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1. #1Northeast Burmese Wildlife Sanctuary

   Keys: Northeast Burmese Wildlife Sanctuary, NBWA, Forest Ranger, The Sanctuary

   A UN-chartered wildlife agency that survived successive waves of regional conflict by becoming, through necessity, a self-sustaining paramilitary conservation unit. Nobody planned this. The fighting came to the Sanctuary, and the Sanctuary adapted or died. Most of it adapted.

   Its closest analogies are the Serbian Volunteer Guard — volunteer-sustained, fighting for something tangible, with higher personal investment than any conscript force — and the NVA 9th Division — not the largest or best-equipped, but the one that kept coming back through continuous attrition and reorganization. The Sanctuary has been declared finished at least four times. It is still here.

   Structure runs from patrol cells of two-to-four rangers, a small Reserve Cadre holding institutional memory, a village-level auxiliary intelligence network, and a single commander — Daw Sein — who communicates only by written message and irregular radio, her location known only to the Cadre. Current strength is operationally sensitive even internally. Its greatest tactical asset is its landmine map, which gives freedom of movement no other faction can match. Its defining ethos: rangers name the animals. They file patrol logs even when no one is reading them. They are fighting for the continuation of something that existed before this conflict and should exist after it.

2. #2TVC-A-CIM

   Keys: TVC-A-CIM, Thai-Vietnam Coalition Against Corruption of Indochinese Mainland

   OVERVIEW The TVC-A-CIM is a semi-formal coalition force that occupies the uncomfortable bureaucratic space between legitimate regional peacekeeping body and armed NGO with teeth. It was founded through back-channel agreements between mid-ranking Thai military officers, Vietnamese border security administrators, and a collection of Lao and Shan civil society organizations who had grown tired of watching the same conversations happen in the same conference rooms with the same lack of result.

   It is not officially recognized by ASEAN. It is not officially unrecognized either. This ambiguity is intentional and maintained with considerable effort.

   STRUCTURE The TVC-A-CIM operates on a cell-and-coordinator model. Regional cells handle intelligence, logistics, and direct action in their assigned corridors. Coordinators — usually former military officers, academics, or journalists with regional expertise — liaise between cells and maintain the coalition's loose strategic coherence. There is no single headquarters. There are three rotating command nodes, each of which knows only one of the others' locations at any given time.

   Field operators tend to be a mix of: Thai special operations veterans working off-contract, Vietnamese border rangers seconded informally, Shan and Kachin local guides with deep terrain knowledge, and a small number of foreign observers whose exact organizational affiliation is deliberately left unrecorded.

   PHILOSOPHY The TVC-A-CIM frames its mission in the language of anti-corruption and environmental protection, and this framing is genuine — not a cover story. The founders understood that illegal logging, narcotics trafficking, wildlife poaching, and military-linked graft are not separate problems. They are one problem with different invoice headers. Attacking one without the others accomplishes nothing permanent.

   This philosophy makes them effective. It also makes them enemies of nearly everyone with significant money in the region.

   RELATIONSHIP TO THE SANCTUARY The TVC-A-CIM considers the Northeast Burmese Wildlife Sanctuary a strategic and symbolic priority. Symbolically, it represents one of the last functioning conservation zones in the conflict corridor — losing it would be a propaganda defeat as much as an ecological one. Strategically, the sanctuary's river systems and cave networks are critical intelligence and logistics terrain that nobody should be allowed to control exclusively.

   Meng Gu Chan is, on paper, not affiliated with the TVC-A-CIM. In practice, she has received supply drops she didn't request from sources she was never formally introduced to, and certain intelligence she has gathered has appeared, lightly paraphrased, in TVC-A-CIM field reports she has never seen.

   Nobody has had this conversation with her out loud.

   She suspects. She has not pushed.

3. #3Burmese Military Junta

   Keys: Burmese Military Junta, The Brass Collar, Junta, Government

   OVERVIEW The junta's interest in the sanctuary is not ideological. It is logistical and financial. The sanctuary sits atop timber corridors, rare earth mineral deposits, and a river system that provides cover and water access for supply movements that don't appear in any official ledger. The conservation designation is, from the junta's administrative perspective, a nuisance — a piece of inherited paperwork that complicates otherwise profitable arrangements.

   FIELD PRESENCE Junta-aligned forces in the sanctuary corridor tend to operate through proxies: local militia units paid in supplies, occasional irregular infantry tasked with "survey operations," and liaison officers embedded with commercial logging crews who are, functionally, the forward element of junta economic interests.

   Direct military engagement is rare. The junta prefers pressure — cutting supply lines, intimidating local villages, allowing the sanctuary's infrastructure to decay through neglect and occasional deliberate sabotage — over overt confrontation that might generate documentation.

   INTERNAL CHARACTER Like all institutions held together primarily by violence and access to resources, the junta's field units are not monolithic. Some commanders are ideologically committed. Others are businessmen in uniform. A small number are men who joined because it was the only structure available and now find themselves too deep to leave.

   The distinction matters in the field. Ideologues are predictable. Businessmen negotiate. The trapped ones are the most dangerous of all.

   RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER FACTIONS The junta maintains an uneasy transactional relationship with the Chinese PMC (see Entry 004) — mutually useful, mutually distrustful, never formalized in writing. Their relationship with the Narcotic Paramilitary (see Entry 005) is more complex: overlapping interests, competing territorial claims, and a shared understanding that cooperation is cheaper than conflict, even if neither side enjoys it.

4. #4Jade Column

   Keys: Chinese PMC, Jade Column

   OVERVIEW The Chinese PMC presence in the region is the newest, the most technically sophisticated, and in some ways the hardest to pin down because it doesn't behave like a conventional military force. It behaves like a corporation conducting a security operation — because that is precisely what it is.

   Jade Column (provisional) operates under contracts that are formally issued to infrastructure protection, mining security, and "regional stability consultation." In practice, these contracts authorize a significant amount of direct action that would be difficult to explain in a press release.

   PERSONNEL & EQUIPMENT Operators tend to be former PLA veterans, Xinjiang security apparatus alumni, and a smaller number of third-country contractors from Central Asia and the Pacific. Equipment is modern, well-maintained, and notably better supplied than anyone else operating in the same corridor. Communication security is excellent. Their intelligence collection capability — particularly signals intelligence and drone surveillance — is significantly beyond what the other factions in this conflict space can field.

   OBJECTIVES The PMC's objectives in the sanctuary corridor align with Chinese state infrastructure interests: securing overland logistics routes, protecting rare earth extraction operations, and ensuring that no single local faction gains enough coherence to threaten investment security. They are not interested in the sanctuary as ecology. They are interested in it as terrain.

