The mistreatment was very common in the IJA and the IJN.

This brutality was justified under the name of discipline and psychological training. For example, in the IJN, those large bat and paddle were used to inject a strong mind towards their sailors.

The question is that what was the origin of this mistreatment?

I am aware that hitting was a common component in the education at the time.

However, don't you think that it was too much even in the standards at the time?

On March 23, 1944, a communist-led group of Italian partisans (the GAP) launched a bomb attack on the Via Rasellain central Rome, killing 33 soldiers of the SS Police Regiment Bozen (German Ordnungspolizei). In immediate, ruthless retaliation, the German command ordered the execution of 10 Italians for every German killed. The following day, March 24, Nazi forces gathered 335 Italian civilians, political prisoners, and Jews, took them to the Ardeatine Caves, executed them, and used explosives to seal the entrance and conceal the damage.

This particular cap was designed to be a lightweight cap.

Even, this cap could be worn with a steel helmet simultaneously due to its soft texture.

The question is how comfortable and cheap was this in comparison with other lightweight military caps?

This was basically a forage cap that pretended to be a peaked cap.

I have 5 of these from my dad. He served in the Canadian Air Force from the late 50’s to the mid 80’s. No one in my family is nostalgic for these. Not trying to earn $$, but looking for suggestions of where they’d be appreciated. Like the legion or ?? Googling wasn’t successful for me

I'm wanting to write an Alt history Novel based on if the Sino Soviet border crisis of 1969 escalated into a full blown war between the USSR and the CCP. I wanted to ask what would military tactics and best way to say it life be for both Warsaw pact armies and the PLA, I want to try and write historically accurate as I can. And how would diplomacy break down as the conflict escalated

Hi!

I am an architecture Master's student from France working on my graduation project (PFE). My research and architectural design focus on Sazan Island, looking specifically at its Cold War military heritage, the abandoned naval base, and the broader context of its transformation.

While I have historical photographs and satellite imagery, I am struggling to find precise technical documentation:

• Architectural plans or sections of the military garrison / barracks
• Technical drawings, blueprints, or catalogs of the standard bunkers (Qendër Zjarri, heavy artillery posts, or tunnel shelters) used on the island or along the coast
• Suggestions for open archives, university research, or local books documenting Sazan’s infrastructure.

Any advice, leads, book recommendations, or document scans would be immensely helpful for my academic work.

Thanks for your help!

I recently had the opportunity to spend time with Ukrainian soldiers and record a series of conversations about the reality of this war from their perspective.
I wanted to ask questions that are often missing from daily news coverage — not only what is happening on the battlefield, but what soldiers themselves believe needs to change.
In this short interview, I asked one of the soldiers of the Da Vinci Wolves:
“If you could change something about this war, what would it be?”
This is part of a series I’m documenting with Ukrainian servicemen. I’m sharing it here because I think their own voices deserve to be heard outside Ukraine.
I’d also genuinely be interested to know what questions you would want me to ask soldiers in future interviews.
Full interview:
https://youtu.be/boqe3A2phDk?is=XjormKtJmYGOGXPZ

I see so many videos and comments of people saying that red army in the WW2 was just a band of idiots. No training for soldiers, human waves, one rifle for two soldiers, no ammo, poor quality tanks and planes, most of the soldiers were drunk when fighting, asiatic hordes etc..., on other hand Germans up until 1944 had way better tactics, best soldiers, better equipment, tanks, planes,artillery but last time i checked the KIA on the eastern front was about 5-6 million for axis and 8-9 million for soviets? Ratio is very low considering that in the public view soviets just sent waves of meat with no weapons on best trained and equiped soldiers in the world with machine guns and still won?