>>64400333
As I said, chasseur accounted for 4% of the total effectives and it climbed up to 25% in 1794.
The jacobins also instated the "amalgam" : old pre-revolution regiments (so professionnal soldiers) were split in two and mixed with new conscript units. The goal was so the veterans could share their experience, but also being watched over by new but patriotic conscripts.
So if old chasseur unit became elite soldiers, it was no different than hussards, dragoons, line infantry... forming a core around wich new soldiers come stick too. But as you can see, the spiking number of skirmisher also implied most of them were just newly formed conscripts, hastively enlisted to answer the urging threat.
I would recommand to read the book "The Bayonets of the Republic : Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791–94", by John Lynn. This were the numbers come from

>>64400367
>recommand to read the book "The Bayonets of the Republic : Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791–94", by John Lynn. This were the numbers come from
Thanks, appreciated

>if old chasseur unit became elite soldiers, it was no different than hussards, dragoons, line infantry... forming a core around wich new soldiers come stick too. But as you can see, the spiking number of skirmisher also implied most of them were just newly formed conscripts, hastively enlisted to answer the urging threat.
This is 1 interpretation of the facts and it may be true

My theory or interpretation of it is nearly the opposite, that the chasseur skirmishers needed to be used to form line infantry in order to stiffen the inexperienced recruits. There are some sources I read - I forget where, which is not good - which state that sometimes chasseur a pied regiments were employed at this time as typical line battalions. So the question here is: was it Napoleon who changed how the French Army fought, or was it already a doctrine spreading amongst the jacobin generals even before him?
I think to answer the question a close analysis of the French Revolution infantry battles must be made, to see how the French tactics were in practice, not just in administrative organisation

That said the overall point is clear that it was the French who were innovating in this area at the time

>>64400394
>My theory or interpretation of it is nearly the opposite, that the chasseur skirmishers needed to be used to form line infantry in order to stiffen the inexperienced recruits. There are some sources I read - I forget where, which is not good - which state that sometimes chasseur a pied regiments were employed at this time as typical line battalions. So the question here is: was it Napoleon who changed how the French Army fought, or was it already a doctrine spreading amongst the jacobin generals even before him?
I think to answer the question a close analysis of the French Revolution infantry battles must be made, to see how the French tactics were in practice, not just in administrative organisation

It could have happen : commanders were highly encouraged to improvise and to experiment by themselves to face the reality. So it may have been occurence were light infantry batalions wre opportunistically turned into light infantry. It would make sense as they would know line discipline better than conscripts and this is what lacked at the time. On the meantime, conscript could easily become a masse of cheap skirmishers to replace them in the role.
Napoleon brought a lot of change but for a big part, he improved doctrines he inherited from the Revolution, or even before. The conscription was invented to fill the need for soldiers but is also the represent the role each citizen must fill to save the nation in a Republic. The improved role of artillery reflect the sociology of its officers : being mostly bourgeois in this branch, they were favorable to the revolution, did'nt desert and could prove themselves in the army. They took leader roles and could experiment their idea, like Napoleon himself.

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>>64400565
For instance, the organisation in division was already theorized before the Revolution but Napoleon applied it, then mastered it. But a lot of changes occured in the military field between 1792 and 1815. Most of them came from France, but it would be needed to watch them one by one to see what what was Napoleon invented, improved or inherited.
But once Napoleon was at the head of the nation and of the army, he had all the freedom to merge all the new ideas, theories and experimentations from the last years into coherent reforms and doctrines.

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>>64400568
>Most of them came from France, but it would be needed to watch them one by one to see what what was Napoleon invented, improved or inherited.
>But once Napoleon was at the head of the nation and of the army, he had all the freedom to merge all the new ideas, theories and experimentations from the last years into coherent reforms and doctrines
Fully agree

>>64399101
you're welcome, send a thank you to scananon because that guy's a saint for giving us so much reading material
guy's been at it for years

>>64399251
Praise be to scananon!!

