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War isn't just putting pieces of lead into the other side's soldiers.
There's many fronts to fight on.
Psychological, financial, espionage & counterintel, propaganda.
Here, we're looking at we consider barbaric by modern day standards, but has been a legitimate form of war for thousands of years.
Remember the mongols and their mountains of heads?
Chaka impaling his opposition and victims on stakes?
American pilots dragged through Somalian streets?
What it does is to dehumanise your enemy n the eyes of your soldiers and to generate fear in the enemy's hearts. If the enemy can be driven back or made to act indecisively by fear, then you have won a large part of the war. Although barbaric, it has it's uses.
and whoever said war was meant to be polite or honourable anyway? Your mission is to kill all those who oppose the placement of your strategic forces. That's not barbaric?
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