Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a reminder that GUNS AND ALCOHOL DO NOT MIX. DON'T GET DRUNK AND SHOOT YOUR OWN PEOPLE, AND DON'T SHOOT YOUR OWN PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WON'T LET YOU GET DRUNK.
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Rather than my usual #MorningMilitaryHistory post, today is a special #MilitaryMystery, ooowooooh! 🔍
After meeting a number of times with strange individuals, West Point cadet Richard Cox suddenly disappeared without explanation. Recruitment by spies? Murder? Desertion? No one knows....
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The return of #MorningMilitaryHistory! Sorry for the delay, been feeling exhausted recently.
Today's post is once again on the topic of failure, one of my favorite things to study. Here's a fun question: what was the British military's most crushing defeat? /1
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is about one of Bill and Ted's erstwhile companions, Genghis (or Chingis) Khan.
Even today, the Mongols are typically viewed as bloodthirsty barbarians, but they were (and are) a much more complicated people than the stereotypes would suggest. /1
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a bit of a clarification: while many people know that the Soviet Union teamed up with the Nazis to invade Poland (again), there's a common characterization of the Poles as basically being already defeated by the Nazis at that point, which wasn't true. /1
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I was a bit too wiped out yesterday to make the annual #MorningMilitaryHistory post, but some of my energy has returned, so today let's talk about the Inca! Like a lot if pre-Columbian civilizations, most people have only a vague, stereotypical idea as to the structure of their society. /1
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A bit of an early morning for me today, so an early #MorningMilitaryHistory post to go with it: this time, about the almost pitiable fate of the last Emperor of Mexico, brought to power on the back of the French military, and deposed and executed by the enduring forces of the Republic.
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Hoo boy, I am very sleepy deprived today. I always think about sieges when I get like this-being on edge for months on end without sleep.
Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is about one such event, the Siege of Przemysl in WW1, about which Alexander Watson wrote a book I quite enjoyed.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is for all those cat lovers out there who are sick of seeing dogs get all the soldierly attention. Sure, maybe they're not rushing into combat, but cats wage their own private war against the scourge of rat sabotuers. Where are their medals?
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a reminder that pre-Colonial North America still had it's violent conflicts, many of which are still shrouded in mystery. Tribes and civilizations falling dramatically, wars and massacres-a fascinating, complicated history interrupted by crass colonialism.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a reminder that women have *always* fought in wars. In particular, for the many women fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, they're carrying out a century's old legacy of Olena Stepaniv and others who fought in the First World War.
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Just a bite sized fun fact for today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post: tanks are descended from tractors, which were used to haul things around in the First World War.
The next time you see a farm, just know that that innocent looking tractor could hulk out at any time....
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is about an animal with long funny ears, who kicks up at anything they hear....or at least, that's how the song goes. Mules, who've carried our stuff around for millenia, have a long but often ignored history in military conflict.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a reminder that professional armies generally need to be *paid* in order to function-and paid well in order to keep them from looting and pillaging. Loyalty and warrior ethos won't convince a guard not to abandon their post out of boredom.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is just some two-cents from me; acting all ruthless and loose cannon-y and saying that you're not gonna deal with those pesky war crimes your troops are committing doesn't make you strong. It shows you're too weak and cowardly to win a fair fight.
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Time for today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post.
Have you ever wondered why early gunpowder armies wore such elaborate, colorful uniforms, like the famous British Redcoats, or the French Zouaves? There were cultural reasons, of course, and part of the idea was that they helped boost morale. /1
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is a simple lesson: if you're fighting in the desert--you need water. There are many reasons not to want to be like the Crusaders, but dying of dehydration is pretty high on the list. They were not smart people.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory is simple: Did you know that Japan fought in the First World War? It was driven by opportunism to snap up territory while Germany was busy, but they did fight a major battle. The diplomatic fallout of the war was also a turning point in Japanese and Chinese politics.
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory post is more of a reminder about a common topic-imperialism. People can sometimes try to "enhance" the tragedy of colonialism by portraying imperial powers as unstoppable juggernauts and their victims as helpless, but that's not true!/1
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I'm feeling rather down today, so for the #MorningMilitaryHistory post let's do something light.
During the Seond World War, the U.S. Navy had, among it's many specialist ships, a freezer barge most well known for giving the gift of ice cream, which American troops were absolutely obsessed with.
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Time for another #MorningMilitaryHistory post.
What makes a good, or bad, weapon? In terms of bad, it doesn't get much clearer than a gun that won't fire. Enter the Type 26, a revolver that doesn't *stop* revolving when it should, leaving the user with an empty chamber if they quickly move sideways
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Today's #MorningMilitaryHistory is brought to you by the letter Q, for Q-Ship! Q-Ships were special decoy ships disguised as unassuming merchant vessels, when in reality they were heavily armed and looking to pick a fight with a submarine. Never underestimate your enemy!
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Another #MorningMilitaryHistory post.
While revolvers are the famous example of early multi-shot pistols, there were many varied and weird designs that saw use. One of tge more successful was the "Pepperbox" design, which went with the simple solution of just adding extra barrels to the gun.😄
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For the second #MorningMilitaryHistory post, I'll relay one of my favorite stories from the Second World War. Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's favorite toadies who had been progressively pushed out of the inner circle as the war raged, gets a funny idea in his head. /1
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Y'know, with how barren and depressed Bluesky has felt recently, I think I'm going to try to work a little positive change, and start a daily post thing that I think will be fun (at the very least for me) tomorrow.
Tune in for #MorningMilitaryHistory!
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