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Tom takes the wheel and tells Joe about the time a man created a terror organization in order to get laid.

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The King of Spain hires a bunch of mercenaries to go to war and refuses to pay them leading to them sacking Rome for a paycheck.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rome-ravaged/

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/06/sack-rome-1527/

https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2023/05/the-darkest-day-in-the-history-of-the-swiss-guard/

Idan Sherer. A Bloody Carnival? Charles' V Soldiers and the Sack of Rome in 1527

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Scotland invades England with one of the largest armies in Scottish History and nearly wipe out their own government in the process.

Sources:

https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Marmion--A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070227045328/http://www.ourpasthistory.com/England/the-battle-of-flodden-field-or-branxton-moor

Peter Reese. Flooden: A Scottish Tragedy

Ida Taylor. The Life of James IV

William Welsh. Butchered At The Battle of Flodden. Military Heritage Magazine. Volume 22, No. 4

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In the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/

https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA381834.pdf

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkajhttps://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html

https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures

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