[split] Psychology of the Roman soldier

[Bryan]

great video on this topic from Lindy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViyZGmBhvs

As soon as he mentioned SLA Marshall I tuned out, because Marshall's studies were bogus, he faked the unit interviews in order to support his theory. Numerous infantry leaders told him strait out afterwards that they didn't believe his study was true, they saw the opposite. In Korea and Vietnam, when historians who weren't Marshall conducted actual unit interviews they found that over 90% of the troops were firing their weapons at the enemy. I was in Iraq as an infantry, I saw almost nobody that refused to shoot, the opposite really, where people wanted to. The few times they didn't it was usually because they were waiting on a command from a junior NCO because the individual didn't possess initiative, but even that was rare (since initiative is encouraged in the US military).