Would you be willing to fight for your country?

[Nabil365]

I have to fight for my country....

 

[jhungary]

I did fought for my country. And here are my takes.

Let me first start by quoting Lord Tennyson, the charge of the light brigade.

"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die"

It is a soldier duty to not ask question and follow the order given to you by your superior, and if only everyone do not question their superior's order and do exactly what you have been told, that is the only way an Army could function.

Ideally, the best soldier is one that would not think, nor would it process anything coming to them, just follow it to the letters.

However, a soldier's duty is not just to fight and die in battlefield, a solder, or an army have the duty to prevent war from starting in the first place. A well trained, well behave army should deter war from starting in the first place.

So, would I fight or die for my country? Nope, a war is not about a country, not to you anyway, in a grunt prespective, a war is about yourself, a war is about the people you protect, a war is about the people you killed. All of which have nothing to do with your country. Why?

When you lay down your life for someone, you do it because you know he or she will laid down his/her life for you, not because this is what your country tell you to do so. When you kill someone, you do that beucase you think what you are doing is just, not becuase this is what your country telling you to do so. And in war, individual soldier does not matter, units does not matter, without the corp-de-spirit you are not getting anywhere. Let alone laying down your life for anything.

In war, you die for your buddies, your troops, not your countries. in fact, if you are very patriotic, I would advice you not to join the military. Because some where down the road, you will realise even I am very patriotic, in the eyes of your country, you, as a lowly soldier, mean nothing to it. And once you realise this, you cannot function as a soldier.

Would I be dying for my country? No. Would I be dying for the man next to me? You damn right I would.

 

[Sugarcane]

11% Pakistanis are consistent in different surveys, we need to find them.

 

[Gandh brandi]

I did fought for my country. And here are my takes.

Let me first start by quoting Lord Tennyson, the charge of the light brigade.

"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die"

It is a soldier duty to not ask question and follow the order given to you by your superior, and if only everyone do not question their superior's order and do exactly what you have been told, that is the only way an Army could function.

Ideally, the best soldier is one that would not think, nor would it process anything coming to them, just follow it to the letters.

However, a soldier's duty is not just to fight and die in battlefield, a solder, or an army have the duty to prevent war from starting in the first place. A well trained, well behave army should deter war from starting in the first place.

So, would I fight or die for my country? Nope, a war is not about a country, not to you anyway, in a grunt prespective, a war is about yourself, a war is about the people you protect, a war is about the people you killed. All of which have nothing to do with your country. Why?

When you lay down your life for someone, you do it because you know he or she will laid down his/her life for you, not because this is what your country tell you to do so. When you kill someone, you do that beucase you think what you are doing is just, not becuase this is what your country telling you to do so. And in war, individual soldier does not matter, units does not matter, without the corp-de-spirit you are not getting anywhere. Let alone laying down your life for anything.

In war, you die for your buddies, your troops, not your countries. in fact, if you are very patriotic, I would advice you not to join the military. Because some where down the road, you will realise even I am very patriotic, in the eyes of your country, you, as a lowly soldier, mean nothing to it. And once you realise this, you cannot function as a soldier.

Would I be dying for my country? No. Would I be dying for the man next to me? You damn right I would.

Amen to that.

@schoolboy war is not justice I'll tell you that. But it's justified. Hell, everything in life worth fighting for is justified. Terrorists justify killing as a puritan thing, we in turn justify killing them, capitalists justified oppressing communism as a good thing for democracy (cold war era U.S.), communists oppressed democracy by justifying for stability and so on and so forth. A few years ago I loathed war just like you. But today I've come to accept it as human nature. You can't simultaneously do a bad thing and not be weighed down by guilt. So no. War is not justice, but every time it's justified.

 

[BD_India_friend]

YES, TILL THE LAST DROP OF BLOOD.

 

[Mage]

I will fight behind my key board and destroy the enemy Me so stronk