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British deserters pardoned alomst 100 years after the fact.http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1219478.ece
That's pretty brutal – they were shot for supposed “cowardice”. This during an age when soldiers would perhaps be sent in waves against an enemy's bullets. We should be thankful that militaries have changed their tactics since.
Easier in the sense that you're more likely to survive? Yes, I'd say so, and this is true for any number of reasons (diplomacy, military strategies, etc).
Well that and you know that you have a better chance for survival. Maybe I mean it this way. Do you need more courage to fight the way they did then, or as they did during the civil war, then now?
I think you have to have the same kind of courage now as you did then, as you know you could be killed at any moment. However, back then you had to have had a view which accepted the stupidity of sending waves of troops to their deaths in efforts to overwhelm the opposition with numbers.
I think you have to have the same kind of courage now as you did then, as you know you could be killed at any moment. However, back then you had to have had a view which accepted the stupidity of sending waves of troops to their deaths in efforts to overwhelm the opposition with numbers.
The sense of honor and duty was perhaps a bit greater than it is today, that and the fact that the world wars and the Civil War were titanic struggles that both sides knew would immensely change the world by its outcome.
