should the Soviets have not assisted Kemal Ataturk), our navy has never lost a battle, we are the ΜΕΓΑ ΤΟ ΤΗΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΣ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ (i.e., The Great Nation that Rules the Seas), WWII etc. Generally we have fought many wars breh.

Actually nowadays I am reading Cyrus Anabasis and the history of the Ten Thousand by Xenophon. You must read that to understand what it means to be a Greek.

Here is Magna Graecia (in lower Italy):

 

[LeBrok]

Greeks in general would be fine. We have proven ourselves once again in WW2 when we beat the Italians, a far more powerful country than small Greece. Also, the fact that Hitler's powers came to suppress us made the Nazis lose time and start the Russian campaign in the winter, a horrible mistake as it was proven.

Operation Barbarossa (German: Fall Barbarossa, literally "Case Barbarossa"), beginning 22 June 1941, was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa

 

[Fire Haired14]

Greeks in general would be fine. We have proven ourselves once again in WW2 when we beat the Italians, a far more powerful country than small Greece. Also, the fact that Hitler's powers came to suppress us made the Nazis lose time and start the Russian campaign in the winter, a horrible mistake as it was proven.

Point is: Greeks powerful in the past and nowadays.

Remember: Salamis, Marathon, Thermopylae, Punic Wars in Magna Graecia (which must be again Greek), we fought during the Byzantine times --- in the beginning as the East Roman Empire, afterwards almost Greek empire which lasted 1000 years ---, then the War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Balkan Wars (I and II, winners in both along with Serbia and Bulgaria (at first)), WWI, the Asia Minor Expedition (we were so close to win, should the Soviets have not assisted Kemal Ataturk), our navy has never lost a battle, we are the ΜΕΓΑ ΤΟ ΤΗΣ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΣ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ (i.e., The Great Nation that Rules the Seas), WWII etc. Generally we have fought many wars breh.

Actually nowadays I am reading Cyrus Anabasis and the history of the Ten Thousand by Xenophon. You must read that to understand what it means to be a Greek.

Here is Magna Graecia (in lower Italy):

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Greeks have certainly changed culturally, militarily, etc. many times throughout the last 4,000 years, so it is hard to put their fighters throughout history in one category. I am sure in many differnt eras Greeks have had victories and defeats like everyone else, and I don't know where to rank them in the world.

 

[Nobody1]

Who do you think are the greatest warriors in history

The Austrian soldiers at Karánsebes 1788;

 

[LeBrok]

The Austrian soldiers at Karánsebes 1788;

That's actually tragicomical story, I've never heard of. Who needs enemy with army like this?