IMPORTANT NOTE: You do NOT have to register to read, post, listen or contribute. If you simply wish to remain fully anonymous, you can still contribute.
Topic History of: more soldiers commit suicide than die in action Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
Author
Message
Ben 9
In The Know wrote: anyone who abdicates responsibility for their own lives and lets others order them about has serious problems
Would you include John Churchill, James Wolfe, Arthur Wellesley, Bernard Mongomery, Bill Slim and John Pennington?
Pattaya
In The Know wrote: ... according to Panorama.
Does not surprise me ... anyone who abdicates responsibility for their own lives and lets others order them about has serious problems.
Seems the thought of dying for Jonathan King and country was too much
Sgt Major Hedda
and so it has always been in all armies and after all wars but they used to call it shell shock.
I would never join an army after reading the US report they commissioned after WW2 and discovered that 6-10% of armies are made up of psychopaths who enjoy being able to legally kill with no consequences- including their own comrades if desired (friendly fire ?)
if conscripted I'd go underground or perhaps demand to be in the Catering Corp. perhaps I could invoke Royal Privilege
In The Know
... according to Panorama.
Does not surprise me ... anyone who abdicates responsibility for their own lives and lets others order them about has serious problems.