Allanea wrote:And brutal, violent hazing is known to be conducive to making people better fighters-
Oh wait.
It seems to happen regardless.
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by The Kievan People » Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:19 am
Allanea wrote:And brutal, violent hazing is known to be conducive to making people better fighters-
Oh wait.
by Pharthan » Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:55 am
Allanea wrote:
Wartime training typically gets worse because there's less resources to train people and less time to train them.
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by The Kievan People » Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:00 am
by Imperializt Russia » Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:41 am
The Kievan People wrote:German training was originally like two years long.
Also,Lamadia wrote:dangerous socialist attitude
Imperializt Russia wrote:I'm English, you tit.
by The Greater Aryan Race » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:22 am
Imperializt Russia wrote:Wasn't that before the re-armament phase where they wanted an intensely-trained hard core of forces that could rapidly train conscripts?
Imperium Sidhicum wrote:So, uh... Is this another one of those threads where everyone is supposed to feel outraged and circle-jerk in agreement of how injust and terrible the described incident is?
Because if it is, I'm probably going to say something mean and contrary just to contradict the majority.
by Imperializt Russia » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:24 am
Also,Lamadia wrote:dangerous socialist attitude
Imperializt Russia wrote:I'm English, you tit.
by The Greater Aryan Race » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:39 am
Imperializt Russia wrote:As I recall, the intention was a force of 100,000 highly-trained volunteers (conscription was presumably banned along with everything else), and the idea was if they ever had to go to war they'd just start conscription anyway.
Imperium Sidhicum wrote:So, uh... Is this another one of those threads where everyone is supposed to feel outraged and circle-jerk in agreement of how injust and terrible the described incident is?
Because if it is, I'm probably going to say something mean and contrary just to contradict the majority.
by Gig em Aggies » Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:53 am
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by Austria-Bohemia-Hungary » Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:00 am
Gig em Aggies wrote:Just a simple clarification is it or will it be feasible to bring a military submarine with super cavitation abilities across the Pacific in under 2 hour ?
Reason being I read a story telling about how the Chinese "supposedly" have in the works a sub that could do just that.
PS I know it's very highly unlikely but it just sounded weird
by Dostanuot Loj » Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:09 am
Husseinarti wrote:yeah you can have the bestest most awesomeest aryan child army maneuvers ever however some d-bag from the bronx with his map-grid artillery system will be able to call for fire on karl and his band of plucky, quirky youth of kiddies within minutes of them stepping on the field of battle
its all fun and games until 36 105mm M101A1s shell your position with WP and HE and you watch your best friend jager von smithenhem get blown to bits
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by Gallan Systems » Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:24 am
Allanea wrote:Gallan Systems wrote:The fascist powers had the best training standards of the war and almost entirely as a result of their political philosophies.
The USA was near the bottom even by liberal democracy standards, American soldiers were near incompetent morally and physically, if their ability as infantrymen says anything.
IJA training was terrible.
It included such gems as...
1. Literally stabbing soldiers with sharp sticks to teach them to injure pain and injury in the name of the Emperor.
2. Literally refusing to teach officers about Japan's defeats.
3. Instructing officers that unsheathing your sword and shouting Banzai had the firepower equivalent of a dozen men with rifles. [Again, literally.]
The fap that fascist nations [and especially japan] had to DEFEAT THE ENEMY WITH SHEER IRON WILLL AND BRAVERY lost time and time again to a hail of mortar rounds.
by Gallan Systems » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:01 am
by The Akasha Colony » Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:40 pm
Gig em Aggies wrote:Just a simple clarification is it or will it be feasible to bring a military submarine with super cavitation abilities across the Pacific in under 2 hour ?
Reason being I read a story telling about how the Chinese "supposedly" have in the works a sub that could do just that.
PS I know it's very highly unlikely but it just sounded weird
by Kazarogkai » Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:12 pm
Gallan Systems wrote:The fascist powers had the best training standards of the war and almost entirely as a result of their political philosophies.
The USA was near the bottom even by liberal democracy standards, American soldiers were near incompetent morally and physically, if their ability as infantrymen says anything.
by North Arkana » Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:21 pm
Kazarogkai wrote:Gallan Systems wrote:The fascist powers had the best training standards of the war and almost entirely as a result of their political philosophies.
The USA was near the bottom even by liberal democracy standards, American soldiers were near incompetent morally and physically, if their ability as infantrymen says anything.
By facist you just mean Japan, which was arguably fascist, and Germany and not counting Italy of course right?
by Gallan Systems » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:12 pm
Kazarogkai wrote:Gallan Systems wrote:The fascist powers had the best training standards of the war and almost entirely as a result of their political philosophies.
The USA was near the bottom even by liberal democracy standards, American soldiers were near incompetent morally and physically, if their ability as infantrymen says anything.
By facist you just mean Japan, which was arguably fascist, and Germany and not counting Italy of course right?
by Kazarogkai » Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:57 pm
Pharthan wrote:Allanea wrote:
Hazing exists in every military culture.
But sane countries try to reduce it to less dangerous forms, not legitimize and encourage it.
Insane countries try to rid it all together to the point of only allowing supervised "hazing," and eliminating anything and everything that could be construed as hazing.
I may or may not be talking about America.Allanea wrote:
Wartime training typically gets worse because there's less resources to train people and less time to train them.
This is actually one of the things America gets gloriously right. They capitalize on finding skilled individuals in wartime and send them back as instructors. You may have fewer resources, but you wind up with highly skilled people with as-relevant-as-possible information, skills, and experience, which beats out a lot of the negatives of wartime training.
This is also why you see fewer American aces pilots, tankers, lauded snipers, et cetera. Germans used them as role-models for propaganda, and America pulled them early on to ensure their survival so they could train the following groups of soldiers.
This (and superb artillery) are often lauded as why America won WWII. Better trained soldier instead of better motivated soldiers.
The best training, hands down, is actual experience. For infantry, this has the possible and largely negative side-effect of "death."
by Gallan Systems » Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:14 pm
Pharthan wrote:Allanea wrote:
Hazing exists in every military culture.
But sane countries try to reduce it to less dangerous forms, not legitimize and encourage it.
Insane countries try to rid it all together to the point of only allowing supervised "hazing," and eliminating anything and everything that could be construed as hazing.
I may or may not be talking about America.Allanea wrote:
Wartime training typically gets worse because there's less resources to train people and less time to train them.
This is actually one of the things America gets gloriously right. They capitalize on finding skilled individuals in wartime and send them back as instructors. You may have fewer resources, but you wind up with highly skilled people with as-relevant-as-possible information, skills, and experience, which beats out a lot of the negatives of wartime training.
This is also why you see fewer American aces pilots, tankers, lauded snipers, et cetera. Germans used them as role-models for propaganda, and America pulled them early on to ensure their survival so they could train the following groups of soldiers.
This (and superb artillery) are often lauded as why America won WWII. Better trained soldier instead of better motivated soldiers.
The best training, hands down, is actual experience. For infantry, this has the possible and largely negative side-effect of "death."
by Gallan Systems » Sun Jul 24, 2016 5:47 pm
by The Kievan People » Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:18 pm
by Pharthan » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:20 pm
The Kievan People wrote:It must be hard to go through life being so wrong.
Gallan Systems wrote:
Americans didn't do this in WW2, though. Or Korea. Or Vietnam. You're confusing them with the Germans.
The US Army trained its soldiers in WW2 for about a month (four weeks) and then sent them to cover some very basic infantry training. Eventually, it got to the point where soldiers were given four weeks of cursory instruction in battle and sent to the front.
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