Everybody seems to be focusing their responses on industrialized (modern) warfare, but consider that the soldiers from antiquity through the middle ages often suffered through thirst, starvation, exposure, and disease just to get to the battle, and that the surviving losers were often subjected to such niceties as enslavement, blinding, maiming, and emasculation.
It truly would have sucked to have been one of them.
This sounds a lot like ISIS on the march currently.
