And that is why I love the Spetsnaz.
Sadism at its finest :drunkb:
Russians act their way, everybody does, so fine for what they do what they think what to do.
Things in Spanish army have changed a lot with new government. Of course it all depends on your officers ideas, but I remember in training in my old times.
We where in a theorical class when suddenly my liutenant told us:
"Imagine we have to get a pick, enemy is fierce and good equipied, in the attack we loose lots of comrades, the enemy ends all their ammo and survivals surrender, but after that pick there is a nearly new enemy position, what would be do?"
People start saying things like interrogating survivals, make them prisioners and sending to headquarter...etc.
The officer (one of the best I have never known) said: " We are Legion, we are always in the front line, have no time to rest. We will put in the enemy position where they can see us and we will cut all survival necks, so they can see what will happen when we arrive there. Some of them will leave their positions in next attack, some of them will fight to death and we could demonstrate who is fiercest.
Other time we where training prisioners treatment, almost all company had the character of prisiones and a few where acting like armed legionaries with false munition. Then our sargeant told us:
"We are on attack, can´t be taking care of them so many man, so only a couple will manage them, rest have to go on advancing, what would we do?"
Ideas begun to flow, and after a few ones sargent said by signals to a couple of prisioners. Stand up, the "prisioners did it" and he made signals they could run away, said: go, go fast and run.
They did it and after a few meters the sargeant said to the legionaries. Kill them, shot em. They did it. He concluded. I think no one of these is trying to move after this, so only a couple of legionaries will be here, rest will advance.
Of course, this is when I was in. International missions, political officers will never do it I think, but I will do it honestly in a crude, fierce and real situation. No doubt.