>Officers don't work! It says so in this slip of paper I'm carrying. If you disobey this directive I will be forced to write a full report on this!Would you go his lengths to be lazy?
>>220181062It's because commissioned officers came from the social elite. An officer's corps was an institution for sons of influential men. To be a commissioned officer, you not only had to hold a high rank in the military, but be literally appointed to an office (hence "officer"). The Japanese had adopted the European imperial tradition. So during WW2, their officers (also social elites) respected these customs. In general, elites have respected each other in war. Meanwhile, the common solder was sent to his death against his will to kill some other guy who doesn't really want to be there. They didn't get cushy posts for simply being born into the right social class. They suffered at the hands of their own officers as much as the enemy's. Imagine being a POW and having to die while slaving away in the heat while your officer chills indoors playing cards.
>>220181343Sharpey was risen from the ranks and he wasn't a bitch when he needed to lug powder or any other shit. Nicholson was being a kid throwing a tantrum.
>>220181343Even if this were true, its not the point. They had their command structure and the Nips agreed to respect it. If obiwan has given in, it would have turned his men into slaves rather than a captured military unit. Structure and institution are important and only women and do-nothings think rank is sufficient to maintain leadership of a group of fighting men.
>>220181515They already are slaves. That's the whole point of having an army, having slaves.You think the men individually can choose to return home? No, they get killed for it in the same manner.Saito was about to kill the officers, he could have gunned down the rest of the unit as well. All of this would have been reasonable since they were all unwilling to work (or fine, don't give them food, gotta "ration" shit or whatever). The guy wanted a random bridge that would have blown up anyway. All he had to do was getting rid of the troublemakers and get a new more collaborative unit of prisoners.And in fact, that's what happens in real life. You think you can stand to your boss and say "I WILL SUE YOU, SIR". If you're small fry, and only have the promise of a civilized world behind your back, you will be brushed to the side even if you went all the way to execute the lawsuit. All it takes is a more calm third party that will laugh at you for defending yourself with the name of justice alone, without any clear leverage.
>>220181694>brown coded
>>220181694>That's the whole point of having an army, having slaves.unserious reddit spacer rambling
>>220181062>if the bird doesn't sing, kill it.Holy shit, it makes sense now.
>>220183195Based Nobunaga. I can just imagine him laughing his ass off as all the Daimyos seethe at Yasuke's niggershines.
>>220181694>reddit-tier opinionOfficers took the brunt of torture and mistreatment on behalf of their men in PoW situations in literally every conflict I've ever looked into.
>>220181062When I was in the Navy, there was a sign on the mess deck that said “MILK IS FOR OFFICERS ONLY!”
>>220181343>>220181694The Bolsheviks tried to do away with officers and instead used popular vote to fill specialist and commanding positions. However they learned the hard way that this is a retarded idea as peasants will vote for unqualified people and led to them getting militarily humiliated. They ended up scrapping this idea and getting former tsarist officers to take up the roles of commander and specialists albeit under the watchful eyes of commissars. There is a very good reason why officers have been utilized by militaries since the classical era lmao.
>>220183849Did they make cum jokes about officers for this?>>220184231The problem was that it was a revolution and they wanted immediate results. If they had kept going, the riffraff would have gotten killed and only excellent natural officers would have been available for popular vote.
