Modern firearms and the collapse of heroism

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

-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.

So yeah dispersion is generally a good idea in modern warfare... it's really a huge change that goes unnoticed. 

I don't thinking fighting with your bare hands is easy, especially if you're not muscular, or if your opponent is simply much heavier and bigger. But once you have a gun, you can bring down anyone with minimal effort, that's what's so scary and evil about firearms, they're like a superpower that should have never become real.

Unless you're temperamentally suited and have had at least some training, taking down someone with a gun isn't as easy as you seem to think. Suffice it say that if someone doesn't want their teeth broken, they shouldn't go waving guns in my face.

Boru