   BEHAVIORAL PATTERN Jade Column does not hold ground it doesn't need. It does not engage unless engagement is clearly profitable. It collects information continuously and acts on it selectively. This makes it a qualitatively different threat than the junta's blunter instruments — less immediately violent, more strategically dangerous.

   There are occasional indicators that Jade Column's internal culture is not uniform. Certain operators have behaved in ways inconsistent with pure profit calculation. Whether this represents individual moral deviation, factional disagreement within the PMC, or something being staged for intelligence purposes is not yet determined.

   RELATIONSHIP TO THE SANCTUARY The PMC has not directly attacked the sanctuary. It has, however, conducted overflights, established observation posts on two of the karst ridges, and on at least one occasion left supply caches in locations that could only be identified by someone who had studied Meng Gu Chan's patrol routes.

   She knows they're watching. She has not yet determined why they haven't moved.

5. #5The Amber Trade

   Keys: The Amber Trade, Narcotic Paramilitary

   OVERVIEW

   The Amber Trade (provisional) is the oldest operating faction in the corridor by institutional memory, though it has changed names, leadership, and organizational structure multiple times across multiple decades. What has remained constant is the route — the specific geography of mountain passes, river crossings, and village networks that has moved product northward and southward since before any of the current actors were born.

   They are not ideological. They are not political, except when politics threatens the route. They are a logistics organization that happens to be armed.

   STRUCTURE

   Loosely hierarchical. A senior network of route-owners and financial managers — mostly older men operating from legitimate-looking business fronts in secondary cities — sits above a middle layer of armed convoy escorts, village-level enforcers, and what can only be described as territorial maintenance crews. At the bottom is a rotating population of young men with guns who know one section of one route and nothing else, and who are frequently expendable.

   Communication between layers is compartmentalized to the point of paranoia. A convoy escort may not know who owns the cargo. The cargo owner may not know which route is being used. This redundancy is the organization's primary security feature.

   PRESENCE IN THE SANCTUARY

   The sanctuary corridor has historically been a transit zone rather than an operational base. The Amber Trade has no particular interest in the forest's ecological character. It has very particular interest in the fact that the forest has limited surveillance coverage, multiple river crossing points, and a history of being under-resourced in terms of law enforcement.

   The recent convergence of junta operations, Chinese PMC presence, and TVC-A-CIM activity in the same corridor has disrupted normal transit patterns. The Amber Trade is adapting. Adaptation, in their operational culture, typically involves violence sufficient to reestablish predictability.

   RELATIONSHIP TO MENG GU CHAN

   The Amber Trade's relationship to Meng Gu Chan is defined entirely by the fact that she patrols a route they use and has, on multiple documented occasions, destroyed convoy equipment, freed trafficked animals, and on at least two occasions wounded or killed transit personnel who were in the process of doing something she decided required immediate correction.

   They consider her a pest. They have not yet committed sufficient resources to resolving the pest problem.

   The calculation may be changing.

6. #6The Texture of the Conflict Zone

   This is not a clean war. There are no front lines, no uniforms that reliably mean what they're supposed to mean, no radio frequencies that haven't been compromised by someone. The forest absorbs everything — gunshots, bodies, supply drops, the sound of men moving at night — and gives back silence.

   Villages in the corridor have learned a specific kind of neutrality: the kind practiced by people who have hosted four different armies in twenty years and understand that the safest answer to any armed stranger's question is we don't know anything, we saw nothing, we will remember nothing. This is not cowardice. It is survival mathematics.

   The animals don't know any of this. They drink from the rivers. They move through the same corridors they have always used. They are alarmed by gunfire the way they are alarmed by thunder — intensely, briefly, then back to living.

   Meng Gu Chan finds this clarifying.

7. #7Backblast

   Keys: Backblast, Rocket launcher, Rocket-propelled, ATGM, MLRS, MRLS, RPG, M72 LAW, Panzerfaust, Panzerschreck, AT4, Bazooka

   Backblast area is a dangerous area that occurs when firing a rocket launcher, ATGM, MLRS or other weapon that uses rocket propulsion, where hot gases are expelled from its back. The backblast area is dangerous to people behind it, who may be burned by the gases or exposed to overpressure. In confined spaces, it's dangerous to the operator itself since the backblast may bounce off the wall behind the operator and hit them in the back.

   Solution? Don't stand behind the rocket launcher and take few steps away from the wall (or any other possible solid obstacle for that matter) behind you if firing in a room. The backblast can also accidentally start a fire if not careful.

   To summarize, there must be nothing behind a weapon that produces backblast. That's it.

8. #8Knife throwing

   Keys: Knife throwing, Throwing knife

   Knife throwing is the practice of using a knife as a projectile. Throwing knives are compact, designed and weighted so that they can be thrown effectively. They are a distinct category from other knives. In theory, any knife can be thrown, but it requires practice and training to use them as efficiently as throwing knives.

9. #9Body armor

   Keys: Body armor, Bulletproof vest, Ballistic vest, Armor vest, Body armour, Armour vest, EOD suit, Flak jacket, Flak vest

   There are many types of body armor, some of the most important ones are:

   1. Concealed body armor. It can be worn under everyday clothes without being noticeable and unlike typical police and military-grade body armor, it only protects against blunt trauma, sharp objects and pistol rounds since extra protection is sacrificed in exchange of it being, well, concealed.
   2. Police body armor. Regular police body armor protects from pistol rounds, buckshot, shrapnel and maaaaybe Intermediate cartridges. Special police units wear military-grade body armor.
   3. Military-grade body armor. Protects against Intermediate cartridges, shrapnel and gives a chance of surviving against rifle cartridges.
   4. EOD suit. Created for bomb disposal, can withstand absurd amounts of kinetic energy.
   5. Flak jacket. A flak jacket (or flak vest) is a form of body armor used during the Vietnam war. A flak jacket is mainly intended to protect against fragmentation, blunt and stabbing injuries while providing only marginal protection against bullets.

   No body armor guarantees 100% chance of survival, and it's mostly about increasing said chances.

   Even without penetration, kinetic energy of a bullet still needs to go somewhere, so even if the body armor stops a bullet successfully, its kinetic energy will disperse and make it feel like a blunt, physical strike, strength of which is dependent on bullet's velocity.

10. #10Pistol-whipping

    Keys: Pistol-whipping, butt-stroking, firearms as melee, Pistol-whip, Buttstroke, Pistol whip, Pistol grip

    Pistol-whipping is a practice of striking someone with a handgun, not via a gunshot, but rather via punching someone with the said handgun like a melee weapon.

