In the history of mankind, has there ever been a military which respected it's subordinates and trained under a fair and intuitive regime?
It seems all military training is designed to de-humanize.
In the history of mankind...
Carson Powell
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Jack Morales
You are better off asking on /his/
Isaiah Carter
Ok, I'll give it a try over there and compare with them vs us over here.
Charles Morales
Most modern western militaries, the boot camp meme is a few short weeks compared to an entire career in the military. Over conformity causes lack of flexibility and ingenuity
Christopher Richardson
>Over conformity causes lack of flexibility and ingenuity
Uhm.
Romans were pretty ingenious, but they just never understood the importance of heavy Calvary for some reason...then they kept allowing foreign auxiliries to do all the fighting and got rid of their core Roman infantry over time (also a bad move).
Sad.
Ian Thompson
From my understanding special forces are trained very differently than the typical grunt soldier. They are usually planning their operations themselves as a team, not in top down fashion. This makes them own the solution for the mission, it makes them engaged on a personal level, it makes them more motivated and it makes every soldier fully understand their role in the mission. This only works on smaller competent teams, not on huge low IQ armies. I dont know if this is what you mean.
Samuel Reyes
i hope a fucking leaf is not mistaking discipline as disrespect
that would be pretty embarrassing
Noah Gutierrez
>most modern armies
>the Romans
What are you even talking about.
Read Mao- "on guerrilla warfare" even he understood compulsion is the least effective way to run an army. See German "war of movement" and it's initiative, task driven order structure. Decentralized operations are the crux of all modern militaries.
Cameron White
They did appreciate Cavalry. The thing is the military is a reflection of the society(here comes the Jow Forums part). Rome was a Republic (mostly at the early part, that represented the citizen more than say a monarchy. So service at time of war was a duty the citizen was proud of. So that was the part that got emphasized. The rich kids showed up also with their horses, but the yeoman farmer putting in his time was a foot solder.
Aiden Stewart
No, the reason being is the vast majority of soldiers are pawns which you must be willing to sacrifice and who must willingly sacrifice themselves. It is that simple. Another thing which may be relevant to your "dehumanization" observation is that most people, even in war, do not actively try to kill. They tend to shoot in the direction of people, rather than aiming to hit. On a psychological level most people do not want to kill other people. Military training tries to psychologically condition people to want to hit their target, to try to kill people.