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One of Iraq's problems in this regard is an uncontrollably long border with Iran and Syria, that makes peacekeeping nearly impossible, with your enemies having explosives and support readily available.
Pubic, military training is in part focussed on overcoming man's natural resistance to killing another man, this is what your training will mostly focus on, it's psychological training as much as physical, and every single word they tell you isn't necissarily the truth, it's what they have to tell you in order to make you what they want you to be: A soldier who follows orders and kills when he has to.
Modern armies are still geared towards fighting as their primary task (Or shoot the shit out of everyone, if you wish).
However in practise, peacekeeping and other tasks will be much more common than actual fighting, part of the problem is inadequate training for the way militaries are used nowadays. It's a cold war relic really.
@Gibsonfire: Wars never were good vs bad, not even the leaders. Hitler may have been evidently "bad", but were the allies "good" with their nukes and carpet bombing on civillian targets? Good and bad are a uniquely human distinction applied to pretty much everything, but i don't find them making much sense in most cases, when you think about it. If anything, war has only bad guys. In the end, both Hitler and the allied leaders have in commom that they all did what they thought was best for their nations. Good intentions, if you wish.
Pubic, military training is in part focussed on overcoming man's natural resistance to killing another man, this is what your training will mostly focus on, it's psychological training as much as physical, and every single word they tell you isn't necissarily the truth, it's what they have to tell you in order to make you what they want you to be: A soldier who follows orders and kills when he has to.
Modern armies are still geared towards fighting as their primary task (Or shoot the shit out of everyone, if you wish).
However in practise, peacekeeping and other tasks will be much more common than actual fighting, part of the problem is inadequate training for the way militaries are used nowadays. It's a cold war relic really.
@Gibsonfire: Wars never were good vs bad, not even the leaders. Hitler may have been evidently "bad", but were the allies "good" with their nukes and carpet bombing on civillian targets? Good and bad are a uniquely human distinction applied to pretty much everything, but i don't find them making much sense in most cases, when you think about it. If anything, war has only bad guys. In the end, both Hitler and the allied leaders have in commom that they all did what they thought was best for their nations. Good intentions, if you wish.