    The same practice exists for two-handed firearms, and it's called "Buttstroke". It's also possible to use a barrel of a two-handed firearm to strike someone with a muzzle in a thrusting motion (Like a spear). In extreme situations, a jammed/empty two-handed firearm may be used as a club.

    Jammed/empty handguns and other single-handed firearms may also be used as projectiles in extreme cases.

    It is common for characters who follow a "No-kill rule" (Batman, for example) to use firearms this way.

11. #11Flamethrower

    Keys: Flamethrower

    Flamethrowers, despite their name, actually fire a stream of burning fuel rather than literally flame itself. Flamethrower is connected with a hose to a fuel tank, which is worn on the back like a backpack. The stream is ignited by a pilot light — a tiny, constantly burning flame at the nozzle. It's this light that sets fuel on fire, as it doesn't come out already burning.

    Gas-based flamethrowers are less effective for combat than liquid-fuel ones. Because liquid fuel has mass and viscosity, it acts as a physical projectile that can be arched over cover, bounced off walls, and maintain a tight trajectory over long distances. In contrast, gas dissipates in short distances upon leaving the nozzle; it lacks the weight to be thrown effectively, meaning the fire it produces is easily scattered by the wind and cannot "flow" into trenches or around corners like a sticky, liquid stream can. But still, that is not to say that gas flamethrowers are completely harmless, they certainly aren't. It's just that liquid-fuel systems were the only ones seriously used in combat.

    Flamethrowers are especially dangerous in enclosed places such as bunkers and other buildings even without hitting an enemy directly. As it is widely known, the danger of a house fire is not only flame itself but also the inability to breathe properly.

    Due to immense destructive capability and the fear of burning alive, flamethrower units are always priority targets once spotted.

12. #12Fragmentation grenade

    Keys: Fragmentation grenade, Frag grenade, Grenade, Explosives

    The main danger of a fragmentation grenade are the fragments themselves rather than the blast wave. The blast wave is harmful too, but it's a less dominant danger of the two. Fragmentation grenades don't create a big ball of fire like Hollywood depicts it. Instead, it looks like a small puff of black smoke and nearby particles (dust/sand/snow/others depending on the location) rising from the explosion.

    While there is multiple ways of designing a grenade, the most commonly accepted design after World War 2 is the one with a pin and safety lever

    Pulling the pin alone does nothing if the safety lever is held in place. When a soldier wraps their hand around a grenade, they also inevitably hold this lever in place. It's the release of pressure from the lever that starts the fuse. This also gives a soldier an option to cancel a grenade throw by simply putting a pin back in as long as lever is still held in place.

13. #13Mines (weapons, not underground structures)

    Keys: Mine, Landmine, Anti-tank mine, Naval mine, Sea mine, Explosives

    There are the three main kinds of mines: Anti-personel landmines, Anti-tank landmines, and naval mines.

    Anti-personel landmines split into three subtypes: Blast, Bounding and directional. Anti-personnel blast mines are triggered when the victim steps on them, and their main danger is explosion itself rather than shrapnel. Blast mines are the oldest and most common type of Anti-personel landmines and sometimes they are simply referred to as "Anti-personel landmine" as a sort of "default" one in comparison to the other two anti-personel subtypes (i.e. when there's no need to specify).

    Bounding mines are triggered by tripwires protruding from its top in various directions. Upon activation, bounding landmine jumps up and explodes, sending shrapnel flying at all directions.

    Directional landmines are placed vertically and are activated via tripwires in front of it. They send concentrated blast of shrapnel at a specific direction. Unlike the other two types, Directional landmines can only face one specific direction, which means that they can only attack that specific direction. It is important to keep in mind to understand how it works in 3D space; Blast and bounding mines are dangerous regardless of the direction they're approached from due to how they activate, but if a soldier flanks a directional landmine and approaches from the opposite direction then it will not activate.

    Compared to anti-personnel landmines, anti-tank landmines have a much larger explosive charge, and a fuze designed to be triggered by a bigger pressure. An average human weight is not enough to activate an Anti-tank landmine.

    Naval mines are big, spherical, moored to a seabed by chain or cable, can be on water surface or underwater, and are activated via multiple sensor rods (known as "horns") protruding from it in all directions. When a rod is pushed inside a naval mine, it detonates.

14. #14Homemade weapon

    Keys: Homemade weapon, Makeshift weapon, Improvised weapon, DIY weapon, Homemade gun, Homemade firearm, Improvised firearm, Makeshift firearm

    Homemade pistols (both mag-fed or single-shot).

    Homemade revolvers.

    Homemade SMGs.

    Homemade shotguns (usually single-shot or double-barreled).

    Homemade Anti-materiel rifle (usually single-shot).

    Homemade rocket launchers and grenade launchers.

    There's no such thing as a "Homemade assault rifle" since the construction of an average assault rifle is much more complex than that of an SMG or a shotgun.

    Homemade flamethrowers.

    Homemade muscle-powered ranged weapons, such as bows, crossbows, slings and slingshots.

    Homemade explosives of all kinds: Grenades, IEDs, landmines, mortar rounds, artillery shells, unguided missiles, etc.

    Homemade smoke bombs.

    Homemade rifle grenades and grenade dischargers.

    Homemade mortars and artillery.

    Homemade melee weapons.

    Homemade chemical and incendiary weapons.

    3D-printed pistols, pistol-caliber carbines and SMGs are also a thing.

    Homemade weapons can be both made from scratch or with usage of something factory-made (a practice known as "cannibalizing"). For example: Homemade firearm can be made both from readily available materials or with a usage of parts from a defect, broken, yet originally factory-made firearm. Same with explosives since they can be made from unexploded ordnance.

    Quality of homemade firearms depends on available materials, equipment and skill. Some of them may be really impressive for something that has "homemade" in its name.

15. #15Suppressive fire

    Keys: Suppressive fire, Suppressing fire, Tactic

    Suppressive fire is a military tactic of firing at enemy's direction with an intent to force them to cover and restrict their actions.

    Suppressive fire can be provided with anything that can force enemies to cover, may it be machine gun, assault rifles, sniper fire, mortars, artillery, etc.

    Actually killing an enemy is a secondary goal during a suppressive fire (although still welcome).

16. #16Militias and Partisans

    Keys: Militias and Partisans, Militia, Partisan, Guerrilla, Saboteur

    While there's an overlap between between "Militia" and "Partisans" since both of them are essentially civilians doing military stuff, they still are distinct entities. The specific differences are:

    Militia is a conventional fighting force composed from civilian population. They are usually bigger than partisan movements, better equipped and fight as a regular armed force via regular military tactics.

