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There was no conscription and the army was extremely selective, recruiting soldiers from ethnic groups with supposedly inherent military qualities, the so-called "martial races." In the 1920s and 1930s, martial races included the Kamba, Kalenjin, and Somali, pastoral semi-pastoral groups from impoverished regions. In contrast, Kikuyu and Meru ...
Martial music or military music is a specific genre of music intended for use in military settings performed by professional soldiers called field musicians. Much of the military music has been composed to announce military events as with bugle calls and fanfares , or accompany marching formations with drum cadences , or mark special occasions ...
During 407 BC, when the Roman army was divided into three parts and sent to plunder the enemies' territory under the command of three of the four military Tribunes (Lucius Valerius Potitus headed for Anzio, Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus headed for Ecetra, and Numerius Fabius Ambustus attacked and conquered Anxur, leaving the prey to the soldiers of all three armies), the stipend for the soldiers was ...
Nepal Army's Guruju Paltan (a ceremonial infantry company) in traditional uniform Khukuri, Karda and Chakmak.Khukuri is the symbolic weapon of the Nepali Army. The Nepali Army (Nepali: नेपाली सेना, romanized: Nēpālī Sēnā), also referred as the Gorkhali Army (गोरखाली सेना, Gōrakhālī Sēnā; see Gorkhas), is the land service branch of the Nepali ...
The Sasanian army was the primary military body of the Sasanian armed forces, serving alongside the Sasanian navy.The birth of the army dates back to the rise of Ardashir I (r. 224–241), the founder of the Sasanian Empire, to the throne.
Soldiers of the Imperial Korean Army in 1898 US Army drawing showing ROKA soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War, 1966 ROKA soldiers with a 57 mm anti-tank gun during the Korean War, 1950. The Republic of Korea Army traces its lineage back to the Gwangmu Reform, when the Pyŏlgigun was established by Emperor Gojong in 1881.
Serbian Army soldiers during 2015 Combined Resolve IV exercise at the US Army Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Germany Serbian Army soldiers during 2018 Slavic Brotherhood exercise at the Russian Army Rayevsky Training Center in Russia. Mixed Artillery Brigade. Command Battalion (Niš) 1st Howitzer-Cannon Artillery Battalion (Niš)
The song, presumably sung by British Commonwealth soldiers, can be heard during "The Desert: North Africa", the eighth episode of the documentary series The World at War. Folk singer Lead Belly performed the song (as "Gee, But I Want to Go Home" or "Army Life" [3]) on several 1940s recordings.