On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:47:37PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:22:59PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > > Of course, wounding the enemy is nearly *always* more desirable than > > outright killing him. That is because every wounded soldier takes at > > least one other soldier (or other person, even if not a soldier) in > > order to care for his wounds in the short term. So, from a resource > > perspective, wounded soldiers place a much heavier burden on a military > > force than corpses. > > OTOH, wounded soldiers, even mortally wounded ones, often continue to > fight, so its hard to justify such moral calculus in the heat of > battle - one way or the other. > Good point. However the VC used the "wound rather than kill" strategy to great effect against the US.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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