The Great Emu War
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The Great Emu War
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November 1932. Western Australia. The Australian military mobilizes with Lewis machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to face a devastating enemy: 20,000 emus with an unfortunate taste for wheat.
What followed was one of the most embarrassing defeats in military history—not because the enemy had superior tactics or firepower, but because they were six-foot-tall birds who refused to cooperate with being shot.
This is the story of the Great Emu War: how World War I veterans armed with machine guns were systematically outsmarted by flightless birds, why the operation became an international laughingstock, and what it reveals about humanity's often disastrous attempts to wage war against nature.
Spoiler: The emus won. Decisively.
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