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[Rowland Smith <rowland AT nc.rr.com>]

All this talk of killing is really making me hungry - anyone up for a 
monster steak this weekend?

Rowland


Alan MacHett wrote:

> 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
>
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