Thread 63917760

What is the least aesthetic war of all time? Iraq 2.0 was pretty bland

There are no unaesthetic wars, because men love war.

ukraine has been pretty drab outside of the initial invasion. it doesn't help that everyone looks the same.

>>63917778
this. All wars are KINO

>>63917849
some are just more kino than others.

>>63917760 (OP)
the aesthetic wars and conflicts post-1900 are, in order from most aesthetic to least:
>Vietnam, the OG
>Chechnya I
>Gothic Serpent
>Desert Shield/Desert Storm
>Rhodesian Bush War
>WWII Euro Front
>OEF/OIF
>Chechnya II
>WWII Pacific front
>Benghazi
>Soviet Afghanistan
>Ukraine 2022
>Korean War
>WWI
>Panama

Everything Sub-Panama isn't really worth mentioning

>>63917790
>ukraine has been pretty drab outside of the initial invasion. it doesn't help that everyone looks the same.
ukraine is pretty fuckin sweet actually, from most of the shit I've seen it's a pretty interesting split between ukrainian legion/spetsnaz/azov dudes kitted out in drippy operator gear clearing villages out and periodically taking totally unequipped russians prisoner
it's a shame nothing is coming out of russia because I'd like to see if there's a similar highspeed SF/SOF component operating on that side or if most of their experienced guys died to the first six months. it seems like all they have left is motostrelki and conscripts

>>63917778
All men know that play is superior to work.

>>63917760 (OP)
The Falklands war was pretty boring.

>>63917760 (OP)
probably ww1 and 2 because they were in black and white

>>63917878
Yugoslavia should be two (one)

>>63917933
>The Falklands war was pretty boring.

>air-to-air and naval combat between two Western militaries
>amphibious warfare kino
>literal hand-to-hand combat on Mount Tumbledown
>Argie pilots refusing to fire on a cruise liner converted into a troopship because the British hadn't bothered repainting it yet
>Bravo November

>>63918010
>Argie pilots refusing to fire on a cruise liner converted into a troopship because the British hadn't bothered repainting it yet
The ever perfidious albion...

>>63918014
merely a time constraint

The Falklands War was like an Pacific War island hopping battle but without the sun, palm trees and fanatical enemy with mazes of defensive positions.

>>63917760 (OP)
The Sino-India conflict is of course the ugliest because they are two shithouse countries playing a massive game of schoolyard snitch chicken, on drab, barren himalayan rocks that have had all their natural beauty stripped out of them, and they beat eachother to death with zero order or battlefield coordination.

Honorable mention to whatever the fuck is happening in Myanmar which looks so boring it seems they just take prolonged breaks on fighting the war.

>>63918010
I've seen evictions with more action than that in the states

>>63917878
>I'd like to see if there's a similar highspeed SF/SOF component operating on that side
>it seems like all they have left is motostrelki and conscripts

Then you haven't been looking hard enough,the ruskies got highspeed guys too, but they are not as good at putting out kino as the ukrainians are, granted. But SSO guys are going behind the lines just like ukie SSO does. Vympel was spotted in Mariupol wearing a mix of regular issue gear to blend in and their own gucci gear. The russians uploaded a montage a year or two ago where SSO guys in leaf suits and kitted out rifles was going around in the ukrainian backline ambushing patrols and blowing up bridges. Pretty gnarly footage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/16capv7/compilation_of_russian_ambushes_on_ukrainian/

>inb4 reddit

I'll get so much shit of this, or just be accused of baiting, but I think the general fashion of the early 19th century was shit. The pants up the high waist and coats that end at the bottom chest just look bad. These tall hats are dumb looking compared to what came before and after.

>>63917778
The good book does indeed count war an evil, said Irving. Yet there’s many a bloody tale of war inside it.
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.

>>63919113
The fuck is that pistol holster?

>>63919262
*tips fedora*
you, sir, win the internet

>>63917760 (OP)
Wars with solid colour combat fatigues are aesthetic, wars with camo are unaesthetic. The reverse is true for vehicles and aircraft.

>>63919270
Think it's a Stechkin machine pistol.
Could be wrong.

>>63919270
its attached to the duffel bag, it looks like a generic universal holster you'd find on amazon.

>>63917878
>Pacific front that low
Do you hate aircraft?

>>63919113
I think they stopped specifically because there was a video afterward showing all those guys dead after they got caught right? Or am I thinking of another group.

