I can't believe I am saying this but, in Hitler's defence his first plan was not to take Moscow, he always saw the oil as the prize, it was his chief of Staff Halder that took forces away from the Army Group South and turned Army Group Center into the strongest thrust.
I would add the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan is a modern epic fail, bled them white, never took the country, eventually brought down Communist Russia completely while also creating Islamic extremism that sucked the US into an equally pointless war in the region that has bled them white and may have set the table for their downfall.
A sort of twofer epic fail
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