"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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Dunno how soldiers can manage to kill humans and cope with it - poor sods.
Apparently in WWI, there were few casualties for the number of bullets
used but modern weaponry is much more "efficient and effective".

ww2 was the same. what happened was firstly that countries (e.g. the u.s.)
decided to train specifically for close combat - otherwise, as they had
seen, people simply weren't very good at killing other people at close range
unless they have a personal gripe (which they generally didn't). people
aren't very murderous at all as it transpires, so without specific training
to do so, most of them just can't do it. by the korean war, soldiers were
trained to be close-combat killers & kill-rates were much higher. i doubt
that was an advance in the scheme of things, but there you are.

secondly, "modern weaponry" does not require much level of personal
involvement to kill someone. the killer is placed aside from those s/he is
supposed to kill & can do so from a distance.

sigh.
kylie