Strange beliefs/misunderstands about militaries

Does anybody know of any strange shit that people have believed about foreign armies? For example, some Afghans think that you have to kill a family member as part of your initiation into the US Marines.

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North Koreans are told the same thing about ROK marines.

The nips thought Ghurkas ate their kills. Probably not too far from the truth.

Dutch people believe they don't need an army because EU will save them.

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I think this rumor started with the Japs in WW2.

Some Americans believe their military is run by competent, trustworthy people.

Lots of Afghans apparently thought (maybe still think) Americans were returning Russians

My country people actually beliefs that north korean military is something to be afraid off

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Worked well last time.

For the koreans and 2ID, it is. 2ID and the south korean military isn't supposed to be able to defeat the norks if they want to invade sk, they're there to delay them for 2/3 days, long enough for the rest of the US forces they're going to send to mobilize and get there.

>Worked well last time.
Actually they all got collectively punished starved to death/near death (mainly killed kids and the elderly) by the Nazis as an act of deliberate considered collective punishment for smiling at paratroopers in Arnhem. Another forgotten pointless Nazi mass war crime against civilians.

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I was being sarcastic lad.

Same shit in spain.

americans believe their military is there to protect them rather than israel

Its even worse. In spain people truly believe that if you are a pacifist, nobody will attack you. Tht having an army is being a warmonger

We're having more of those in Switzerland. Apparently if you're neutral no one attacks you.

It's also the same people that rant about western countries constantly being at war and blaming westerners for making Africa/the Middle East a shithole.

the truth here is that if these countries were wiped from the map, nothing of value would be lost.

it's like a depressed person engaging in risky behavior that might kill them. they already know there is nothing about them worth preserving so they throw their life away doing something stupid. nations undergo the same process and within a few decades these countries will simply cease to exist, thankfully.

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it's amusing that the highest support comes from both the tiny countries that wouldn't exist if nature was allowed to take its course, and the countries which would actually form the core of the EU army because they possess a functioning military.

Can you fucking imagine how brainwashed you have to be?
It amazes me how so many people I've met from these countries are genuinely happy, healthy, and well-fed and take it so enormously for granted.

Also weird how it shifts so much in the Baltics

>After the national railways complied with the exiled Dutch government's appeal for a railway strike starting September 1944 to further the Allied liberation efforts, the German administration (under Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Friedrich Christiansen) retaliated by placing an embargo on all food transports to the western Netherlands.
Sounds justified to me.

Finns believe that Russia is a credible threat.

Fuck off ahmed

There’s also the belief that the Oakleys every US grunt wears for some reason are actually x-ray goggles. Apparently a lot of Afghans got pissed at people looking at their wives or whatever cause they thought the glasses were seeing through clothes.

NiBBas from first-world countries seem to think conscription is a one-time thing that you completely forget about afterwards.

After serving your mandatory time, you become a reservist (read: cucked little serf) and have to periodically attend refresher training until you're an old-ass man.

>have to periodically attend refresher training
Is that the case with all countries with conscription?

>he didn't the X-ray Oakleys

Do the Afghans hate fighting the marines more than the Army?

>Jihadis are all incompetent goat fuckers

Let's dehumanize our enemy and ignore the fact that they've survived and passed down generational warfare experience against vastly "superior" forces.

Litterally why every single American casualty happened.

I heard some americans that are fighting in a rock and afghanistan think that they are fighting for their freedom

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Doesn't everyone? They may munch crayons, but they exist solely to kill, rape, and plunder. This seems to be a general mentality of marine units, even outside the U.S.

You realize a single counterexample would disprove this, right? Generalities without qualifiers are a bitch.

what you dont seem to understand is that the only arabs we fought against were either

A. conscripts lacking equipment and training that were terrorized by their officers and higher ups and pushed into the front lines
I cant blame those guys they were stuck between a rock and hard place

B. Some radical "freedom fighters" without any skills logic or and funding.

I met some arabs while working with european armies (spain, france, belgium) even do most were second or third generation immigrants they all had the same level of professionalism and skills of their respective armies

nah that's USMC propaganda. They're not any tougher than the Army, just a better PR department

To be fair, they're definitely better at the raping part, plundering might be theirs too.

