>>507483324>Why do we march?We don't outside of purely ceremonial guard units.
Precision marching is a vestigial holdover from the Napoleonic era when soldiers weren't expected to do more than go where they were told to, stay there, and shoot in a particular direction when ordered to. Believe it or not forcing your soldiers to spend countless hours practicing gay little marching routines isn't the best use of their time if you actually want them to be effective soldiers in modern warfare.
>Why do so many countries still do it then?because they're poor.
Training your soldiers to march in neat little rows is cheaper than buying the ammunition required to train them to use their weapons effectively, and military parades offer a more immediately obvious ROI to 90 IQ shitskin dear leader, than training an actually effective military that on first glance does do anything other than sit around all day "wasting" millions of dollars worth of ammunition every year on target practice.
>but ChinaChina's military has only recently begun to modernize. As time goes on precision drill will become less and less of a priority as more money gets devoted to training their entire military to a professional standard.