The Chinese have an army for everything, their postal workers are an army, their nurses are an army, their workers are an army...
That whole Mao nationalism is one sick way to live. Hell, it better to be poor than to get rich like that.
By IAF:
posted on 17-6-2007
To answer your question, netty, uniformity and precise movement and "robotic symmetry" is for discipline, attention to detail and unquestioning
reaction to orders given.
When the bullets are flying your decision-making ability goes to crap, so your body relies on the training and retraining you and your unit received
to get all those trained movements down pat. When your brain acts in such a manner and your comrads are trained in the same manner, everyone knows
what the other is doing and knows what to expect from one another. Otherwise the battlefield would be total chaos.
Training and retraining necessary to execute organized movements, while not necessary on todays battlefield as they were back in the battlefield
tactics before the more accurate and high-vulume weapons of today, instill a sense of discipline to react unquestioningly to commands.
It doesn't dehumanize the soldier, it makes the soldier part of a unit. The unit, then, can act as a single entity.
It all makes sense, really.
By Thomas_Crowne:
posted on 17-6-2007
