The worst armies in history

The spanish army of Cuba after years of war was well equiped, fierce and veteran althought very tired, this is clear when anybody study the battles against the americans wich wasn't a walk by the garden; the problems there was the navy and after the defeat of the navy the impossibility of aid the army in the island, so althought the army wanted fight and could do it for many time was a lost war since the beginning, without the fleet the resistance was impossible. And of course without money Spain can't rebuild the fleet or build submarines, one of the options was not fight open naval battle but only travel between the Peninsula and the Caribe fighting only in superiority, this was possible but the admiral Cervera was stupid.

That is true Ponce but changing your point of view: poor soldiers who fought under those incompetents!! Althought after 1860 the level of the spanish armies grew lightly his situation was equally horrible, the war on the Rif was a madness and only after the disaster of Annual the things changed, in all those years the army was without discussion in the group of the crapy armies. But after 1925, and over certain basis of the past because all in all the war gave experience, the spanish army that was fighting in North �frica quickly became a trully monster and i haven't doubts was one of the betters of the world. This army will win the Civil War in vastly inferiority of numbers and resources (at the beginning) and was who provided the men for the formidable Blue Division.

Edited by Ikki - 17-Sep-2007 at 19:31

Non-European armies facing European/Colonial armies.  Bad track record