WI: War pigeons during Boshin/First Sino-Japanese War

Just thought it was an interesting concept.
What if wars that involved modern military equipment in Asia decided to employ pigeons for communication in times of desperate measures? Would it be feasible? Would it be seen as "farcical copying from the West"? Or could it be enough to change the turn of the wars?
 
Remember that homing pigeons go home, hence the name.

Pigeons let you send messages from the front to a logistics base (the city the army is operating from, say), but they don't allow for messages TO the front, and especially not between fronts.

So, no, I don't see the use of pigeons much in ANY war, let alone in the East where they're not a big thing already.
 
Remember that homing pigeons go home, hence the name.

Pigeons let you send messages from the front to a logistics base (the city the army is operating from, say), but they don't allow for messages TO the front, and especially not between fronts.

So, no, I don't see the use of pigeons much in ANY war, let alone in the East where they're not a big thing already.

They were used a bit in the First World War, as I recall, although that was kind of a special case in that the front lines didn't move much for almost four years.

ETA: Plus, during the Crusades, castles under siege (who couldn't be sure of getting human messengers through the enemy lines) would use homing pigeons to send messages asking for help and the like.
 
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