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Originally Posted by Olefin
Thats one place where I disagree strongly with the authors of the game - i.e. that Americans and British soldiers would so easily desert their units - maybe if this was the old US army that was mostly draftees - but by the mid 90's the regular US Army was as professional as the British one was
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I'm talking about late in the Twilight War, Ole. By 2000, wouldn't a lot of front line combat troops be draftees and former REMFs? Those types aren't necessarily your best trained, equipped, and motivated troops. As I mentioned in my first post, being a replacement or among replacements could sever the bonds of comradery that binds military units together. Now imagine that your unit is low on supplies. If desertion was a problem for the U.S. Army in the ETO during WWII, especially when we were clearly winning the war, I can easily see it as being doubly so c.2000. Honestly, at that point, aside from one's buddies, what would be worth fighting for? If your buddies were all dead or you were stuck in a new unit with a bunch of strangers, there'd be even fewer reasons not to desert. It would be endemic.