Greatest military unit ever

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Was thinking about this when browsing Wiki - who has been the greatest military unit of all time, in terms of influence, victories, world impact etc. When I say unit it could be an entire empire army right down to an individual unit or squad. Including quasi political units in this as well (i.e. Mossad).

This might not even be possible to evaluate, or be very much personal opinion but thought it was an interesting topic.

For my own part I'd have to say top of the list is The Roman Empire - I don't think an army has ever seen as much success either before or since, in view that they had to actually militarily conquer territories in a time when a lot of places were very harsh and some impressive enemies conquered - Gauls, Huns, Greeks, Egyptians etc.

Others I would include would be...

Mongols at the time of Genghis Khan (shows the importance of cavalry and conquered most of the Far and Middle East)
Vikings in the late Dark Ages (more raiders than anything but universally feared)
Germany at the height of the Blitzkreig (for pure power, speed and introducing a new type of warfare)
Greece at the time of Alexander
British Empire 1700-1900 (for sheer amount of world domination compared to country size)

NB this refers to organisations or armies of men - NOT military hardware/weapons!
 
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Agree Roman, personally i think the phalanx formation possibly the best formation any military unit can adopt with huge discipline is the most successful EVER to create a nearly impenetrable defense. (guns excluded)

just got to show how good it was, it was adopted by the army of ancient Macedon considered to be among the greatest military forces of the ancient world, and was later lead by Alexander the Great
 
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I guess as far as reputation and fear goes, then the Christian orders probably rank quite high. The Templars and Hospitallers during the Crusades and the Teutonic order a hundred years later.
 
Okay getting a bit off track talking about hardware - we're talking units as in organisations or armies of men. Think Romans, think Zulus and you're on the right track. :)
 
KNiVES said:
Israeli Army - more out of necessity though. And they aren't nice guys either.
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I was going to say them.

Wouldnt want to be fighting close combat with them thats for sure:eek:

Plus anyone that can defeat and push back 4 or 5 nations trying to kill you at one time deserve respect:cool:
 
Random Guy said:
Hizbullah, a guerilla unit that kicked the $hit out of the Israeli Army last year.
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Actually it was more the Politics of it all;)

Israel would Flatten them and then it would be OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! when Hezbolah ran off and hid in the citys and high population areas.

If you kill a Hezbolah fighter they take the guns and ammo off them and then they just magicly become an unarmed Civillian and get classed as a civillian death.
That one of the biggest problems with fighting Guerilla armys.

Isreal did push them back to the river then the UN stepped in and Isreal went back while Peace keepers kept them seperated from each other
 
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