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Originally Posted by lightfighter
Ok, this board is rife with people who know "almost too much" about all sorts of stuff... so who can make the connectio between this image and "Boxer"? Not too hard, really....
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U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Regiment
Coalition operations involving nations whose equipment, culture, military skills, and language differ from our own are nothing new to the United States Army. Whether operating under the aegis of the United Nations as during the Korean War, alongside like-minded allies in the Gulf War in 1991, serving as peacekeepers in the Balkans, or leading the way in the global war on terror, our Army has amassed considerable knowledge on what works and what does not. During the Boxer rebellion at the beginning of the last century, American Soldiers fought alongside troops of Great Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, Russia, and Japan to restore stability and rescue embattled foreign nationals in China. This was our first coalition war with foreign troops, fighting on foreign soil that was home to a common adversary that vastly outnumbered them. Adding to the difficulties of the operation were the animosities between the coalition partners themselves; the Russians and Japanese refused to serve either under one another or even adjacent to one another, and within five years of this operation they were themselves at war.