[chilepepper]

During the Falklands War, Gurkha commandos would slip
into the trenches where the Argentine soldiers were
sleeping, and silently slit the throats of about one in
ten of the enemy. An Argie would wake up and find
the guy next to them dead with his throat cut...

Talk about psychological warfare!

[jslade]

"There were many legends made by the enemies during the First and Second World Wars about the fierceness of Gurkha soldiers. However, the most recent one was reported in 1982 during the war of Britain with Argentina over the Falklands. According to the reporter of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "The Argentines dropped their rifles and abandoned mortars and machine guns" as soon as the Gurkha soldiers marched forward. The Argentine soldiers were mainly afraid of the famous Gurkha knives called "Khukuri" because they had chopped the heads off many Germans and Japanese in hand to hand combat during the world wars."

Source: http://rip.physics.unk.edu/Nepal/NPE.html