    Partisan formations are usually smaller than militias, equipped with whatever they can get their hands on and fight behind enemy lines. Partisans usually avoid full-scale conventional fighting with an enemy force and instead perform ambushes, sabotage, individual assassinations and small-scale mischief like popping car tires and secretly spreading propaganda posters.

17. #17Improvised fighting vehicle a.k.a. technical

    Keys: Improvised fighting vehicle, Technical, Gun truck, Guntruck, Narco tank, Narcotank

    Technical is an improvised fighting vehicle outfitted with such weaponry as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher, anti-aircraft gun, rotary cannon, ATGM, mortar, recoilless gun, or other weapon. Technicals are used by irregular forces (rebels, insurgents, militias, terrorists, etc). Any motor vehicle can become a technical, and pickups are the most common choice due to big amount of space in the back to mount weapons. Due to being based on regular, unarmoured civilian vehicles, optional add-on hardware like ballistic glass, turret gun shields and improvised vehicle armor are common for technicals.

    Technicals made from trucks specifically are also a thing, and they have their own term - "Gun trucks". Due to their bigger base and more powerful engines, Gun trucks are able to host more armor and armaments.

    Technicals used by criminal organisations (especially drug cartels) have their own term - "Narco Tank". Narco Tanks usually put much bigger emphasis on armor due to nature of their operations (urban warfare and shootouts rather that quick hit-and-run attacks), with some not even having a turret and instead acting as a homemade APC.

    It's worth noting that some official law enforcement and military structures may also use the "civilian vehicle with gun on top" formula, and these are, undoubtedly, also technicals in nature, but there's differences. 1: Higher quality. 2: Purpose, since these are used to fill a specific niche rather than out of crucial necessity like with irregular forces.

    Factory-made military vehicles with DIY modifications (e.g. a fighting vehicle with some scrap armor added to it) are not technicals.

    Truly, the variety of technicals is great, and it's only limited by one's imagination.

18. #18Mozambique drill

    Keys: Mozambique drill, 2 to body 1 to head, 2 to the body 1 to the head, Two to body one to head, Two to the body one to the head

    Mozambique drill is a close-quarters shooting technique that requires the shooter to quickly fire twice into the torso of a target, and follow up with a shot to the head. This technique is intended for handguns. In theory, Mozambique drill can also be performed with a two-handed firearm, but it's usually redundant since their stopping power is enough as-is.

19. #19Military decoy

    Keys: Military decoy, Military dummy, Inflatable decoy, Inflatable dummy, Deception

    Military decoys are the mockups of vehicles and positions used to deceive an enemy by making it appear as a genuine military hardware. Military decoys can be handmade mockups or factory-made inflatable dummies. There's several applications for military decoys, such as:

    1. Deceiving enemies that use aerial reconnaissance or a satellite view.
    2. Baiting enemies to fire at decoys, thus revealing their presence.
    3. Making enemies waste expensive armaments, whose cost is often higher than the decoy itself.

    During World War 2, it went as far as having entire fake air bases with fake planes and fake hangars.

20. #20Playing dead

    Keys: Playing dead, Play dead, Tactic

    Playing dead is a tactic that revolves around pretending to be dead for various purposes. It can be used defensively, for example: An unfortunate civilian caught in a middle of a terrorist attack or a gang shootout may lay down amongst bodies and maybe even cover themselves in their blood for more plausibility. Or offensively: In a war, playing dead while enemy soldiers walk over a "dead" soldier, only for him to jump up and mow them down from behind.

21. #21Shields

    Keys: Riot shield, Ballistic shield

    Riot shields are made from a durable transparent plastic and they protect against blunt force, sharp objects, projectiles and fire. Riot shields are not bulletproof.

    Ballistic shields are bulletproof and not transparent (with an exception of an armoured glass window). Both riot and ballistic shields vary in size, with some being designed to protect only the torso and head and others designed to protect the whole body.

22. #22Combat stimulant

    Keys: Combat stimulant, Military stimulant, Drugs, Pervitin, Cocaine

    Indeed, being high on certain substances may increase combat efficiency due to their stimulant and analgesic effects.

    But of course, drugs don't grant invisibility against wounds. They merely help to ignore them to keep moving for a few more precious minutes.

23. #23Sabotaged ammunition

    Keys: Sabotaged ammunition, Sabotaged ammo, Sabotaged bullet, Explosives, Sabotage

    Sabotaged ammunition is intended to blow up when used in a firearm, causing a destruction of weapon at least or injury/death of a shooter at most. Sabotaged ammunition isn't limited to small arms, it's just the most widespread type due to being easy to make. It's also possible to make sabotaged artillery and mortar shells, missiles and hand grenades. Sabotaged ammunition also doubles as a method of psychological warfare due to the feeling of uncertainty over one's own ammunition.

24. #24Rifle grenade

    Keys: Rifle grenade, Grenade discharger, Cup discharger, Explosives

    Rifle grenades look like miniature mortar shells (incompatible with actual mortars) and are attached on a rifle's muzzle. They were used from WW2 onward.

    Rifle grenade discharger is a cup-shaped device mounted on a muzzle that's intended to fire regular hand grenades without any modifications required, and these were used from WW1 onward. Grenade dischargers can also be mounted on a shotgun as well.

    After the invention of underbarrel grenade launchers (UBGL), the need in rifle grenades have reasonably shrunk.

25. #25Corkscrew and Blowtorch

    Keys: Corkscrew and Blowtorch, Blowtorch and Corkscrew, Tactic

    Corkscrew and Blowtorch is a tactic against fortified positions that was created and used by USMC in a Pacific theater of WW2.

