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Originally Posted by Livia

And as for not needing battlefield experience to understand that order must be maintained... Well, battlefield experience will teach you that soldiers are human beings with human reactions and emotions. Putting on a uniform and doing basic training doesn't make you into a robot.

I genuinely don't understand your position at all... no, they are not robots, people snap but it can't simply be brushed under the carpet without consequence without essentially abandoning discipline and order, allowing soldiers to do whatever the **** they want in a war zone, and going down a path which will definitely result in those very same soldiers being at increased risk... because they're surrounded by loose cannons who are not following the rules or their orders.

How is any of this in any way positive?

Modern militaries are highly structured, highly organised, and have a very clear chain of command. For a REASON. Because it is effective, efficient, and helps to keep people, both civilians and soldiers, safer.

But yeah why not. Let's just arm them to the teeth and let them go at it like Rambo, because they're only human after all, and because terrorism. It'll be fine.