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Are there any good resources for finding visual representations of Union Army officer uniforms from the Civil War? Either photographs or paintings/drawings? Particularly interested in what an infantry Captain would have worn into battle.
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The 2020 TV series “The Defeated” is about an NYPD cop sent to postwar Berlin to train the new German police. Was there any such law enforcement advising effort in either Germany or Japan?
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How were scouts employed on both sides of the American Revolution? What was the doctrine/best practices for scouting & reconnaissance in that era?
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After the USSR’s collapse, how was the Red Army’s inventory of equipment and vehicles divvied up amongst the newly independent states? Or did it all pass by default to Russian possession?
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Regarding the Pope’s call for the First Crusade, was there any resistance amongst Catholics to defending the “apostate” Orthodox Church?
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Popular understanding of the Vietnam War holds that US forces were unable to adapt to guerrilla warfare on both the tactical & strategic level. How accurate is this?
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What was the tactical role of cavalry in pre-gunpowder armies? Did it change over the centuries, and was there variations amongst different cultures?
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Is there any truth to the claim that Greek philosophy resulted from the Greeks encountering other cultures whose values & customs differed from Greek ones, which in turn prompted the Greeks to think more deeply about the nature of these things?
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Why did the Vikings feel the need to raid and settle other lands? Was there not enough land or war booty to be had in Scandinavia?
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