Is there a future for horses in a military capacity?
Also post pics of cavalry. Napoleonic, winged Hussars, WW1, whatever.
Cavalry thread
Noah Mitchell
Hunter Cooper
Poles, Poos, Krauts and Aussies
Carson Fisher
Mongolia still uses them for border patrol. In general though, the machine gun has killed the cavalry/dragoon.
Caleb Peterson
That was the answer I feared. Still, they had a pretty good run.
Brandon Williams
Apart from parades, no.
Cavalry is still pretty cool.
Parker Cooper
Cavalry is my favourite aesthetic. My Granddad was Kings troop and taught me all about horses.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Scouting in forests
Zachary Harris
Is this an area where horses could simply never be surpassed?
Aaron Ross
Potentially there's a use for mounted men in low(ish) risk, long distance, low intensity work. Things like border patrols or non-theatre airbase defence. Basically any area where a soldier has to cover a lot of ground, at relatively low speed, with limited risk of being shot at. If you love the visual of regiments of horse charging across the battlefield then good on you, that's completely understandable. However that died with WW1, and it had been on the way out for a while by then.
Hunter Roberts
Guess I'll have to give up on my dream of cyborg cataphracts.