Did soldiers ever show frustration before toward newer tech like they do with drones?
>>64409774No, WW1 infantry loved being told to charge machineguns.
>>6440977440k soliders that were stationed in Hiroshima loved he warmth 1/2 of the casualties.
>>64409774I've been in that conversation with drone pilots. >drones are gayWe came to the conclusion that it probably started with bows and arrows. Then generation by generation someone would come up with a gayer way of killing than the last guy. Can we just go back on nuking everything? That was sold for my grandparents as the peak way of killing, but being pussies regressed us into the modern 'made-in-china' way of doing warfare.
>>64409774Lol yes.>I must observe," says Montluc, " that the troops which I commanded consisted of crossbow men only ; since at that time there were in our nation no soldiers armed with guns. Only three or four days before, six Gascon arquebusiers, deserters, came over from the enemy's camp to our army, and these men I kept with me, as I had the good fortune on that day to be on duty at the gate of the town. One of these men was from the Montluc estates. I wonder, however, that it could have been the will of Providence that this unlucky instrument should have been invented, I myself still bear about me the marks that it has left, which even now cause me to suffer much weakness ; and have seen brave and valiant men killed with it in such sad numbers, and it generally happened that they were struck down to the ground by those abominable bullets, which had been discharged by cowardly and base knaves, who would never have dared to have met true soldiers face to face and hand to hand. All this is very clearly one of those artifices which the devil employs to induce us human beings to kill one another."> In the reign of Queen Elizabeth Sir John Smith, a general of much experience, stated that the bow was the superior of the hand-gun, and although he was taken up sharply by Mr. W. Barwick, Gent, he stuck to his contention. " I will never doubt to adventure my life," he writes, " or many lives (if I had them), amongst 8,000 archers, complete, well chosen and appointed, and therewithal provided and furnished with great store of sheaves of arrows, as also a good overplus of bows and bow-strings, against 20,000 of the best harquebusiers and musketeers there are in Christendom."
>>64409863>We came to the conclusion that it probably started with bows and arrows.Nah started when some dude picked up a rock and threw it in the face of some big hunk showing off.
>>64409941This or the first pre-human to be hit by a stick.
>>64409774of course, don't you know that song Black Betty?
>>64409774Early guns were a massive psychological change, despite early plate armor being proof against them, because until then a soldier's personal weapons skill boosted their defense as well as their offense; so you could have a "dumb" or impulsive champion like Achilles who was still valuable and hard to kill despite being irresponsible at the tactical level.The loss of the defense-stat and transition to your tactics being what define your chances, along with the enemy's incompetence, was a big deal. I think it's a psychological assumption which has echoed down the centuries to this very day. Modern soldiers take for granted that they're fragile beings doing their best, and it's how they define courage, but in the pre-gunpowder era war was more like a video game (as long as you didn't die of dysentery) with plot armor for highly skilled people.Source: 14th century Italian condottieri
>>64409774Every single time there has been technological innovation in warfare, soldiers have bitched about it. The first time some Neolithic cave man figured out that a sling can toss a rock better than the bare hand, Grug called him a Pusey that had ruined the sacred art of beating a dude to death.
>>64409792But those were normies Who got drafted, not ideologues or shizo mercenaries
>>64410483that's what makes countries with professional armies dangerousthe UN should ban professional armies and force all countries to have conscription or no army
