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** The resultant policy of Glasnost the Soviet Union enacted after the disaster is another example, but in the reverse. Turns out, when you can't even feed your own people, enacting a policy of total transparency with the press is not such a good idea after all.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog Operation Red Dog] (or as the press called it, the Bayou of Pigs) was a plot by a small group of White Supremacists to invade and take over the newly-independent island nation of Dominica. The small nation had only been independent from Britain for two years, they didn't have an army and their police force was mostly inexperienced volunteers. The plan seemed sound at first: With backing from Canadian mobsters and - possibly - David Duke himself, they would storm the island with a small arsenal, and then seize the armory and police station. Then they'd initiate the most important part of their plan, reinstating Dominica's exiled former ruler Patrick John, and in return for doing so, would open and fund a casino on the island, along with a cocaine smuggling operation. Of course, John planned to kill the would-be insurrectionists had it worked, which it did not; they ran into a problem such folks never do in movies, not considering the loyalty (or lack of it) of the boat captain they hired. When said captain realized his clients were Klansmen and Neo-Nazis (evidenced by the Nazi flags and Confederate flags among the cargo, along with enough illegal weapons for a gang war) he called the FBI and the would-be insurrections were arrested before they even got started.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Guaira_naval_attack Operation Gideon] was an attempted coup of Venezuela that got a little further, but ended in a disaster; none of them considered that 60 "mercenaries" didn't stand much chance against the 180,000 soldiers in the Venezuelan army; more than likely, they were tempted by the $212 million bounty placed on the heads of Nicolás Maduro and other Venezuelan government officials head by opposition leader Jordan Goudreau, who was likely at least [[The Man Behind The Man| partially orchestrating the attack]]. It would almost be funny had eight of the conspirators not been killed in the attempt.
* The Mongol Invasion of Japan. Kublai Khan was in such a rush that he ordered the Chinese boat builders to make a huge fleet (a fleet second only to the invasion fleet that launched the Invasion of Normandy) within a single year. The Chinese laborers had to supplement the sea-worthy boats with river boats that had no keel, and thus were unworthy for sea travel. Bad enough when you are crossing an ocean, even worse when that ocean is prone to violent storms and typhoons. The now-famous ''kamikaze'' lead to the single greatest loss of life in a disaster at sea in recorded history, with many of the over 3,000 ships sinking with most of their crew.
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