Two modern day recruitment adverts, one for the British Army and one for the Chinese Army.......which one is going to attract the kind of people who are going to win battles? What on earth is going on today.

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Pray to our non existent god that we don't have to win battles using anyone attracted to the Army by adverts like this.

The Russians and Chinese are no doubt laughing at us.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I said it before, would you rather we treated our soldiers like we did in WWI/WWII, or even as the Chinese do now?

The Chinese one made me cringe. Like it's aimed at 12-year old boys. Looks like fun though but about as realistic as an episode of Eastenders

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Is that the Chinese 'Falcao' doing the rap on that video?

Edit - sorry, 'Falco' I meant ('Rock Me Amadeus'). That's a 'Mark' against me.

Edited by YT (01 Feb 2018 11.50am)

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Mental illness.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I doubt the majors have changed. Probably more the emotional intelligence or acceptance of people in the group are different to alpha male only Tom Beringer or Matt Damon types in Platoon. (Just an extreme. British soldiers are no doubt highly disciplined, professional and responsible soldiers as you see on tv)

You always hear how civilians are surprised what they can do in war when they have to. There isn't much Russian wrestling in modern warfare now.

Maybe they could've included a few unemployed northerners going into the army but I doubt that advert would stop them joining. They're just widening the target audience.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (01 Feb 2018 1.11pm)

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I don't like the title but the army is a bit like a family isn't it? Especially for young men who have left home and may not have had much experience of life.
On another note I saw the ads designed to attract muslims into the army - I didn't like them.
I don't like the film style of the adverts now. Preferred the ones where people jump out of armoured cars. I was in the army several years. The closest I got to an armoured car was lying down next to a column of tanks as it trundled past on Salibury plain and looking in a captured Iraqi one.
As for winning wars we all seem to have missed the point of WW2. The highest trained, motivated, co-ordinated and best equipied army of WW2 lost to the mass hordes with poorly made equipment of the Allies. Mainly the Soviets. We seem to think that well-trained soldiers and better equipment guarantee us a win, in reality China or even North-Korea could probably overrun most western armies within a few days. Not because we are rubbish or we have emotions, but because there are millions of them and a couple of hundred thousand of us.

Red and Blue Army!