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Isn't it the case that only 1 in X soldiers actually fires their weapon ? I think vaguely remember something to that effect.
by jrimbault 4y ago
Isn't it the case that only 1 in X soldiers actually fires their weapon ? I think vaguely remember something to that effect.
- RealityVoid 4y agoIf you refer to the WW1 claim floating around, then it is most likely false. If you are talking about the fact modern military has many nore support ropes than combat roles, then... yeah, but that tells nothing about the willingness to fire a gun.
- hnaccount_rng 4y agoYeah about 8:1 in 2005 for the US https://acoup.blog/2022/04/22/fireside-friday-april-22-2022/ https://acoup.blog/2022/04/22/fireside-friday-april-22-2022/
- pmoriarty 4y agoThere's a book on this called On Killing by David Grossman.[1] "In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. In Korea, about 50 percent. In Vietnam, the figure rose to more than 90 percent." [1] - https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316040932 https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-S...
- heavenlyblue 4y agoI wonder what they start doing after enduring a single artillery barrage in a city. That must be horribly traumatising to see. I recently came back home from travels and realised that our neighbour’s car burned down(I live in London), and it just struck me how horrible it looks like. That’s after seeing many videos of total destruction in Ukraine. It just never popped into my mind how unusual it is to see something like that. That wasn’t even people dying, just practical realisation how not far we are from total civilisation collapse, if the majority of citizens wanted that.