Armies are for protecting countries and peoples
Actually armies exist only to protect rich and government

I mean the Norks aren't good, there's just a shitload of them. All North Korea does is sell meth, print counterfeit $100 bills, and conscript the fuck out of its people, whereas the ROK is actually interested in having a functioning state.

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Not even remotely, considering their history

fingols never won a war

Really? I was expecting a Poland level of support, considering the rest of EE

When I was young I believed that if the general in the army wanted to take over the country he could do it by ordering his soldiers to kill/capture the government.

Believing people who have a political point of view that differs from your own to be "brainwashed" says more about your own intelligence than theirs.

I bet you can't discuss anything with people who don't agree with you without sperging out and getting angy.

Depends.
In Russia, you stay in reserve till you are 45 (60 if it's a full mobilization during a war), and formally you can be recruited for a two-month long course every three years.
In practice it doesn't affect regular conscripts, only trained military officers and specialists who left the Army. Only about 5000 people get called from reserve every year.
The government also compensates the salary you missed on your current job, and your employer can't fire you from your current position afterwards.
Also it's not a felony for a reservist to just not show up. You pay a $2-10 fine and you are off.

A lot of people here actually believe the Jow Forums memes about subhumans and so on. You can't really reason with the retards.

Yeah, those three countries are basically identical to anyone from anywhere else but their support ranges from 40-70%

What is that vaguely AK shaped monstrosity on the left?

It's an AK with a mosin strapped to the top of it and some kind of cardboard sci-fi wrapper over it.

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The majority of existence has been nothing but bloodshed and violence from the get go. This is a weapons board so there’s probably a good portion of people here that believe in the existential need for self defense. Not just for individuals but for countries as well. We’ve lived in a time of relative peace but to think that will last forever is foolish. I might not call it brainwashed, but I’d call it poor policy to forego any sort of fighting force in hopes that someone else will protect you. That’s like someone saying “ why buy a gun when the cops can protect you?”

I mean that DID Kind of happen a few times thrkughout history so..

Most Chinese during the 18/19th century have never seen a white person so when the Europeans came and colonised China, many peasents saw them as demons and vampires because of their very strange complexions. The Chinese had held the belief that by throwing animal excrement and entrails on demons, they will be banished and disappear. Subsequently the Chinese peasentry proceeded to throw animal excrement on European soldiers patrolling some of these colonized zones and were promptly shot.

When I was young I thought special forces had 6000:1 kill ratios.

That reminds me of this drawing I have of an English sailor.

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No, is just stupid propaganda.

I've heard that during the trainng of mexican special forces they are assigned a dog which they train and carry around until the last parts where they have to kill it and eat it, I dont know if it's true but would explain how many of them become narcos, some mexican cop told me this btw.

Looks like a Nork OICW attempt. I didn’t even realize they are trying it too, but makes sense since both China and SK have.

Kingsman?

Initially I treated it as board-culture joke, but apparently some people on Jow Forums actually believe that the Israelis wear diapers into combat.

Also, it appears that it used to be a common belief in the Israeli military that all American troops are instructed to throw away any empty mag instead of placing it back in the vest.

>all American troops are instructed to throw away any empty mag instead of placing it back in the vest
I blame the video games for this.

I mean it could probably scare an European away

Holy shit I just noticed the bolt

I have readed about it, but about peru special forces

To be fair, we actually were taught that's in Vietnam, for all of about 2 weeks before we realized it was too expensive

Maybe it's a common practice in south american countries since they have to fight their own people.

NGL our SOP is if you drop an empty mag it doesn't matter and you can pick it up after the fight is over. People have spares for when a man gets lost.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a place more full of excrement and entrails than a 19th century European city where those soldiers were recruited out of

Yeah, it's pretty retarded. They claim it's some kind of anti-materiel rifle, but I'm highly skeptical. Given the dimensions and apparent lack of weight, if it is, the only thing it's going to fuck up is the dude firing it.

