re: #196 Dark_Falcon

Actually, Obdi, that isn’t really true. More than one study and many accounts by combat veterans have made clear the extent to which soldiers are motivated by their regard for their comrades. So my point actually has a fair bit of grounding.

No, it doesn’t. Audie’s story illustrates what the studies show. Audie’s story doesn’t show us anything on it’s own.

The issue of motivation in soldiers is a pretty difficult one to study, because even in anonymous circumstances there’s obviously societal pressure to say the ‘right’ thing.

I forget who proposed it, but are you aware of the three stages of a soldier dealing with front-line fighting?