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I'm not assuming anything, explicitly or implicitly. People like to pretend you can turn agression on and off and only turn it towards the "right" direction. Th

• BobaFloutist 2y ago
  Does that mean you're not expected to turn aggression off towards commanding officers? If you can't direct it or turn it off, are generals constantly getting yelled at and punched by enlisted soldiers? Or does the inability of soldiers to control themselves mysteriously only apply to subordinates, women, and civilians?
  • itohihiyt 2y ago
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• pdonis 2y ago
  > 12 years in military multiple tours of various warzones. How recently? I'm guessing, recently enough that the military you served in is the dysfunctional military described in the article, which suffers from a severe lack of leadership. People whose service was further in the past can tell you a very different story.
  • itohihiyt 2y ago
    I'm not recent no, been out over nearly 2 decades. I also don't look back with rose tinted glasses. I can agree with basically everything you've said, bar the assumption that the military is only recently dysfunctional. A brief look at any period of history will mostly show you a severe lack of proper leadership with very few exceptions. I'm aware my experience isn't everyone's. Unpopular as the reality might be, when you train people to be killers, in the lowest ranks many of whom are there instead of in gangs or jail, because there's no other options for them, don't be shocked that within that subset of the population you finding high rates of various crimes, especially violent ones.