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re: What would be the worst war to fight in in history?
Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:18 pm to BuckyCheese
Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:18 pm to BuckyCheese
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All of those sound more palatable than that medieval shite.
I mean I'd rather get shot than end up on a pike.
I don't think most people can process what it would be like to fight in a jungle in Vietnam in the 1960's.
Thinking they could relate to a bunch of dirty, starving, toothless peasants hacking each other to pieces in the mud with swords and axes with no medical support or wagons to haul them off is just way beyond the reasoning of nearly anyone.
Any battlefield is terrible, but we value human life in a much more advanced way than civilization did in previous centuries and our methods of warfare reflect that. Life was much harder in every facet back then and its easy to forget how far we've come.
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Posted on 1/18/20 at 10:25 pm to tide06
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we value human life in a much more advanced way than civilization did in previous centuries and our methods of warfare reflect that
I don’t know. Our methods of warfare have made killing more efficient. If getting shot or blown up is more humane than being stabbed or slashed, it’s not for any altruistic purpose.
Pre gunpowder battles could be brutal but I don’t think they were generally as bad as WWI. The battles were smaller scale and with proper armor the chances of surviving were pretty good. Of course some battles like Cannae were complete bloodbaths but I don’t know how to compare being slaughtered in Cannae versus charging a machine gun at Somme.
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