RE: Modern firearms and the collapse of heroism
July 10, 2023 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2023 at 3:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
-and yet modern casualty rates are low.
Agree about them being terrifying, and that's why you disperse. Beyond some point, more people in an area don't help you to achieve your objective in any way, and in fact it begins to degrade your capabilities...not just because you've given the other guy more targets to shoot at in a denser field where it's harder to miss...but for all of the backend stuff it takes to even bring more men up..and all that you lose, if you do so, anywhere else those men might have been placed instead.
Fighting with your bare hands is the easiest thing in the world. No one in their right mind would want to do it - soldiers tend to carry weapons - and the most lethal weapons they can find. You've watched too many movies..I suspect, where a war is a series of 1v1 duels between oiled up hotbodies. Ballerinas on wire twirling around like christmas tree decorations. That's never been how this worked. It was peasants who were full time farmers stabbing each other to death with sticks in every age. My buddies could have cleared those spartans out of that pass in about 60 seconds.
Agree about them being terrifying, and that's why you disperse. Beyond some point, more people in an area don't help you to achieve your objective in any way, and in fact it begins to degrade your capabilities...not just because you've given the other guy more targets to shoot at in a denser field where it's harder to miss...but for all of the backend stuff it takes to even bring more men up..and all that you lose, if you do so, anywhere else those men might have been placed instead.
Fighting with your bare hands is the easiest thing in the world. No one in their right mind would want to do it - soldiers tend to carry weapons - and the most lethal weapons they can find. You've watched too many movies..I suspect, where a war is a series of 1v1 duels between oiled up hotbodies. Ballerinas on wire twirling around like christmas tree decorations. That's never been how this worked. It was peasants who were full time farmers stabbing each other to death with sticks in every age. My buddies could have cleared those spartans out of that pass in about 60 seconds.
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