The hotly debated issue of the “presidential salute” is once again making the rounds online, except this time it has broadened in scope to include the “vice presidential salute.” Kamala Harris does not salute the military when she arrives at or ...

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The 21-gun salute is one of the highest military honors, performed for dignitaries, heads of state and fallen service members. But what exactly is it? And why 21 shots? In military tradition, "guns" refer to artillery or cannons, not rifles. Some believe ...

This straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity. From airing his views on the fall of the Roman empire (demographic ...

What constitutes a “Nazi Salute” and where did it originate?The arm-up palm-down salute actually has an innocent American precursor and controversial history in the “Bellamy salute.” As a schoolboy in the early 1960s, I read many utopian and anti ...

Amid the growing threat of far-right extremism in Australia, Victoria recently became the first state to ban the Nazi swastika, (known as the Hakenkreuz). Publicly displaying the symbol is now a criminal offence and carries a penalty of up to $22,000 ...

The “Sieg Heil” heard ’round the world has made its way to Deutschland, where activists are using the now-infamous image at Tesla’s German Gigafactory to send a bold message. German activist group Zentrum fur Politische Schönheit, or Center for ...

The historic groundswell of support for survivors of the 14 February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed seventeen people has not come without seemingly endless attempts to minimize or smear the ...

In the military forces of the Russian Federation, a hand military salute is carried out with the palm facing down and only when the head is covered. What else is special about the Russian military salute and what is its history? Essentially, a military ...

Tickets are now available for the Salute 53 being held at the London ExCel on Saturday, 11th April 2026. Are you going to be coming along and getting stuck into all of the wargaming goodness of the day?