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Was walking around FOB with one of our Terps, really good guy.

It was a bit cold that day, with a decent wind.

>user, do you guys have shots to deal with the cold?
>involuntarily laugh
>tell him we just deal with it

Kind of felt bad about it, but it was a ludicrous question.

Got a name?

Mexanon here, never heard of that, seems like something he pulled right out of his ass.
Also, how does that explain ''some of them becoming narcos''? Most former soldiers turned narcos are shitty grunts, SF membars have the lowest numbers of dessertion, only the extinct GAFEs did that in the 90's. And believe me, they say somehting similar from the GSG9, that they have to take care of a chicken until end of training.

That´s the way in Sweden at least, you have a "repetition month" every few years, if you aren´t employed in the army or in the homeguard.

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Canadians think we have a decently funded military...

Or a well organized one.

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I think you have to draw the line when you literally have to ask the yanks for cases of ammo

their medals remind me of coke bottle caps

Who do you think buys our recycling, user?

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Think they just looked at the Chinese QTS-11 and said "I want a piece of that".

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That rumor is the oldest one in the book, told about pretty much every special forces in every country. I've heard the same about green berets, SAS, and marsoc. All bullshit.

What is this

Signals is pretty gay desu

This is a bit of a misunderstanding.

Finns don't really believe that Russia is a credible threat.
However, Finns DO believe that Russia is utterly ruthless mob state and it WILL start some conflict shit just to quiet down some internal trouble. And that Russia has no qualms about sending tens of thousands of poor conscripts to their certain death just to play some stupid "strongman" -card in international politics.

Don't worry, Finland doesn't buy Russia's bullshit. Russia COULD undoubtly crush resistance and occupy Finland if it pulled all it's resources into one big pile and just steamroll Finland. But it would be the same situation than what Admiral Yamamoto said: "You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

It would be like Afghanistan. you CAN take it, but it is almost impossible to hold. That's the whole point of Finnish military doctrine: You COULD invade Finland and crush it's main military forces. But the military is built from ground up to switch to guerilla warfare at moment's notice. It will be local boys defending local areas, using their local knowledge. It will be their neighbourhoods thy fight in, and EVERY household knows this. "have you seen this man" will always be answered "no." even if it was the boy next door. And all sorts of punitive actions against civillian population would only increase hostility towards occupation.

It's just not worth it to zerg-rush Finland. NOTHING you get from that piece of land (be it geopolitical or strategic foothold or some natural resources) will be worth the cost in men, material, and political prestige it will cost you to just get it, let alone to hold it.

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In a way fitting this thread, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto actually never said that. It has been attributed to him but there is no evidence he ever said it.

And the Russian know this. Oh, they know it well.
If you would be a Russian young man and would be ordered to report to military base and to prepare to attack Finland... Desertion rates would be ludicrous.

There is a story about Finnish snipers amongst Russian soldiers. They call them "coo-coos". Because when you are walking in a forest, you never SEE a coo-coo bird. You only hear them from afar.

That's what Finnish snipers are: coo-coo birds. They climb trees just to see you from afar, and to shoot you before you can see them. And you would never see one. You'd only hear them when they make their "coo-coo" sound. And by that time, it would be too late.

Pictured: about 60 Finnish snipers.

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You didn't have to sacrifice a family member to our Lord and Savior Chesty to go to bootcamp?? One of us got heckin bamboozled

You may wanna dial down the jingoistic fanwank a notch before you break your penis engine. It'll be a hell and a half for you if they have to rewire your nutbladder.

Same happened in Vietnam with gooks thinking Americans were the French returning.

I can tell you've never done meth.

>Semirelated, I saw some pictures of Africans having their sights adjusted to like 1500 meters because they thought this would make the gun shoot harder... ...yea

Heard the same thing about Soviets in WWII... I'd take it with a grain of salt.