>>63917760 (OP)
Late GWOT, easily. It was the peak of the rot of military capabilities, preparedness, competence, doctrine, morale, etc. not just in the US but also globally, and it showed in the aesthetics. Also drove some of the dumbest trends in both military discussion and civilian shooting circles.
The only historical example off the top of my head that sort of matches this feeling of despair, apathy, and weakness is the immediate post-Vietnam US military, though that period's aesthetics has gained its own following in recent years. Maybe in the future it'll gain its own following too.
>>63917939
WWII had color photography and also colorized B&W film.
>>63917878
It sounds like you don't care much for non-infantry stuff.

>>63917760 (OP)
It had more the feel of a police operation. Afghanistan too

>>63919727
>Or am I thinking of another group
They were both SSO Senezh if I remember correctly, but I don't think it was the same squad, judging by the weapons. Of course the other guys may be dead too who knows. But I think the main reason we don't as much of those videos anymore is because the frontline is so static, and there are drones with thermals everywhere, which makes it hard not to get spotted. That is what happened to that squad that got killed, spotted by drones and then the ukrainians set up a ambush on them.

>>63917760 (OP)
the Chaco War is very drab and disappointing in all the media taken during it. You'd think South American modern warfare would be kino, but all the photos are just starving peasants in the middle of the desert.

>>63919113
nice
>>63919270
it looks like he's got a smersh rig which means he'd either need a drop-leg holster or no pistol since the smersh obstructs his waistline
>>63919534
>>63920109
>Do you hate aircraft?
>It sounds like you don't care much for non-infantry stuff.
I mean, infantry is the backbone for what makes most wars aesthetic but the core component of why Vietnam and the Bush War were so cool was vietnam's air cavalry and gunships and the Bush War's infantry skydiving out of shitty cessnas
Desert Storm also is so high because yeah the PASGT aesthetic but it was the single largest combined arms and aerial campaign of any war since WWII and pretty much every single aircraft in the US arsenal saw combat use short of the SR-71 and F22

I'm also reassessing the WWII Pac front. It deserves to be higher if only because of Ten Go, the Yamato, and just the overall insanity of the late Japanese part of the war in their plan to beach the Yamato and turn it into a fucking coastal artillery emplacement

>>63917778
fpbp

Iraq 2 felt like a shitty DLC for Afghan War. New maps and they added a few new pieces of gear, reskined some enemy types.

>>63919262
how did every single fucking zoomer discover that book at the same time. blood meridian is old as fuck. kys anyone under the age of 35

>>63917790
I miss the VDV uniforms. Now everything is multicam hell.

>>63919163
I am generally a fan of the late 19th century. 1870-WWI basically. The better tailored jackets that went to the hip or mid thigh with good padded chests and waist suppression. Prince Albert Victor in his Hussars uniform for example. But also what the Americans and Imperial Japanese were wearing. The Brits and Germans with the plain field equipment. On parade the nobility was even more ornate than they used to be, but on the battlefield a more pragmatic utilitarianism was beginning to take shape.

>>63924768
Youtubers who read the book made videos about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpH7ADaiE2M
GWOT goes hard when you give it the Vietnam treatment

>>63917933
>The Falklands war was pretty boring.
What? First of all, no. Second of all, are you kidding me, man!? The Falklands War was kino as fuck. Cold War fighters. British troops in that 80s camo they used to wear. Capital ships blowing up! PENGUINS. That war was awesome and very few civilians died in it.
https://youtu.be/APs3qbAE1FY

America in WWII was pretty dire. The Sherman is ugly. The shiny planes are l33t gamer skins for children. The uniforms and weapons lacked any kind of character. This is why I hate the Pacific part of the war, because it's so drab

>>63917760 (OP)
Panama

>>63929622
No war is cool or awesome

>>63917760 (OP)
Marawi 2017
Just watched some documentary about it on youtube. Nothing noteworthy really happened, lasted only 6 months, and flew by everyones radar.

>>63917878
>ww1 2nd to last
What a faggot. This looks evil as hell.
Imagine being some 16 year old kraut that lied about his age to get into the army and now you are on sentry duty in the middle of the night and see some weird bug eyed fuzzy thing running at you with a knife trying to kill you.

>>63919163
Chicks dig high pants on dudes because it makes your dick look bigger.

>>63933104
there was a filipino marine on here who fought there. I'm sure his stories are somewhere in the ar/k/ive