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Here is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_military https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi

Here is a good historical reference from a western viewpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_military https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_children_in_the_m... I am less familiar with other regions of the world but understand it to be common place in some of them to this day.

flashback2199 3y ago
The repeated use of the phrase that children were "used by all sides" is concerning because there were many countries that used no children except those that got in by pretending to be older.