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Originally Posted by willravel
If they were people? Shit yes. I understand the burden of command and if I were a military commander in a real war, I'd understand having to send people to die, but Iraq is a slaughter without meaning.
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How exactly did you learn / experience the burden of command?
*points to C&C: Red Alert CD*
I've been in charge of XX men and X million dollars of equipment in a "mildly unfriendly" zone and the really scary thing that I learned from it was that the more you have to manage in an increasingly dangerous environment... the easier it is to assign numbers and strip away faces. It becomes resource management. My team members became their attributes and I ranked them in my head based on how physically useful they were instead of our friendships / their families / human crap.
NCO perspective: These guys are my ants and I keep them alive because our team is a cohesive unit that benefits from the effort of all members.
Officer perspective: The Army is an ant farm and nobody in charge of the ant farm looses much sleep over the loss of a few ants as long as other 99% of the colony survives.