#Imperial Army/Navy

[sidonius5]

ℐ 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒥𝒶𝓅𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝒜𝓃𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓁𝓁𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓇𝑔𝑒𝑜𝓊𝓈...

[archeo-starwars]

Imperial Sourcebook

[cid5]

Japanese troops guard American and Filipino prisoners in Bataan in the Philippines after their capture on 9th April 1942.

[nando161mando]

Military industrial complex

[tenth-sentence]

English imperialists on their mad career escorted by armies and navies had already persuaded themselves that they were innately superior to all women, Jewish peoples, Irish peoples, some Asian peoples and people of the first nations in the Americas, and in Australia.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[professorambrius]

Star Wars Villains

My favoriet Star Wars Villains.

Happy May the 4th!

[clove-pinks]

I am on the NMM website a lot, and while looking for something else I came across this portrait of Captain William Peel again.

I have The Sea Beast fresh in my mind with its theme of empire demanding/glorifying heroic sacrifice, and it hits a bit differently. I have seen this painting presented as the ne plus ultra of imperialism: the naval officer with his sword, illuminated in a tropical scene and leading troops to crush a rebellion of the colonised people; he is literally holding a pith helmet. At least the superior first edition of Amy Miller's Dressed to Kill has commentary on this portrait.

But it's a posthumous portrait.

Captain Peel wasn't basking in adulation when this was made, wasn't enjoying the acclaim of his Victoria Cross: he was dead. He has a magnificent statue as well, even more dashing than the portrait, and surely his powerful family had a lot to do with memorialising him—but he still died. He didn't make it home to the metropole.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"MINIATURE SUBMARINES, a Shinto Shrine, chopsticks and Jap characters and wrecked Zeroes were all left behind by the hastily departing enemy on Kiska. American bombs that preceded our troop landings accounted for much of the damage to Jap installations. Sgt. Edmond Birdsell of San Francisco tries out the chopsticks on a bowl of Jap rice, stores of which were found by U.S. forces." - from the Kingston Whig-Standard. September 9, 1943. Page 2.

[normalguycore]

Fascinating stuff really

[secondworldwarremembrancedays]

Remember the Battle of Midway: June 1942.

Midway was a catastrophic defeat from which the Imperial Japanese Navy never fully recovered. Much of the credit goes to the codebreakers who revealed the Japanese plan to ambush U.S. forces in time for the Allies to plan a counter-ambush. The Japanese plan to split American forces also failed.

The U.S. then launched a major air assault on the Japanese carriers. The TBF Avenger torpedo bombers were intercepted by Japanese Zeroes and decimated, but the SBD Dauntless dive bombers attacking afterward got through. They arrived just as the Japanese planes were refueling and rearming on deck. Three of four Japanese carriers were destroyed, tilting the course of the war against Japan.

[pumpacti0n]

Renegade Cut - Don't Join The Military

[lilithism1848]

[archeo-starwars]

Imperial Sourcebook

[kneedeepincynade]

The USA and its little puppets are growing more and more eager to fight and since provocation inevitably leads to confrontation, soon they will have to. But they will not survive the war China will unleash against them

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⚠️ PROVOCAZIONE STATUNITENSE: INVIATO UN CACCIATORPEDINIERE NEL MARE CINESE MERIDIONALE | L'ESERCITO CINESE INVIA NAVI DA GUERRA PER SPINGERLO FUORI DALLE ACQUE TERRITORIALI CINESI ⚠️

🇺🇸 Oggi, 23 marzo, il Cacciatorpediniere statunitense Milius, di Classe Arleigh Burke, è entrato nell'area delle Isole Paracel, nel Mar Cinese Meridionale, per provocare la Marina Militare dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione 🌟

🇨🇳 Poco dopo, le Navi da Guerra dell'Esercito Cinese sono state inviate dal Comando Meridionale per spingere fuori dalle acque territoriali Cinesi l'intruso statunitense 🔥

❕ Inoltre, cinque aerei da ricognizione statunitensi sono stati notati, dai Radar dell'Esercito Cinese, nello Spazio Aereo sopra il Mar Cinese Meridionale:

✈️ RC-135U, utilizzato dagli USA anche per la ricognizione delle attività della Federazione Russa 🤔

✈️ Boeing RC-135V - utilizzato anche nel 2022, in queste date: 19/09 | 22/11 | 05/12 🤔

✈️ Due Lockheed EP-3 Orion 🤔

✈️ ✈️ P-8A, "Poseidon", che - tra l'altro è stato utilizzato dagli USA anche il 26/09 del 2022, alle ore 03:03 (MSK), in un sorvolo sul Mare del Nord proprio quando i sismologi svedesi registrarono un'esplosione sottomarina a Sud-Est dell'Isola di Bornholm, nel Mar Baltico ❕

