u/Creepyfaction

Given distance from Northern supply chains and their own way of fighting, did the Viet Cong ever attempt to produce their own weapons in the South? I recall reading that most US casualties during the war were attributed to bobby traps or IEDs.

For a country claiming the Soviet legacy of defeating the Nazis, it seems that there is a significant Neo-Nazi subculture within the Russian Military spawning groups like Wagner and Afrika Corp who are more overt about it. So how did this happen and how extensive is it? Within the Russian Military itself, how does it view Nazi sympathies versus Soviet or Tsarist ones? Are certain parts of the military like special forces for example are more likely to be Nazi fans than others?

With the War in Ukraine, NATO members turned to not just their own stockpile of reserved armor and artillery, but also to private businesses that scooped up the excess inventory divested by NATO members after the Cold War seeking to resell them for profit. Whereas Russia has "Deep Storage" to draw hardware from, what can be said about NATO? Just how much hardware is there left for NATO to draw from outside of state arsenals?

In the aftermath of the world wars, the losers had to cede their warships to the winners. And in WW2, the capture of the Vichy French fleet by the Nazis was enough for the British to sink them. But in practice, are captured warships relevant at all to navies? Compared to their own ships coming from domestic supply chains, how are captured ships put into service and supported? For the Germans for example, what exactly would they have done if they manage to seize the French Fleet?