>>64391889
>Also what's the deal with this particular misspelling of the term "shot"?
It does appear in some period literature since English spelling at the time was a polite suggestion at best

>>64399815
Some of the spellings may actually have been more accurate back then, when a bunch of vowels and consonants hadn't gone silent or changed into other sounds yet.
I think the final "e" is a leftover from 1400s Middle English, where it was sometimes voiced, and later used as a sort of marker to distinguish words like "stag" and "stage". Kind of like in French, where half the letters mostly serve as hints about what the other half are supposed to sound like.

>>64398268
>Walk me through the Battle of Nancy, even the Wikipedia page made it sound like a cluster mess of bad decisions on his part
The battle of Nancy wasn't even that bad. It basically boiled down to Charles getting jumped by the entire Swiss army while he was trying to siege down the city.

1.The Swiss arrive and form up in wedges
2.Charles forms up in defensive formations
3.The Swiss charge
4.Charles tries to hit them with cannons but the cannon's can't find the right angle
5. The Swiss hit Charles' lines, dominating his infantry and dragging the artillery into melee.
6. Charles tries to leverage his knights who were still in good order but gets overwhelmed by numbers
7. The Burgundy army routs and Charles goes with it
8.The Swiss catch the retreating Charles and a Halberdier drops him with a blow to the head.
>Or is it the broader context of the War of the Public Weal
More like the context of the Burgundy wars.
The Battle of Grandson was a Humiliating defeat with a tactical withdrawal turning into a rout. Charles sent mounted knights right into pike formations, got his ass handed to him, and the sight of the withdrawing knights made the rest of the army panic.

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>>64398084
Rent free

>>64398021
You're gonna get blown up by nasty girls lol

>>64398442
people in the US that know how to make explosives aren't going to waste them on a some anon on a sailboat.

>>64398626
>. Those are just as important as a rifle, ammo, armor, etc.

far more important actually.

living in a high trust rural community you would realistically only need hunting rifles.

>>64399317
>I mean, if you can figure out a detonator
>hurr durr if you can judt figure out the hardest part then
Also tanerrite is a shitty medium explosive. It is not good for a warhead.

>>64398435
It looks like his nose, stache and teeth are all part of his glasses

>>64395187
The SAS were invented by the United Kingdom
Butter knoife licenses were invented by the United Kaliphate

>>64398435
Why isn't he wearing the ear protection?

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>>64400652
lord grant me his confidence

>want a c-more, but with more zoomer friendly battery and internal maintenance interfacing. Maybe use a CR2032 instead
>Chinese knockoffs have failed to provide
Open site picture… bussin…

>>64384385
Chink here, be careful. The thing about Chinese quality is it's variable. You can get god tier stuff for cheap but it can just as easily get trash. Scrutinize the individual products, including different copies of the same product, heavily.

why wouldn't i want my fellow citizens have jobs

>>64384385
Calling out the chinks really made them spaz out in this thread.
Oh well. “China to die”, right?

>>64397533
Proof?

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>>64400644
>countries around the world have recieved shipments of CGI tech demos
>russians are so stupid they die to CGI tech demos
grim

>>64400680
Its obviously some fucking foreigner who is mad at the US and its superiority it has over them.

>>64400644
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>>64400525
>>64400639
fuck off /pol/ tourist

>>64400680
>>64400685
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>>64400693
Man, they must pay you as much as 30 rupees per post.

>>64400731
1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing

>>64391847
use case?

>>64391894
For me, it's the total lack of windows.

>>64392343
>>64392660
I see. It's the NWO acclimatising us to climbing inside living vessels mouths when we work for the occupation.

>>64398059
coolness

>>64391847
I still feel that drones are a dangerous precedent given how they fully justify and welcome attacks on civilian centers.

>>64400608
>I feel
post tits

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Alright zogbots listen up.
I dont know if this is the thread for it but here it goes.
How are the benefits for joining ICE and what are the requirments, manhandling browns sounds like fun and i already hate antifa commies so i am curious if the paycheck is worth the risk.Anyone has any experience or insights to share?

