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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the sign of a modern cutting edge military totally in control of their own frontline

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Next they'll use decimation like ancient Roman armies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be the first time. The soviets already did that in ww2, so there is a precedent for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like my original source was antony beevors book 'stalingrad', but the wikipedia page on decimation has a lot of discussion about the veracity of it, and it no longer appears on the main page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. Beevor seems willing to take at face value quite a lot of stories that kinda, let's say, strain credulity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, good ol' times.