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Your instructor was so close as makes no odds to stating the only workable doctrine for a nation involved in a guerrilla war. Kill a man's brother, and he'll sp
by aaronem 13y ago
Your instructor was so close as makes no odds to stating the only workable doctrine for a nation involved in a guerrilla war. Kill a man's brother, and he'll spend every breath from then until his last looking to kill you back; show him convincingly that his cause is hopeless, and you open the way to, if not friendship, then at least the possibility of coexistence without either side feeling it needs to engage in sporadic attempts at murder.
- stcredzero 13y agoFunny you should say that. We used to think of him as jolly but affably mushy in the head. In retrospect, he was pretty wise, but he made no attempt to come across as being especially smart. I later related what he said to a retired Marine, who responded to the effect, that must've been an Army story -- his family had been joining the Marines for 3 generations to kill.
- omegant 13y agoI recommend reading "on killing", a book about effects that killing has in soldiers and how it has evolved since WW2. The modern warrior-killer mindset and training is responsible for a great part of the PTSD.