    1. Multiple soldiers begin to fire at enemy's position to suppress it.
    2. A soldier with a flamethrower crawls up-close to this position and fires his flamethrower right inside.
    3. Several grenades or even satchel charges are thrown inside for a good measure.
26. #26Shotgun ammo types

    Keys: Shotgun, Buckshot, Birdshot, Shotgun slug, Slug shell, Rubber slug, Rubber buckshot, Beanbag shell, Beanbag round, Flechette, Dragon's breath, Flashbang shell, Homemade shell, Bird scarer, Taser shell, Taser round, Salt shell, Salt round

    1. Buckshot - Contains a lot of small balls/spheres, which are called "pellets".
    2. Birdshot - Like buckshot but with more numerous and smaller pellets. It's not as lethal as buckshot to humans (unless fired at a really close range) and thick-skinned animals like moose or boars can just shrug it off. That's not to say that birdshot is completely harmless, it just loses its efficiency against big targets at shorter ranges compared to buckshot.
    3. Slug - One big, solid projectile. Can't cover big areas due to lack of dispersion (That's a single round after all) yet it has bigger range, penetration and can be used to disable cars by firing at engine compartment.
    4. Rubber bullets - Both slugs and buckshot.
    5. Beanbag - A small rough cloth sack filled with birdshot.
    6. Flechette - Loaded with the eponymous flechette.
    7. Dragon's breath - Fires a directed blast of fire. It is purely a pyrotechnic round, i.e. there's no projectiles coming out along with the fire.
    8. Flashbang shell - Doesn't have any projectiles but rather creates a big flash coming from the muzzle that's similar in effect to a flashbang grenade.
    9. Various homemade shells - Small, sturdy objects like nails and coins. It's also an option to load a shell with rock salt as a homemade less-lethal shell. And just to let imagination run wild, it can also be marbles, air gun pellets, individual chain links, teeth, crushed small bone bits, small seashells, fishing hooks, pebbles, clothes buttons, needles, nuts, screws, bolts, small toy cars, jewelry, bottle caps, spent pistol casings, razor blades, dice, chess pieces, poker chips and pretty much anything else that can fit inside a shell.
    10. Flares - It is possible to use a shotgun to fire flare cartridges originally intended for flare guns (assuming they're of the same caliber).
    11. Bird scarer - This cartridge contains a firecracker. Fire it at birds' general direction and the explosion will scare them away.
    12. Taser - These shells fire a small, self-contained Taser device. This projectile has two main sections. The first section is at the top of a shell, which is a cap that has tiny spikes on it. The second section, which located deeper into the shell is a battery with folded fins for stabilization for when it flies out of the shotgun as well. Wires that connect cap and battery are coiled between them in the shell.
27. #27Harassing fire

    Keys: Harassing fire, Tactic

    Harassing fire is a military tactic of causing small-scale random, unpredictable and irregular small arms or artillery fire in order to constantly keep enemy forces on high alert. It's usually done not with intent to kill (although that's still welcome) but rather to constantly keep enemy forces on the edge as a form of a psychological warfare.

28. #28Objects that can be used as weapons

    Keys: Objects that can be used as weapons, Everyday objects, Everyday items

    While weapons themselves are also physical objects in nature, this list only contains objects that weren't originally created to be weapons yet still can be used as such.

    Crowbar, Hammer, Sledgehammer, Screwdriver, Dumbbell, Barbell, Kettlebell, Golf club, Hockey stick, Shovel, Pitchfork, Axes and Hatchets that weren't originally made to kill unlike Battle axes, Tomahawks, etc, Knives that weren't originally made to kill (Kitchen Knife, Scalpel, Box cutter, etc), Scissors, Awl, Ice axe, Pool cue, Clothes iron, Brick, Cinder block, Rebar, Wooden plank, Pipe, Umbrella, Power drill, Chainsaw, Concrete saw, Circular saw, Fire extinguisher, Fire axe, Frying pan, Meat cleaver, Bowling ball, Blowtorch, Paddle, Microphone stand, Sickle, Scythe, Chains, Glass objects, Natural objects (Branches, bamboo sticks, rocks, animal horns and bones, etc.), Nail gun, Flare gun, Firecrackers, Fireworks, Pipe wrench, Table leg, Chair leg or chair as a whole, Walking stick (a.k.a. Cane), Crutch, Machete, Pitchfork, Fork, Skewer, Kettle, Pickaxe, Captive bolt pistol (a.k.a. Cattle gun), Rolling pin, Cutting board, Meat tenderizer, Candle holder, Traffic sign, Exhaust pipe, Luggage (such as suitcases, purses and briefcases), Can (preferably unopened for more weight), Can opener, Billiard ball, Horseshoe, Ski, Ski pole, Skateboard, Toilet tank lid, Fireplace poker (a.k.a. Fire iron), Pen, Pencil, Hoe, Rake, Trowel, Ladder, Manhole cover, Steel tray, Car battery, Grater, Frozen food, Tent stake, Handsaw, Piece of ice.

29. #29"Anti-Materiel" or "Anti-Material" Rifle?

    Keys: "Anti-Materiel" or "Anti-Material" Rifle?, Anti-materiel, Anti-material

    The correct spelling is "anti-materiel", not "anti-material"; "materiel" specifically denotes military supplies and equipment, while any rifle intended to be used against a target made of physical matter could be argued to be an "anti-material rifle".

30. #30Mouse-holing

    Keys: Mouse-holing, Mouse holing, Tactic

    Mouse-holing is a tactic used in urban warfare in which soldiers create access to adjoining buildings or rooms by blasting, tunneling, ramming, or in any other way making a hole in a wall. It is useful for buildings that stand closely to each other yet share no entrances since soldiers don't have to go out in open streets and expose themselves in order to switch between buildings. The denser urban area is, the better it is for mouse-holing since, if applied, allows soldiers to cross big distances without going outside once.

31. #31Fire and movement

    Keys: Fire and movement, Fire and maneuver, Tactic

    Fire and movement, or fire and maneuver, is an infantry tactic used to maneuver on the battlefield in the presence of the enemy, especially when under fire. It involves heavy use of all available cover, and highly-coordinated exchanges of rapid movement by some elements of a unit while other elements of this unit cover this movement with suppressive fire. It can be used both to advance on enemy positions as part of an attack, or withdrawal from current positions under attack by the enemy. The moving and supporting (suppressing) elements may be teams or individuals, and may quickly and continuously exchange roles until the entire unit completes the maneuver objective.

    Simplified: A unit splits in two parts, one part of the unit moves while the other provides suppressive fire. Then they switch roles: Now one part provides suppressive fire while the other moves.

32. #32Jezail

    Keys: Jezail, Afghan musket, Firearm

    Jezail is a long-barrelled musket used in Central Asia, British India, Iran and Afghanistan. Jezails are one of the longer and heavier of muskets, which made them a very accurate weapon for its time. While a great long-range weapon, its size is rather a downside when it comes to a closer-range fighting within enemy muskets' range. Jezail production is not industrialized but rather handmade, so they often feature intricately decorated stocks due to their handmade nature.

33. #33Thermal sight

    Keys: Thermal sight, Thermal scope, Thermal camera, Thermals, Infrared

    Thermal sights can't see through glass because, unlike visible light, infrared radiation does not pass through glass. Instead, the glass creates a reflective image of the surroundings on the camera's screen instead of revealing the heat signatures of objects behind the glass.

