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["Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>]

James Dasher said:
> Leaving enemy soldiers critically wounded still gives the enemy
> latitude to make some last effort that could harm you or your soldiers
> - pulling a trigger, throwing a grenade, activating a bomb, or even
> speed-dialing on the cell phone to warn others.  When that happens,
> your soldiers die.  The best way to avert such a catastrophe is to
> kill, not wound, an enemy.
>

just a short comment on this last point:

Standard military theory promotes injuring the enemy.  It's even part of
US Army Ranger doctrine.  Injured soldiers slow the enemy.  Every assault
soldier (the ones actively engaged in warfare -- infantry, artillery,
etc.) requires approximately 10 support personnel; injured soldiers only
exascerbate those figures.  Injured soldiers have to be carried and cared
for by their comrades.  Injured soldiers also tend to scream in pain,
which has a nice psychological effect on the enemy.  Better to nearly kill
them than to kill them.

--Alan