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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
While modern war is terrifying and awesome in its preciseness and abilty to kill enmass very quickly.
Ancient war took on a whole other level of barbarianism, cruelty and outright suffering.
This man did not die easily.
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Warfare certainly seemed a more personal, looking the other guy right in the eye kind of thing. Everyone was involved and the outcome of a battle was probably a life and death thing for the King/Queen/General too.
In WWII, I think, only 25% of soldiers in the USA Army actually fired a shot.
Cowperson