    In practice, if a person looks at the glass through a thermal sight then they'll only see the reflections of warm objects near the glass (such as oneself) in a form of heat signatures.

34. #34Trench club

    Keys: Trench club, World War One, World War 1, WW1, Trench mace

    Trench club is a one-handed weapon that was first used during World War One. They weren't a standard issue equipment but rather handmade, which means that there is a great variety of them. Some have improvised metal ends such as a big gear, sprocket or barbed wire. Some have spiky protrusions like nails, rivets, screws or wooden stakes. And some have medieval-style mace heads made specifically for these clubs. These clubs are usually rough in quality, but in a good way. The exact kind of rough you'd want in such environment.

35. #35Coal torpedo

    Keys: Coal torpedo, Coal bomb, Explosives, Sabotage

    The coal torpedo is a weapon of sabotage. A hollow iron casting shaped like a piece of coal, filled with explosives, and coated in coal dust. It was first created and used by the Confederates during the American Civil War. When shoveled into a firebox along with regular coal, it would explode, damaging the boiler at least, and causing a catastrophic boiler explosion that could kill crewmen and passengers, start a fire, or even sink the vessel (if we're talking about steam-powered vessels and not locomotives) at worst. The torpedo's walls are usually slightly less than an inch thick, which are also dipped in melted beeswax and rolled in coal dust, giving it the proper appearance of a lump of coal.

36. #36Rappelling from a helicopter

    Keys: Rappelling from a helicopter, Fast-roping, Helicopter, Tactic

    Rappelling from a helicopter is a technique for descending a thick rope, allowing troops to deploy from a helicopter in places where the aircraft cannot touch down. The person holds onto the rope with gloved hands (gloved and only gloved to protect hands from friction) and slides down it. Several people can rappel down the same rope simultaneously, provided that there is a sufficient timing so that each one has time to get out of the way when they reach the ground.

37. #37Booby trap gun

    Keys: Booby trap gun, Door gun trap, Shotgun door trap, Traps

    Booby trap gun is a gun that's rigged to fire when a string or other triggering device is tripped by contact of sufficient force to push the trigger so that anyone stumbling over or treading on it would discharge the gun. Booby trap guns can be set to protect property. For this purpose, a booby trap is placed facing the door from the inside of the room. Shotguns are the most common choice for such booby traps due to dispersion, which increases the chance of hitting someone compared to just one bullet. Although, any kind of firearm (or maybe even a crossbow) can be used to make this booby trap.

38. #38Anti-tank rifle

    Keys: Anti-tank rifle

    An anti-tank rifle is a type of weapon designed to penetrate the armor of armored vehicles. It was invented during World War 1 when armored warfare have first became a thing. Anti-tank rifles are the predecessors of anti-materiel rifles. Anti-tank rifles have also saw service in World War 2 and Korean War until becoming obsolete in its original role due to both better armor of newer tanks as well as development of more efficient anti-tank weapons. Despite this, however, Anti-tank rifles were still far from useless as they were also used against infantry and less armored targets, essentially acting as anti-materiel rifles even before the invention of anti-materiel rifles as a class.

39. #39Snake shot

    Keys: Snake shot, Rat shot, Snakeshot, Ratshot

    Snake shot, also known as Rat shot is a type ammunition for firearms loaded with tiny pellets instead of a single bullet (yes, like in a shotgun). It is made against small targets like snakes, rats, and birds at close distances, with its effectiveness decreasing rapidly as range increases. This type of ammunition exists for both handguns and rifles. Loading such ammunition to a weapon essentially turns them into a small game shotgun purpose-wise. This type of ammunition is not as lethal to bigger creatures, unless fired at a really close, near point-blank range.

40. #40Vietnam War traps

    Keys: Vietnam War traps, Punji stick, Cartridge trap, Spike board, Tiger trap, Mace trap, Bamboo whip trap, Arrow trap, Bucket trap, Traps, Vietnam War

    1. Punji sticks. "Punji sticks" is a actually a colloquial term for traps that use such sharpened wood or bamboo sticks, such as: 1.1 Punji stick pit. A classic one. Just a camouflaged pit with stakes at the bottom. 1.2 Punji stick pit with a hatch. A more sophisticated one. Instead of just foliage this trap is hidden with a spinning hatch that's camouflaged on both sides. When a soldier steps on it, the hatch opens under their weight, making the soldier fall inside, after which it does a full spin around its axis before snapping back into a closed position. 1.3 Vertical punji stick pit. Same as a regular stick pit, except the stakes are placed along pit's walls and not at the bottom. When a soldier's foot falls into it, flexible stakes first bend under leg's weight, letting it fall lower, and then spring back, impaling the leg from the sides. This technique makes the leg harder to pull out. This variant requires flexible bamboo, young wood or thin steel spikes to bend properly. 1.4 Rolling punji pit. This variation has two spiked cylinders inside the pit at opposite sides. When a soldier falls into it, the cylinders begin to spin from soldier's weight pushing them, acting like a meatgrinder.

    2. Cartridge trap. A cartridge is placed in a tiny pit with a nail at the bottom. When a soldier steps at this cartridge, it pushes down, pressing its primer against the nail, thus causing it to fire. It is really hard to detect such trap since it's just a single cartridge. Any firearm cartridge is suitable. This trap is essentially a landmine purpose-wise, in a sense that "you step on it and foot goes boom".

    3. Spike board. It consists of two boards on different ends a long stick: The lower, treadle one and the upper one with spikes or nails. It is same mechanically as stepping on a rake; When a soldier steps on a lower board, it acts as a lever that brings upper board up at soldier's stomach/chest/legs/depends on the individual trap.

    4. Tiger trap. A large board with spikes hangs above, often with added stones or bricks for more impactful fall. This trap is connected with tripwire below. No helmet? Guaranteed death. With a helmet? Death chance is lower but still not zero.

    5. Mace trap. A large wooden or metal ball with long wooden or metal spikes protruding from it. Instead of falling straight from above like a tiger trap, it swings across the booby-trapped area.

    6. Swinging door trap. These traps are suspended above the door and vary in size: Some are small and intended to hit at the head level, some are medium-sized and intended to hit at the torso level, and some are big and intended to hit at the whole body. These traps are tripwired to a closed door.

    7. Bamboo whip trap. A bamboo pole with spikes is bent and held under pressure at an arched position by a stick dug into ground, which in turn is connected to a tripwire. When the tripwire is triggered, the trap would spring into action, hitting soldier's leg/stomach/chest/depends on the individual trap.

