> One probable universal about the universal warrior; the real challenge isn't the battlefield, it's home afterwards. Speaking as an outsider, what’s interesti

> One probable universal about the universal warrior; the real challenge isn't the battlefield, it's home afterwards. Speaking as an outsider, what’s interesting to me is that this seems inevitably true, but at the same time afaik we don’t really see it in the historical record. So, why? Why don’t we seem to have vocabulary for this from before WWI? That opens up a whole can of worms about what kinds of sources we have, their POV, contexts, etc. But even if you can go digging around for subtext, you’d think you’d find something explicit somewhere. I certainly don’t have an answer.