I would say not only surrendering after 4 days but then turning around and systematically murdering hundreds of thousands of your own countrymen on the orders of your conquerors makes you pretty bad at fighting wars.
You still have not refuted my main point.
I tackled the reasoning behind your main point, can't you read?
If you are actually convinced that ''fighting to the death !11one'' is what they should have done in that situation then you're a special snowflake. Around 200.000 Dutch civilians ended up losing their lives during WW2. Take Japan, your own previous example and the number goes up to 2.500.000 / 3.100.000. Funny enough even
if you look at the German invasion of the Netherlands, both nations ended up losing around 2000 soldiers (the Dutch like 2300),
while the Germans outnumbered the Dutch nearly 3 to 1. The Germans also lost over 225 aircraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_NetherlandsI am aware that the topic is about fighting wars, but can you truely judge a nation for giving up in that situation? Not giving up in a ''modern war'' can result in losing half your population, so bringing up the defeat during WW2 all the time is a bit lame imo. If you want to bash the Dutch' warring skills then there are plenty of other examples
However, to go back on topic, the Dutch also survived against all odds in the past
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dutch-WarMaurice modernised the Dutch army during the 80 years war making ''the Dutch army the most modern in the Europe of his time.''
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maurice-stadholder-of-The-Netherlandsand there are many smaller examples of the Dutch doing well during times of war, the Dutch navy was arguably the strongest navy during the early 17th century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_the_NetherlandsSome battles the Dutch fought with minimal casualties or while (heavily) outnumbered:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heiligerlee_(1568)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leidenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gibraltar_(1607)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Downshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Soundhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Days%27_Battlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_MedwayOfcourse there are plenty of blunders too, but it goes without saying that the ''best'' nations at fighting wars have those too.
In conclusion, saying the Netherlands are arguably the worst at fighting wars, given their history, their geographical position, their population, seems wrong to me. Especially when you concider that 'we' were once concidered the most powerful nation in the world, despite our size.
That is my (bias) opinion
Now stop triggering me pls
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And we were good at fighting Napoleonic Wars!!!