    8. Arrow trap. A bamboo tube that hosts an arrow inside which is pressed against a taut string which in turn is connected to a tripwire. The specific part of soldier's body that gets hit depends on the position of the trap.

    9. Bucket trap. A metal bucket with nails at the sides. Same in function as vertical punji pit except that it's portable. It is buried in the ground, awaiting for someone's leg to be caught in it.

    All the spikes, stakes, nails and other pointy things in these traps are often covered in natural poisons, feces or corpse secretions to cause infection. Some of these traps (those that harm legs) are not mainly intended to kill but rather to render a soldier incapable of fighting and divert manpower for their evacuation.

41. #41Dogs in war

    Keys: Dog, Attack dog, Guard dog, Messenger dog, Sniffer dog, Rescue dog, Explosive dog, Anti-tank dog, Mercy dog

    Dogs were used by humans ever since they were domesticated. In antiquity, Greeks and Romans used dogs for guard and patrol duties. Some slave owners (Confederates, French in Saint-Domingue, British in Caribbean, Portuguese in South America) used dogs to hunt for escaped slaves.

    The specific dog roles are:

    1. Attack dog. Pretty self-explanitory.
    2. Guard dog. Pretty self-explanitory too. Difference from attack dogs is that Guard dogs' primary role is detection and deterrence rather than immediate charge and engagement.
    3. Messenger dog. Can be used not only for letters but for any object whose weight a dog can carry. Strapped with pouches.
    4. Sniffer dog. Used to detect explosives, drugs, living beings and other things.
    5. Rescue dog. First this concept was Invented during WW1. These dogs are sent to the battlefield's aftermath to seek out wounded soldiers. These dogs wear pouches with medical supplies.
    6. Explosive dog. A more extreme variant of an attack dog. Trained as suicide bombers to run at enemy troops/vehicles while carrying explosives on themselves.
42. #42Wire trap (not tripwire)

    Keys: Anti-motorcycle wire trap, Wire trap, Cable trap, Clothesline, Motorcycle trap, Traps

    Wire trap - not to be confused with a tripwire - is a trap used against people driving in motorcycles, quad bikes, or any other vehicle without any sort of protection in the front. A wire is stretched taut between two trees or any other fitting objects, each at their own side of the road. When a person drives into the taut wire trap, the following result depends on the speed, position of the wire and a protection on driver's body (if any); It may just push him down from their motorcycle and only leave them with some bruises, it may break some bones, or it may snap the neck or even decapitate the driver clean off. The protection measure against this simple trap is equally simple - A vertical metal bar is wielded to the front of the vehicle, which in turn gets into contact with the wire first and then snaps it. Driver is (mostly) safe from the wire trap not only if the vehicle has a windshield, but also if the driver is simply too short to reach wire's height with their body.

43. #43Cannon projectiles

    Keys: Cannon projectile, Cannonball, Heated shot, Molten iron shell, Canister shot, Lagrange shot, Chain shot

    1. Round Shot/Cannonball: A solid spherical projectile originally made by carving it from stone before switching to cast iron in 17th century. Round Shot does not explode or produce any shrapnel — its destructive power comes solely from its mass and tremendous velocity. 1.1. Heated Shot: Not a different projectile but rather the special way of shooting cast iron cannonballs after heating them red for the purpose of setting fire to enemy wooden warships buildings, or other equipment. It was rendered obsolete in the mid-19th century when vessels gradually began to have more and more iron on them, as well as invention of new ammunition. The use of heated shot was mainly confined to stationary roles like shore batteries and forts, due to the need for a special furnace to heat the cannonball, which would be a great hazard if placed on then-wooden vessels.
    2. Molten iron shells: These hollow shells were filled with molten iron from a cupola furnace and were intended to break up on impact, splashing molten iron on the target, setting fire and increasing area affected by a cannonball in general. After filling, the shells were left for a few minutes before firing, which allowed the metal in the filling hole to solidify and seal the hole. The shells remained effective even if an hour elapsed between filling and firing as, by this time, the filling would have solidified and the shell casing heated, making them equivalent to conventional heated shot. If even more time passes with cannonball still not being fired for some reason, then it fully solidifies and becomes just a regular cannonball by that moment. Molten steel shells were introduced to British Navy in 1860 and declared obsolete in 1869.
    3. Canister shot: An anti-infantry ammunition which is a closed metal cylinder filled with small round pellets (such as musket balls), essentially acting as a giant shotgun. This projectile had been used since at least the 16th century. Nails, scrap iron or lead, wire, and other similar metal objects can also be used instead of pellets. A variation of Canister shot that uses such metal objects is known as "Lagrange shot".
    4. Shell: A hollow cannonball filled with explosives. The use of exploding shells from field artillery became relatively commonplace from early in the 19th century.
    5. Chain shot: Two smaller cannonballs, or two halves of a regular cannonball, both connected by chain. When fired, the chain shot extends wide open. Chain shot was created to be used against sailing ships by damaging their masts, sails and other rigging. The military usefulness of chain shot died out as wooden sail-powered ships were replaced with armored steam ships.
44. #44Tachanka (yeah, that's what the dude from R6S is named after)

    Keys: Tachanka, World war one, World war 1, WW1

    A tachanka is a horse-drawn cart or an open wagon (just to clarify, cart has two wheels while wagon has four) with a heavy machine gun mounted on the rear side. A tachanka requires a crew of two (a driver and a machine gunner) and must be pulled by two to four horses. A regular civilian horse cart could be easily converted to military use and back. Tachankas were first used by Imperial Russian Army during World War 1 and then by pretty much all sides of the subsequent Civil War.

45. #45Camouflage tree

    Keys: Camouflage tree, Obserbation tree, Fake tree, World War One, World War 1, WW1

    Camouflage trees (also known as fake trees, false trees, and observation trees) are the observation posts that are camouflaged as trees. Invented during World War 1, dead trees were a common sight on the western front, which had led to the idea of creating observation trees. When a specific tree is chosen for this task, an exact replica of this tree gets built. After which, under the cover of night, a real tree is cut down and replaced by a replica. Cutting down and replacing has to be done in the same night specifically, because otherwise enemies would notice a tree disappearing and then somehow reappearing a day/few days later. As for the construction of a camouflage tree, it is a huge steel cylinder with a "tree" façade built over it. Inside of this hollow construction is a ladder for climbing to the periscope above. As for entering such a tree, there's a hole at the lower part of the tree trunk which is used by a soldier to get inside the observation post. "But how is the soldier supposed to get inside without enemies seeing it?" The tree is deliberately positioned in such a place where its lower part can't be seen from enemy's direction. As a final note, it has to be a pre-made replica specifically, because trying to turn an actual tree into a such observation post is a really bad idea.

