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Originally posted by Yef:

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Originally posted by solops:
And in every other war in history. Today, we hear about it and, occasionally, try to correct it.

You can't correct anything after it happens. You can try to prevent this kind of incidents, but honest mistakes are happening all the time.
You can modify and strictly enforce the ROE, punish infractors, Psy evaluate your servicemen periodically, but in the end sh@t happens, and there is nothing you can do about it. When the bullets start flying all the thinking stops, the training kicks in, and soldiers will shoot by reflexes anything that is threatening.

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heh, yeah. like when we bombed that chinese embasy from three directions at once, all at the same time. that wasnt just combat stress, that was a colossal screw-up. oh sure, id like to think that it was a calculated stab at the chinese because we were having diplomatic problems with them at the time - but the truth is that people are too stupid and uncoordinated to have any real conspiracies.

thats right, there are no conspiracies or secret power elite - conspiracy theories are just shallow attempts at explaining why people do colossaly stupid things.

but regarding private armies, there has to be some way of setting it up so that its profitable for the mercenary company, profitable for the soldier, and not a giant waste of money for the government. im all for private armies, i just dont think that the military should be flushing away one million per soldier that does not re-enlist. maybe if the mercenary company paid for the training.