That is almost entirely the truth, but the military is voluntary and temporary, you are paid for your time, provided free lodging, food, training, access to all kinds of resources for little or no cost, there are tremendous benefits for service, and even larger risks. That is why the US military is all volunteer.
Also it's because conscripts are inferior to volunteers, especially when it comes to the level of money invested in each soldier
Volunteers want to be there, conscripts don't
Volunteers can be entrusted with a lot more responsibilities, autonomy and equipment, meaning they can respond faster, more intelligently and employ the best equipment and training - volunteer officers tend to act as a much higher rank than equivalent ranking officers in conscript armies, simply because conscripts cannot be trusted not to rebel
You are basically taught that if your target is holding up a pregnant woman as a shield... You should shoot through her to kill him.
If he is in a crowd of people... you need to go full auto! in fact bomb the place
And DANG IT I WISH I was joking -_-
There are also people, in the government, who want to shut down restitution officers (not their correct name): basically shut down the people whose job it is... to give someone money because the military killed their husband, wife, child or grievously injured them.
So yeah my opinion of the military is not extremely high. There is a serious double standard...
Lmao Neo someone's been pulling your leg :
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This is not like training at all, at least not for Western militaries, you do not earn the loyalty of volunteer soldiers by telling them to shoot everything that moves. Moreover, you do not earn the loyalty in peacekeeping operations of the people you're protecting if you regularly disregard their wellbeing by shooting everything that moves - so much care is made to avoid angering the locals that even respect for dead enemy bodies is considered. Can't imagine it would go down too well with the chaplaincy either if soldiers were complaining that their COs were telling them to kill everyone
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Closest thing I can think of that is taught about morals and signing off people to die, is in regards to your own people - do you risk endangering the rest of your men for the possibility of saving another one's life. Abstract stuff like you're caught in a storm and you lost track of one of your injured, do you backtrack to try and find them or do you get the rest of your men to safety - better to opt for the latter as your chances of finding the lost soldier are slim and you can risk losing more, to the more realistic examples like your ship having been struck with a missile - to ensure integrity of the ship and to guarantee the lives of everyone above, you may have to condemn the lives of those below.
Bombing crowds of people would pretty much guarantee a war crime investigation and risk terminating the whole campaign, since democracies must keep in account the public opinion of their constituents when committing to war efforts
Pretty simple on accounts of both morality and practicality, you don't want to stress out your soldiers too much to the point where they just get absolutely fatigued (see drone operators)
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