I hear it is actually preferential to cripple soldiers rather than outright kill them in attritional warfare. A dead soldier is a martyr. A cripple is a terrifying look at your future + an expense.
This won’t be an attritional war in terms of bodies tho. A land invasion of US troops is unlikely. Killing those troops instead instills fear in troops and makes the US public recoil.
Naw, this is one of those often repeated ideas based on someone’s guess being spread as a factual. Wounded troops don’t actually cause more problems for a military than dead ones. Wounded can either return to combat after healing or return home to train other troops/work in factories/whatever. Dead troops means all the training that went into a person is now gone.
There’s also the logistics of dealing with dead bodies, something much more resource intensive than people who are only wounded. Serious blow to morale if bodies aren’t returned for funerals, nor can you leave them piled around because of disease.
I’m learning a lot from this war (including this summer) but I wasn’t expecting to have to reconsider stuff like this and my friend going off about how shooting people in the leg is dumb (you have no way of knowing if they are disabled or can still get a sight picture, etc).
Could this be why Trump cancelled his speech? The establishment knew the reporters would ask for a comment on this and its best to avoid the “we’ve had casualties” talk
One word: powerful.
200 good fascists inshallah
I hear it is actually preferential to cripple soldiers rather than outright kill them in attritional warfare. A dead soldier is a martyr. A cripple is a terrifying look at your future + an expense.
This won’t be an attritional war in terms of bodies tho. A land invasion of US troops is unlikely. Killing those troops instead instills fear in troops and makes the US public recoil.
I much prefer them dead thank you.
Naw, this is one of those often repeated ideas based on someone’s guess being spread as a factual. Wounded troops don’t actually cause more problems for a military than dead ones. Wounded can either return to combat after healing or return home to train other troops/work in factories/whatever. Dead troops means all the training that went into a person is now gone.
There’s also the logistics of dealing with dead bodies, something much more resource intensive than people who are only wounded. Serious blow to morale if bodies aren’t returned for funerals, nor can you leave them piled around because of disease.
Wounded is different from crippled. But it is completely just a guess, that bit is right.
I’m learning a lot from this war (including this summer) but I wasn’t expecting to have to reconsider stuff like this and my friend going off about how shooting people in the leg is dumb (you have no way of knowing if they are disabled or can still get a sight picture, etc).
Could this be why Trump cancelled his speech? The establishment knew the reporters would ask for a comment on this and its best to avoid the “we’ve had casualties” talk
Any troops in the area with any sense should defect.
I hope so but both sides engage in propaganda. The US probably would never confirm it even if true.
Bus accident in Poland leaves hundreds of US soldiers dead.
that would be great