Creating Military Culture From Scratch

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by combatmedic

Such is your assertion, at any rate.

I am a number to the government. I am a number to any given corporation. If say, Obama wanted me for slave labor to build a glorious pyrimid to bury him in filled with labyrinthine passages, deathtraps and treasure then said objectification would harm me. However even his harshest critics have not imputed such ambitions.

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

Can you give an example from before 1700 or outside of Europe (and not in a country which deliberately copied European military organization?) Many Classical Greek armies, for example, had no officers below the lochagos who commanded a company of 50-100.

In a phalanx the only purpose of officers would be as traffic directors. Tactics were just to simple.

[jason taylor]

Shouldn't you have stories to go with it? For instance when Sikhs decided to turn into a Proud Warrior Race by virtue of having an uncomfortable number of proud warrior races around them, the guru asked his followers if they were prepared to die. Five stood up. He took each of them, one by one and came back with a bloody sword. After all this was done he came back with all five safe and sound and revealed that it had been a goat. Another episode in the initiation had something to do with candy made by the guru's wife. I forget that story.