Rhodesia, a thread: I had a teacher at school who fought in Rhodesia. He still limped from the shrapnel in his leg. He told us war stories. He told us how they tied prisoners to the front of jeeps and drove towards suspected minefields. Human mine detectors.
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Don't lionise archaic wars either then. They were very much the same. I generally get annoyed at the idea that modern war is somehow worse because... Machines.
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Reading first hand accounts of medieval war, or Roman wars in Gaul and Iberia... Sounds awfully similar to your teachers account.
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