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During WWII, American air corps personnel routinely painted sharks' mouths on their ground attack aircraft which demoralized Japanese troops.
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German helmets were quite intimidating. The spike made the wearer look taller
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German helmets were quite intimidating. The spike made the wearer look taller


I've always thought they made the Germans look sillier.  Real psychological warfare is best seen in the uniforms of special tactical units  -identical, heavily armed, faceless men dressed all in black.  (Good thing they settled on a nice, manly color like black.  Imagine some of the other possibilities!)



The Japanese understood the psychology factor very well, it seems:





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Originally posted by Nick1986

 
 
All warfare is psychological...  always has been always will be. If any don't believe that.. go find out. Assuming one is old enough to enlist that is. Warfare or the psychology of it is not merely learned thru reading texts and opining or writing about it. It requires experience to truly understand that.
If you live thru it...you will know.
 
 
 
What makes it 'pc' to spout the obvious and demonstrate concern feign or actual; is merely the nexus or the justification that the psycho-babblers need to earn a living. That's for the amateur. 
 
 
Professionals...real professionals, have known this and used it to their advantage for thousands of years. Only the methodology has changed and that not by much.
 
 
 
 
 
As for the pics provided by MM....your only intimated by that or those like that if you have not been trained to deal with them and or eliminate them. And...er...uhm....ya don't learn that in books either.
 
Takes training and discipline.
 
Tis called 'life experience and professional credentialing'.... tho that's not necessarily viewed with appreciation by many. Iow. amateurs need not apply.
 
 
Besides a couple of Mescaleros in the dark, on their ground, have them lads pissing in their boots.Wink
 
 
 
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King Goujian of Yue would have criminals that had been sentenced to death form the front rank of his army, and then order them to decapitate themselves just as the enemy closed for battle  O_o



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Impressive. But not necessarily a commendable usage of manpower..even tho criminal.
Better use... was hand them sword and order them to charge. Survivors are pardoned. Refusals are ordered to behead themselves on the spot. Same effect for the enema. And a morale booster for his army, especially the criminals, as well.
 
 
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German helmets were quite intimidating. The spike made the wearer look taller


I've always thought they made the Germans look sillier.  Real psychological warfare is best seen in the uniforms of special tactical units  -identical, heavily armed, faceless men dressed all in black.  (Good thing they settled on a nice, manly color like black.  Imagine some of the other possibilities!)



The Japanese understood the psychology factor very well, it seems:





The Germans had the all-black look nailed too. There's the uniforms of Napoleonic Hussars, the SS and Gestapo
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The Mexican Army used music to demoralize an enemy.  Before a big battle, they would play a specific melody that told the enemy that they would be given no quarter the next day.

Unfortunately, that tactic failed at Camerone.
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The British Army has always used the Bagpipes, Germans in the trenches of WWI reported how the sound sank their spirits. What confuses me is how they don't sink the British Amy's spirits too.

A much older British Army sank the Roman's spirits, Caesar's troops refused to land until one flag barer advanced alone and Paulinus's troops refused the same a century later. It seems a combinations of druid incantations, woad, screeching battle cries and women with torches running between the ranks unnerved even the finest army ever.


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The British Army has always used the Bagpipes, Germans in the trenches of WWI reported how the sound sank their spirits. What confuses me is how they don't sink the British Amy's spirits too.

A much older British Army sank the Roman's spirits, Caesar's troops refused to land until one flag barer advanced alone and Paulinus's troops refused the same a century later. It seems a combinations of druid incantations, woad, screeching battle cries and women with torches running between the ranks unnerved even the finest army ever.

The Huns were also terrified by kilt-wearing Highlanders. They called them "Ladies from hell"
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The British Army has always used the Bagpipes, Germans in the trenches of WWI reported how the sound sank their spirits. What confuses me is how they don't sink the British Amy's spirits too.

A much older British Army sank the Romans spirits, Caesar's troops refused to land until one flag barer advanced alone and Paulinus troops refused the same a century later. It seems a combinations of druid incantations, woad, screeching battle cries and women with torches running between the ranks unnerved even the finest army ever.
 
Ah yes the ever present tale of naked blue painted Britons. Howling forth from the mists and foggy woods screaming like maniacs. probably on some sort of regional hallucinogenic. As it's always been believed woad was the culprit. Similar reference the Gaesatae. Tho evidence now has shown that orange paint might have been used as well as blue.
 
 
Apaches were much quieter and liked to burn their victims alive over a fire often times tied to a nasty cactus (follywood, inaccurate as ever, often times used a wagon wheel in lieu of)...they need make no noise as that was being done by the victim.
 
Very effective as the carcass usually remained tied to the device of restrainment and was left for the non-Apache or whites to find later. Walls of burnt out way stages or ranch structures were often used.
 
 
From the current, modern perspective; it's more effective to water-board.
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