Are you on #TeamRobert or #TeamTodd?

>>64400253
>anyone has
You're an ESL retard, so you'll be a perfect federal government employee.

>researching online about joining
>see a sub reddit r/regretjoining

Why the fuck does the military not do a better job at vetting chronically depressed losers? Its obvious from reading those threads that they have always been depressed and were pushed through. Theres also a bunch of radical lefties.

>>64400595
you just need warm bodies

>>64398875
HLA is non canon zoomtrash

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>>64393970
I think it's just what the combine does. Takes over a territory, and combines what's in it with itself.
Humans are just free to use, walking bio-robots that you can recycle into infantry, engineers, and an occupation force while you wait for the free-minded humans to finish making your teleporter as, presumably, anything that's been "combined" with them loses the cognitive ability to create teleportation tech.
The brutal efficiency of the combine is what makes them so creepy and uncanny imo. It's more efficient to recycle us than to use infantry from other worlds/universes.

here's a followup from the OP though - could modern earth militaries win against the combine's occupation forces? since we don't actually know how big the world is by the time of HL2 or how big either side is in terms of numbers are resources let's talk in terms of a brigade level unit of striders, hunters, combine soldiers, vs a US or British brigade.

>>64400411
*numbers or resources

>>64400411
Combine doesn't seem to make use of artillery outside of headcrab mortar.

>>64380278
>>64380288
>Qatar
In reality its just a cover for Israelis to have their own place

>>64380364
We've been getting a flood of refugees fleeing the west coast states for years now anon. I think I would rather have actual Africans than more fucking Portlanders.
>Run your home state into the ground with retarded policies
>Everyone with money says fuck this and leaves for the closest non-shit state
>Abandoned state loses a huge chunk of its tax dollars it needs for these dogshit programs they voted for and now can't afford
>Diaspora starts trying to vote these same policies that caused an exodus in the first place in their new victim state
At least so far they haven't had any luck doing anything but ramping up property values to absurd degrees here, but I'm not hopeful for 20 years from now if the trend doesn't change.
Leftoids are literally a plague.

>>64381860
The small highly populated countries literally can't do proper fighter training safety in their countries, they simply don't have the airspace. Qatar is a US ally them doing training here is fine. I hate how every little mundane shit is blow out of proportions nowadays when so much real BS is happening.

>>64383145
>Is it something stupid,
how is that stupid?
that is an extremely reasonable reason for having a base in the united states.

>>64380278
Hamas air base

>>64397469
You probably mean BTS photos and not just stills from the film right?

>>64391242
Wrong

>>64377726
0/

>>64399682
OP here both BTS photos and stills from the film.

>>64384142
Is this chinese knockoff Stephen Biesty or his earlier work?
Anyway rollin

>>64400286
>>64400256
on that note, europeans visiting the tropics do experience a high casualty rate to diseases

malaria and yellow fever are frequently brought up as the main things to watch out for when visiting, things the locals are accustomed to

>>64397943
The amount of seethe it causes here does rather suggest it’s probably true

>>64400241
It just doesn't work.

https://thomsonsafaris.com/blog/taming-zebras-domestication-attempts/

>>64396556
they used psy war techniques, namely showing their naked bodies making the spaniards confused and bothered, it didnt work as well on the samurai mercenaries tho

>>64400321
That's a retarded line of thought.

