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In 1932, Australia faced an enemy unlike anything the military had ever trained for: giant, fast, unstoppable birds.
This is the unbelievable true story of how a modern army lost a war… against emus.

During the Great Depression, struggling farmers in Western Australia watched helplessly as nearly 20,000 emus invaded their wheat fields, destroying crops and tearing through fences. With no solutions left, they begged the government for help. The response?
Send the army.

Armed with World War I Lewis machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, Major Meredith and his men launched a military campaign that would soon become one of the most bizarre chapters in history. But the emus—tough, fast, unpredictable—didn’t behave like soldiers. They scattered, resisted bullets, outran trucks, and turned the entire operation into a national embarrassment.

Why did the Australian military fail?
How did the emus outsmart trained soldiers?
And why were ordinary farmers far more effective than the army itself?

In this video, we dive deep into the causes, battles, failures, and strange aftermath of the Great Emu War, a real event so absurd it feels like satire—yet every detail is historically documented.

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