Has a civilization in history ever honored (as a tradition) the enemy soldiers they've slain? As in, performing rituals or ceremonies for the deceased.
If so, which one(s)?
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>>735820
Wouldn't Aztec sacrifice sort of count?
>>735820
In recent history Turks did that for Anzac while fighting in Gallipoli Campaign. Which is one of the reasons why Turkey didn't have problems with Australia afterwards.
Nguni warriors in southern africa refused to mutilate the corpses of invading white men.
When asked why they said it was something only brave men can understand.
>>735859
They didbt want to eat europian aids?
>>735820
I remember seeing on /k/ IJA performing burials for KMT soldiers who'd died in battle. Even if it was purely for propaganda purposes it was neat.
Argentinian troops honoring KIA brit pilot in 1982 war
I know Caesar gave Pompey full funeral rites befitting a >consul of Rome
Also can't remember which emperor but one of the Eastern Roman emperors gave a Gothic king a proper funeral with honors as a show of good faith to other goths.
>>736054
that's cool
>>736054
ataturk is really amazing, compared to how thirsty for infidel blood turks were since the fall of constantinople and onwards
>>736352
Atatürk has always reminded me of a grand strategy player character.
>Defeat foreign powers, what is this, a tutorial
>Reform laws
>Reform traditions
>Fuck it, reform everything
>upgrade the alphabet too, +5% research
>>735820
The Red Baron was given a proper military funeral by the Allied forces that shot him down. As for civilization I can't think of an entire one, but most have given certain foes the honor.
The Afrika Korps gave proper burial to downed RAF pilots, as well as tank crews (I think).
>>735820
Didn't most peoples allow for the collection of their dead and enemies after battles? That should count.
>Stop, O people, that I may give you ten rules for your guidance in the battlefield. Do not commit treachery or deviate from the right path. You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees, nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful. Slay not any of the enemy's flock, save for your food. You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.
>When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.
>When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
>One should not attack chariots with cavalry; chariot warriors should attack chariots. One should not assail someone in distress, neither to scare him nor to defeat him ... War should be waged for the sake of conquest; one should not be enraged toward an enemy who is not trying to kill him.
>>736450
>Get bored.
>Let the AI manage things for a while.
>Years of coups and Islamism follows.
>>736888
To be fair the coups were mostly military keeping leftists and islamists at bay.
>>736937
How did he managed to create a military that loyally followed his ideology nearly 80 years after he died?
>>736952
esprit de corps motherfucker
>>735836
I actually realy like that one. Decent man who respects the sacrifices not only his men but also the enemy soldiers did.
“Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives. You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours,
You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears,
Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well”.
>>735820
In Civil Wars you will see it a lot. Caesar buried Labineus after Munda.
Shit happens all the time in war, and often times against the direct orders of commanders.
Pic related: Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler sees a low flying B-17 pass overhead while refueling. Takes off, catches up with it, and realizes that it was FUCKED up. Rudder was fucked, elevators fucked, shot full of holes, none of the gunners were manning their guns, just a mess. Dude treated the crew as if they were under a parachute, didn't shoot them down, and escorted them out of German air space so they wouldn't be targeted by German flack.
There's all kinds of examples of shit like this that's happened throughout history, but it usually occurs between professional armies, not guerrilla forces, though that can happen too.
Samurai had respect for their enemies.
>>735997
swhows that ameriniggers are on the same level as goat fuckers and deserved 9/11
I know the ancient greeks used to stop all ofenses on both side when nighttime would come to mend their wounds and burry their deads.
>>735820
Military ettiquette in East Asia only extended among, well, fellow East Asians.
It was massacre and genocide for the likes of Nomads.
They deserved it though.
>>737144
That is incredible.
>>737731
t. shimazaki
>>737733
You should see what that squad of troops did to your Mother...
>>737733
Because war is this honorable and glorious thing where one side would NEVER commit heinous acts right?
You live in a fantasy if you think any country, group or faction never stooped to their enemies level of savagery in war. Those who have never been theough the fires of combat wouldn't know and those who have wouldn't tell you about it anyways
>>738265
Ow the edge man. Shooting people is fun, adrenaline rush and stuffs. All soldiers know that. It's mutual respect.
egyptians fucking cut off their right hands and dicks to count enemy casualties lol
>>738092
The word you're looking for is 'treason'
>>735997
Marines should be banned from owning cameras or internet connection.
WW1 Fighter pilots.
>n 31 August 1915, Pégoud was shot down and killed by one of his pre-war German students, Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski,[1] while intercepting a German reconnaissance aircraft. He was 26 years old. The same German crew later dropped a funeral wreath behind the French lines. A false report stated that two weeks later Kandulski was shot down by the French pilot Roger Ronserail. In fact Kandulski survived the war.[5]
>>738457
Oh God not that please
I know spanish and french soldiers would pray for the dead of the other side when they fought each other. Since they were both catholics.
It wasn't uncommon for Christians in the middle ages to name their children Saladin.
If that counts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camar%C3%B3n
Mexican commander says that he can't kill them after such a display of courage and grants them a wish instead.
>>738553
They thought he was a hidden Christian though. But that still counts, since it means they found him so honourable and just that they came up with the idea that he was one of their own in reality.
>>735820
Richard III had a chantry chapel built on the battlefield at Towton and set up a new tomb for the defeated Henry VI.
>>736013
Falklands showed honour on both sides. A type of war we won't see again
>>738582
in the Divine Comedy he goes to Limbo because he's a virtuous pagan. Christians thought he was a pretty cool guy, and it's pretty hard to blame them
>>738817
indeed, veterans from both sides have made friendships and returned personal items
>>736730
>tfw there are no such courtesies on the battlefield anymore
There was a British prison during WWII that was set up specifically for captured SS officers. Personnel could be fired for so much as raising their voices during the interrogations there. The prisoners were among the worst the Nazis had to offer and this was all while London was being bombed daily, if not hourly. The threat was palpable and unceasing, yet no one was ever struck, much less tortured. Western civilization stood on a knife's edge, and still we refused to become what we beheld.
We've come a long way to now torturing anyone under the vaguest suspicion of anything.
>>738817
Because it's an aberration. Two developed countries fought a low-intensity war about an issue that did not concern any other country.
>>736054
Ataturk really was a great leader, wasn't he?
>>738439
Treason against a morally repugnant cause is the right thing to do.
>>738130
>Samurai
>Posts picture of the people who were directly at odds with the real samurai
>>739178
Nukes, mang
They changed the game
>>739327
This. Hirohitos bullshido ain't my way of the warrior. He is a sellout and probably sucks white dick too.
