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[–]astronautrob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Super fascinating, I agree. I also find the period early in the gun powder age very fascinating &how the trainong for the individual foot soldier changed. Before the mass use of handgunners in battle military leaders would tell soldier to pick out an individual target &try to shoot &kill that target. As guns become more in use they changed to training the handgunners to instead shoot at the same level as fellow handgunners &to only aim at the mass of the other force instead of individual soldiers. It even more disconnected the soldier from killing than what was already taking place because of the introduction of long range missles. I wonder if when makong that switch more soldiers than not didn't like it &contributed to them "missing" more shots or not shooting at all.