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Which precedent? Grunts under coercion has a rich history that's still ongoing, but these sort of guards are those that would have both weapons and the guarded
by somenameforme 2mo ago
Which precedent?
Grunts under coercion has a rich history that's still ongoing, but these sort of guards are those that would have both weapons and the guarded in their direct vicinity. I can't think of any historic example where this wasn't the loyalest of the loyal types.
- jcranmer 2mo agoThere are plenty of people who have been killed by their own bodyguards, e.g., Indira Gandhi.
- somenameforme 2mo agoYes, but in those cases - the assassinated generally trusted those who were assassinating them. If you're holding somebody's family hostage or otherwise coercing them, there's no trust and you're gonna get killed. Grunts are regularly mistreated and coerced. You can kidnap people off the streets, throw them in a trench and make sure they don't run away by the presence of "motivational troops" in the rear (who kill their own side for fleeing) but you don't let those sort of troops anywhere remotely near the people responsible for their predicament for very obvious reasons, let alone when armed.