How widespread and effective were dogs used in warfare? Were

>>2237919
>How widespread and effective were dogs used in warfare?

Almost every pre-gunpowder society used them in a very limited extent. Dogs were used primarily to help reconnaissance forces, not to send them trying to bite enemies to death.

If dogs were bred for size and power would we ever have been treated to scenes of dogs biting off horse heads?

Romans used Rottweilers to cart meat to soldiers.

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>>2237919
How widespread and effective were bears used in warfare?

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>you will never be soldier with military dog friend who comes home with you and lives with you on farm after the war

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>Some documented examples of damnatio ad bestias in Ancient Rome include the following: Strabo witnessed[16] the execution of the rebel slaves' leader Selur.[12] The bandit Laureolus was crucified and then devoured by an eagle and a bear, as described by the poet Martial in his Book of Spectacles.[17][18] Such executions were also documented by Seneca the Younger (On anger, III 3), Apuleius (The Golden Ass, IV, 13), Titus Lucretius Carus (On the Nature of things) and Petronius Arbiter (Satyricon, XLV). Cicero was indignant that a man was thrown to the beasts to amuse the crowd just because he was considered ugly.[19][20] Suetonius wrote that when the price of meat was too high, Caligula ordered prisoners, with no discrimination as to their crimes, to be fed to circus animals.[21] Pompey used damnatio ad bestias for showcasing battles and, during his second consulate (55 BC), staged a fight between heavily armed gladiators and 18 elephants.[6][22][23]

War doggos :3 so cute and surrounded and bloodshed d'awww

>>2238240
Yeah you could. Nothings dropping you from being a farmer, dogs are still used in war, and there are still wars to fight.

>>2238332
nothings stopping you*

>you will never train a doggo run towards a tank with a satchel charge on his back as a suicide attack

sleep well pupper, all doggos go to heaven ; ;

>>2237919
From my understanding they were mainly used for tracking, recon, and pack mule roles.

I believe there was a Soviet attempt during WW2 to strap bombs on doggos to have them run under german tanks. It was short-lived because the dogs would run under the Soviet tanks as well.

>>2238342
Zhukov wanted to use Russian conscripts