>>64400477
>i mean open a mineral map and an agricultural map of ukraine
it would be smart, it they could have pulled it off
that's the problem with thurdies like you you only understand can do and can't do but not should do or shouldn't do
russian shouldn't have invaded because the invasion is costing it's more than those resources will ever make it back
>what?how do you people cum up with those timeframes
because China will be to old in 10 years, look at it's demographics
>but i assume
>I dont know why you assume
is it okay to make assumption or not?
regardless it's international law, if russia violates it it's going to complicate thing between it and Europe further
>3)because it doesnt offer maersk any sort of advantage using that route in comparison to the chinese
>you can see the aviation type of this right now because of the war that some of the big eu airlines simply cant compete with the chinese ones
a) Christ just use google translate you can't speak English for shit
b) Chinese airliners and European ones don't compete on the same routes

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>>64400477
>what?how do you people cum up with those timeframes
Easy, friend :
China is currently losing around 8 millions people per year while also aging fast.
How fast ? Well, the median age is currently at 40 years-old and stood at 37,5 years-old in 2020. It's increasing by +1 year every 2 years on average and isn't supposed to slow down for a generation.
In 2035, there will be 80 millions less chinese than there are today and half of those will be over 45 years old.
That's still a lot of chinks to charge Taiwan, though.

>>64400502
>because of the war that some of the big eu airlines simply cant compete with the chinese ones
Now that's straight-up bullshit.
Lufthansa alone is making 40B $US in turnover and about 1,5B $US in profit
Meanwhile, the two biggest Chinese airlines are making a combined 48B $US in turnover and about only 1B $US in profit.
Now to the germans, add the french, spanish, dutch and brits and you'll have about 110B $US in sales for about 5B $US in profit. And that's only taking the top companies in those countries.

If what matter is the amount of passengers, then sure, China probably win, if only because internal flights are dominated by chinese companies and even if most chinks don't fly, there's still a billion and a half of them.

>>64400502
>russian shouldn't have invaded because the invasion is costing it's more than those resources will ever make it back
if we take at face value the numbers ukraine gives then they should be marching in moscow by now

however if you use the lanchester laws of attritional warfare it means that ukraine probably has 1 to 1.12 less dead ones...
make up what you want with that info
also its not smart
they are currently holding that area not what we you meant by that
>because China will be to old in 10 years, look at it's demographics
china is not greece anon......
china will lose about 15 to 21 million which by a countr with 1.3+ billion people isnt devasting (yet...)
>if russia violates it it's going to complicate thing between it and Europe further

what europe is gonna send an strongly worded letter?
europe is a fucking joke anon they cant enforce jack shit

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>>64400563
>how many 18 to 45 men will exist in 2035? 1.3 1.2 billions?
Where are you getting those population estimates? Straight out of Comrade Xi's dick? Does CCP internal propaganda claim that they have a total population of 3 or 4 billion people or something? Because those numbers are absolutely absurd. China's population is projected to start shrinking and will be less than 1.4 billion total by 2035, and that's assuming the CCP hasn't been lying about their population stats for years now.

Pure tankie delusion.

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There's something about the 1903 hammerless...

Maybe how well the grips contrast well with the finish, the smooth lines and the concealed hammer. It doesn't feel obnoxiously big like a 1911, it's slim, petite almost.

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>>64399316
Was literally just rewatching the C&Rsenal video on the Walker. Impeccable taste, anon.

>>64345365
>We have the AN94 at home

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>>64385912
based

>>64393707
The LSW was indeed appreciated by troops in Afghan as a DMR
>>64395438
>due to the ability to get shots more accurately on target
Same conclusion which led to the M27 IAR
>The problem is that the L86 was never employed as it should have been (a DMR given to an experienced body in the fire team)
It was and that's where it gets it's positive rep from, not just Storr
The problem is that the LSW was meant to be an M249 replacement and it was not good enough in that role

Basically the BAR all over again

>>64400330
That's more expensive still

>>64400330
Brilliant plan fuckwad, lets just make our combustible gas less fucking combustible by mixing in a stupidly expensive gas that exists in limited quantities. Fucking idiot.

>>64400415
>that exists in limited quantities
there's loads of it in the atmosphere, it's just shy :(

>>64400415
It is enough to ignite a flame and cause a reaction to another flamable matter, even mixed with argon it would be less prone to shortages and faster to produce than smokeless powder.

We could also make pvc primers to avoid hydrogene embrittlement and make it reliable for conservation.

>>64400246
Third post best post.