Re: Experience and Training

--- Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@juno.com> wrote:

> Kinda depends on how you define "civilized" isn't
> it?  1943 Japan?
> 1951Chinese? 

No and no.

> American militia during the Plains Wars?  

Undisciplined.	And that's one instance.

> Roman Legion?

Depends on how chopped up your wounded are--frequently
they would just sell them into slavery.  And at that
time, chopping anyone with an infection or a gut wound
was an act of mercy. Besides which that was before
conventions.

> 1942-1943 Russian Partisans?	

No.

> SS?  

Why don't you ask a Jew?

> All nations have had aberrant (by
> modern western standards) practices during war.

Really?  The only time I recall Regular US or UK
troops shooting prisioners and wounded as a policy is
against certain SS units.  You deliberately picked
some of the worst scum on this polanet.  Oh, and
undisciplined militia with political appointees for
officers.  There are breakdowns of discipline in any
military--but some do make a serious effort to follow
the rules.  And a very few actually try their own
screwups.

> Medics are (even under the Geneva Conventions (aka
> rules for wars without reality in some circles) 

Obviously not among people who might have to observe
them on occasion.

> IIRC) allowed 'self defense' weapons in modern
> conflicts.

Sure.  Which is usually interpreted to be a 9mm
pistol.

John

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