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Dec 7, 2022Liked by John Birmingham

These questions summarize very to the point the dilemma of surrendering. I would add one more here: what are one's odds of surviving if one does not surrender?

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Probs best to just avoid the whole business.

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Cue Ron Perlman "War, ...War never changes"

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Really good read. Important, even.

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The man who wrote the book on war, entitled The Art Of War, Sun Tzu,

said, "The captured soldier should be kindly treated and kept".

Aspects of war change and evolve, the twenty-first soldier may very well be a man or a woman. The circumstance immediately before capture might be the same for both sexes, as they relinquish their weapons. That part of Sun Tzu's quote that refers to how a prisoner is treated after the initial surrender, could be vastly different. The woman will very often have to undergo a horrific physical trauma, which a man does not have to endure, often more than once.

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