2021/02/06

Link drop February 2020

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china-defense.blogspot.com/2020/12/exoskeleton-equipped-china-army-border.html

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www.warfare.today/2020/06/07/usaf-experiments-with-palletized-weapons/

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www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses (NOT spam; maybe there's something for you in there)

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 I considered to write a mil history post about the anomaly of Japanese warriors not using shields in an age of intense archery threats (Samurai body armour was very much like shields attached to the body). Then I learned that they did use some shields, after all:

gunbai-militaryhistory.blogspot.com/2017/12/tate-tedate-japanese-shields.html 

Those looked rudimentary, though the pavise-like big shields for arquebusiers seem like a pretty good idea.

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Read this powerful account, please:

www.salon.com/2021/01/16/the-selective-restraint-of-american-police-on-display-at-the-capitol-riot-amazed-me/

This is one of its links:

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right

I have absolutely no doubt that the tonfa is more loose in Germany when opposed to left wing activists than with right wing activists. The exception may be large anti-nazi counterprotests.

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[German] www.der-postillon.com/2021/02/von-der-leyen.html


 

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1 comment:

  1. Japanese shields are a mix of shared influences in design with Koryak, Polynesian and Philipine designs showing the neighbours of different groups that settled the island and influenced its culture. The Koryak are an example of the cultures north of Japan, while the oblong shields probably go back to common Austronesian roots influencing the south. It's interesting that despite contact with cultures utilizing round shields, these seem not to have become popular in Japan.
    Japanese shields remind me of ancient Egypt that had a similar approach of launching lots of arrows.
    Other than round shields, javelins also seem to lack in depictions from Japan. Maybe there's a connection between utilizing both kinds of tools in loose skirmishing warfare that wasn't part of the Japanese approach to conflict.

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