Naw, this is one of those often repeated ideas based on someone’s guess being spread as a factual. Wounded troops don’t actually cause more problems for a military than dead ones. Wounded can either return to combat after healing or return home to train other troops/work in factories/whatever. Dead troops means all the training that went into a person is now gone.
There’s also the logistics of dealing with dead bodies, something much more resource intensive than people who are only wounded. Serious blow to morale if bodies aren’t returned for funerals, nor can you leave them piled around because of disease.
I’m learning a lot from this war (including this summer) but I wasn’t expecting to have to reconsider stuff like this and my friend going off about how shooting people in the leg is dumb (you have no way of knowing if they are disabled or can still get a sight picture, etc).
Naw, this is one of those often repeated ideas based on someone’s guess being spread as a factual. Wounded troops don’t actually cause more problems for a military than dead ones. Wounded can either return to combat after healing or return home to train other troops/work in factories/whatever. Dead troops means all the training that went into a person is now gone.
There’s also the logistics of dealing with dead bodies, something much more resource intensive than people who are only wounded. Serious blow to morale if bodies aren’t returned for funerals, nor can you leave them piled around because of disease.
Wounded is different from crippled. But it is completely just a guess, that bit is right.
I’m learning a lot from this war (including this summer) but I wasn’t expecting to have to reconsider stuff like this and my friend going off about how shooting people in the leg is dumb (you have no way of knowing if they are disabled or can still get a sight picture, etc).