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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (30561)5/24/2002 2:14:39 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
By conducting extensive post-combat interviews, Marshall discovered that the great majority of combat soldiers were unable to overcome their moral reservations about killing. [6] He documented the stunning fact that less than 25% of the rifleman in combat fired their weapons, and “that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure.”[7] Furthermore, his researchers found that the willingness (and unwillingness) of soldiers to fire their weapons was a constant—the same minority of soldiers fired their weapons in successive battles; rarely did a non-firer become a firer. He concluded that the military training of that day made the already-willing soldiers more skilled at killing, but it did not make all--or even most—soldiers willing to kill in combat.[8]

Somehow I don't think that "the that fear of killing" (an Israeli or an American soldier) is the reason that the Arab countries have ineffective armies.
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