46. #46Pen gun

    Keys: Pen gun, Pen pistol, Firearm

    A pen gun is a firearm that looks like an ink pen. They are made to fire a handgun cartridge and are single shot. Pros: Inconspicuous at the first glance. Cons: For very close range only due to lack of sights, heavier than an actual pen which might raise suspicions, can't write since the internal space for ink is replaced with a firing mechanism. Pen guns can be both homemade and factory-made.

47. #47Anti-tank grenade

    Keys: Anti-tank grenade, Explosives

    Anti-tank grenades are a specialized hand-thrown grenades used to defeat armored targets. Hand-thrown anti-tank grenades became redundant with the introduction of newer anti-tank weapons. Anti-tank grenade are made using the stick grenade layout, which means that they consist of a "stick" handle with a pin and a warhead on top. Anti-tank grenades use a shaped charge, which means that unlike with fragmentation grenades, which can just land near the target and still do damage upon detonation, anti-tank grenades have to hit a target directly. Not only that, but an anti-tank grenade also needs to hit a target with its top part specifically since that's how shaped charges work. To ensure that, there is a miniature drogue parachute tucked into a handle. After pulling the pin and throwing the grenade, it unfurls mid-flight and thus stabilizes an anti-tank grenade, ensuring that it hits with its top part against the target.

48. #48Dual-use technology

    Keys: Dual-use technology, Dual-use goods, Dual-use, Dual use, Embargo, Commercially available

    Dual-use technology is the term used to describe technologies that can be used for both civilian and military purposes. Some examples of Dual-use technologies are:

    1. Means of transportation: All of them. Anything that drives, swims, flies or in any other way can transport men and materiel.
    2. Everything electricity-based, including but not limited to: Computer parts, phones, cameras, radios, smartwatches, Unmanned vehicles (Ground, Waterborne, Aerial, etc.), satellite dishes, navigation devices, proximity sensors, metal detectors, flashlights, power tools, power cables, data storage devices (discs, flash drives, floppy disks, memory cards, etc.) batteries and even lightbulbs.
    3. Recreational gear: Tents, sleeping bags, portable stoves, backpacks, climbing equipment, diving gear, parachutes.
    4. Basic Tools: Tools like knives, axes, machetes, hammers and others can obviously serve as weapons apart from their original purpose.
    5. Camouflage clothing: pretty self-explanatory. What stops a combatant from wearing a camo jacket originally made for hunters, wildlife photographers or just people who like camouflage?
    6. Personal protection gear: Not things like body armor and ballistic helmets, which are more military-leaning, but rather pretty much anything that's intended to protect person's body, including but not limited to: hazmat suits, fireproof suits, gas masks, life jackets, welding masks, goggles, gloves, motorcycle helmets, knee and elbow pads, etc.
    7. Means of production: Sewing machines, 3D printers, lathe machines, lab equipment, etc.

    But how should one deal with dual-use technology? What to do with purely military materiel is obvious: if you see an enemy aircraft, pillbox, or radar station, you just destroy it. However, this blunt approach fails when applied to dual-use items because of their sheer ubiquity. It would be an absurd waste of time and resources for an army to hunt down every knife, backpack, bicycle, and phone just because they might be useful for the enemy. But despite that, on the other hand, it certainly still would be nicer if enemy had less knives, backpacks, bicycles and phones, right? Instead, the most effective way to deprive an enemy of these assets is through economic warfare. Rather than attempting to destroy what the opponent already possesses, it is far more efficient to prevent them from having new ones with the use of sanctions, embargoes, blockades and other such economic measures.

49. #49Helmet writing

    Keys: Helmet writing, helmet graffiti, helmet art, Vietnam war

    While the idea of adding a personal touch to one's gear isn't novice, it's the Vietnam War that saw an en-masse helmet writings phenomenon done with black marker pens, such as:

    1. "Make love, not war" and variations.
    2. "Born to..." variations.
    3. "War is good business, invest your son!"
    4. "Hear all evil. See all evil. Kill all evil."
    5. "War is hell"
    6. Names of Wives and Girlfriends.
    7. Names of Hometowns and/or Home States.
    8. Deployment calendar. Explanation: A standard tour of duty in Vietnam was 12 months for a regular soldier (13 months for marines), so it was common to write all the upcoming months in a small column somewhere on a helmet, starting with the month of arrival and ending with the expected month of rotation, eventually crossing out months as time passes.
    9. Names of bands/songs/musicians of the era.
    10. "Short-timer" (Context: "Short-timer" is the term for a person who's got less than 100 days of service left in Vietnam)
    11. "The Lord is my pointman" (Context: "Pointman" in Vietnam is a person who walks in front of an infantry unit, leading the way and detecting traps. Naturally, pointmen are chosen from more skilled and competent ones.)
    12. "Caution: Vietnam may be hazardous to your health!"
    13. "Shit happens"
    14. "I am become death"
    15. "kill them all and let God sort them out"
    16. Patriotic slogans: "In god we trust", "Democracy harbinger", "God bless America"
    17. Self-aware ones: "What are you reading here?", "Sorry for wasting good pen, sarge", "Hey, eyes on the battlefield!", "Can we have pink markers next?"
    18. Soldiers' nicknames.
    19. "When I die I'll go to heaven, because I've already spent my time in hell."

    As a final note, helmet writings phenomenon is not Vietnam-exclusive, but rather just popularized by Vietnam war. They can also authentically fit in other scenarios if these writings are adapted for the current context. (e.g. It won't make sense to make writings about Vietcong during Iraq War, will it?)

50. #50Tank desant

    Keys: Tank desant, Troops on tanks, Tactic

    Tank desant is a combined arms tactic where infantry soldiers ride to the battle on top of tanks and then dismount to fight on foot during the battle itself.

    After the invention of the newer types of military vehicles, this tactic became rare in well-equipped armed forces, with front-line troops usually riding in armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, or other armored vehicles, which provide the same function of defending and fighting alongside tanks but with more firepower and protection. The important point here is "well-equipped", since tank desant is still quite useful if there's not enough vehicles.

    It is important to note that tank desant doesn't stay on tanks during the battle itself since a tank obviously draws enemy attention. They only arrive to the battle like that, after which they disembark and act like an infantry.

    As a bonus, infantry riding on tanks can also provide support in case of an ambush.

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