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[World War Z novel] What were each country’s version of Yonkers?

Yonkers was a horrible military disaster for the United States and prompted the government and military to retreat towards the Western US (the Battle of Yonkers didn’t make a lot of realistic sense to me but World War Z is the same novel that has zombies moving in hordes at the bottom of the ocean, so whatever). 

This begs the question, what were each country’s version of Yonkers? South Korea had the Battle of Incheon but what about Japan, or Germany, or the UK,  Canada, Brazil, etc.?
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In many ways, Yonkers was *everyone's* "Yonkers". It was a big, messy, horrible failure that made it clear that the tactics and gear for the last war weren't going to work. If America, the MFing patent holders on "shock and awe" couldn't shock or awe this enemy, **no one was going to do it**. Before then, people still thought that this was still a controllable situation, and that drastic measures weren't needed. After that, anyone who tried to argue for conventional combined arms warfare got the screenshots from Yonkers shoved in their face. It was the wake-up call. With limited exceptions (the Israelis, individual thinkers like Knight, Warbrunn and Redeker, and possibly the North Koreans and top level Chinese politicians), Yonkers was *the* "oh fuck" moment.