🌟 Tian Junli - Portavoce del Comando Meridionale dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione - ha affermato che le Forze del Comando Meridionale manterranno costantemente un elevato livello di allerta, e che adotteranno tutte le misure necessarie per proteggere la Sovranità Nazionale, la Pace e la Stabilità nel Mar Cinese Meridionale 🔥

💡 Questa sera, alle 20:30, post molto importante sul Collettivo Shaoshan 🌺

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

⚠️ US PROVOCATION: DESTROYER SENT TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEA | CHINESE ARMY SENDS WARSHIP TO PUSH IT OUT OF CHINESE TERRITORIAL WATERS ⚠️

🇺🇸 Today, March 23, the US Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Milius entered the Paracel Islands area in the South China Sea to provoke the People's Liberation Army Navy 🌟

🇨🇳 Soon after, Chinese Army Warships were sent by the Southern Command to push the US intruder out of Chinese territorial waters 🔥

❕ Additionally, five US reconnaissance aircraft were spotted by Chinese Army Radar in the Airspace over the South China Sea:

✈️ RC-135U, also used by the USA for reconnaissance of the activities of the Russian Federation 🤔

✈️ Boeing RC-135V - also used in 2022, on these dates: 19/09| 22/11 | 05/12 🤔

✈️ Two Lockheed EP-3 Orions 🤔

✈️ ✈️ P-8A, "Poseidon", which - among other things, was also used by the USA on 09/26/2022, at 03:03 (MSK), in a flight over the North Sea just when the Swedish seismologists recorded an underwater explosion southeast of Bornholm Island, in the Baltic Sea ❕

🌟 Tian Junli - Southern Command spokesman of the People's Liberation Army - said that the Southern Command Forces will constantly maintain a high level of alert, and will take all necessary measures to protect National Sovereignty, Peace and Stability in the South China Sea 🔥

💡 Tonight at 20:30 very important post about Shaoshan Collective 🌺

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

[nando161mando]

The federal government has been gradually surrendering our military sovereignty to the United States.

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Temeraire by Naomi Novik (2006-2016)

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Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire. 

 Capt. Will Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.

 Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands. The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland, Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?

Wayside School by Louis Sachar (1978-2020)

There was a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead, it was built with the thirty classrooms all on top of each other - thirty stories high! That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens at Wayside School. Especially, on the thirteenth floor. It is a school full of unusual characters too. Mrs Gorf the meanest teacher in the world. Terrible Todd who always gets sent home early. John who can only read upside down.

Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black (2002-2007)

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces them back to Kaye's childhood home. But Kaye's life takes another turn when she stumbles upon an injured faerie knight in the woods. Kaye has always been able to see faeries where others could not, and she chooses to save the strange young man instead of leaving him to die. 

But this fateful choice will have more dire consequences than she could ever predict, as Kaye soon finds herself the unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms--a struggle that could very well mean her death.

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist (1982-1986)

My name is Pug. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician...

War is coming to the Kingdom of the Isles from another world, bringing with it chaos and destruction. Pug yearns to train as a warrior and fight for his kingdom alongside his foster-brother, Tomas, but instead he is forced to follow a different path: a path that will lead him right into the heart of the enemy. And one that will change the course of the war - and two worlds - forever.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (2009-2011)

It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. 

 Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battle-torn Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men. 

 Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. 

 With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way...taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure. One that will change both their lives forever.

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede (1985-1993)

Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (2020-present)

Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.

In an attempt to prove himself a true brujo and gain his family’s acceptance, Yadriel decides to summon his cousin’s ghost and help him cross to the afterlife.

But things get complicated when he accidentally summons the ghost of his high school’s resident bad boy, Julian Diaz – and Julian won't go into death quietly.

The two boys must work together if Yadriel is to move forward with his plan.

But the more time Yadriel and Julian spend together, the harder it is to let each other go.

The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (2003-2004)

After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they've just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there's a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to our own--the world of faerie. 

The Grace children want to share their story, but the faeries will do everything possible to stop them...

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (2012-2015)

Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.

Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs, the captain of the Queen's Guard. While they begin to uncover a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect the secret behind her musical gift--a secret so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.

The Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (1996-2022)

Gen can steal anything—at least that's the boast he's made in wineshops across the capital city, and this bragging has landed him in the king's prison. His chances of escape look slim—even for someone of his talents. When he is invited to join a quest to steal an object straight out of a legend, he's hardly in a position to refuse.