Who thought machine guns would work on emus?The true story of Australia's most absurd military failure.

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Oh, god... really?

This is the story of a real-life military blunder. In 1932, the Australian army deployed soldiers to combat a population of 20,000 emus destroying farmland. The birds, however, proved to be surprisingly brilliant tacticians. They scattered into small, fast-moving groups, rendering the machine guns useless. The operation ended in public ridicule and a clear victory for the emus, cementing a strange but true chapter in military history.