Is the bravery of soldiers overrated?

[disillusioned]

If you look at real world war statistics with few exceptions wars don't kill anywhere near as many people as we are told. In ancient times war was more like a giant pushing contest and battles would have like 5% fatality rate or some shit. In modern times it's higher but not as much as you would think.

Also consider the cowardly way most soldiers will fight in modern wars. Waiting in a fox hole or trench while carefully trying to blow up the other side with a drone or something. I also read somewhere that once casualties within a unit reaches 10-15% battle effectiveness decreases by as much as 80-90% because of devastated morale. Tbh I think soldier's bravery is massively overrated.

 

[Lightbulb]

World War soldiers were definitely high T and brave af.

 

[Alt Number 3]

idk but protecting a country that will shit on u later is cucked

 

[Deleted member 3043]

Imagine beeing a cuck

 

[disillusioned]

World War soldiers were definitely high T and brave af.

Wasn't casualty rate among WW2 USA soldiers only something like 8-10%?

 

[Deleted member 1774]

i missed you squidbro

 

[Nosecel]

 

[Lightbulb]

Wasn't casualty rate among WW2 USA soldiers only something like 8-10%?

8-10% out of what?

 

[KingOfRome]

Soldiers, themselves, will tell you it is. The old "the real heroes are the ones who died" cliché has truth to it. For the most part, the ones who insist soldiers are these comic book superheroes who need to be showered in ribbons and accolades for sneezing in a foreign country are virtue-signaling civilians.

t. Raised in a military family and unfit for service due to severe mental illness...

 

[Deleted member 3073]

Being a soldier was based in the ancient times and when wars were fought on land (basically until the Gulf wars)

Now it's all button boom boom missile launch kaboom 50k shitskins dead durka durka mohammad muhammed

And the few deployed ones that end up shooting a gun typically kill some random civilian kids