Them Or You?

 

Magna Carta 'Great Charter of Freedoms' was a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England in 1215.  It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown.

"This did not satisfy everyone."

The Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) was a series of civil wars between England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne by the Kingdom of England.

"That didn't satisfy everyone."

King Louis VII of France made Henry II the Duke of Normandy (France) in 1150.  Henry II was King of England from 1154-89.  The Royal House of Plantagenet in France then held the English throne to stop widespread breakdown in law and order called the 'Anarchy Crisis'.

"Other things didn't satisfy everyone."

From the 1340s to the 19th century the kings and queens of the Kingdom of England, Ireland, and Great Britain claimed the throne of France.

Edward III was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327-77.  His military success restored royal authority after disastrous unorthodox French reign to began to follow the Magna Carta once again.

Magna Carta exercised a strong influence both on the United States Constitution and on the Constitutions of the various States within the Union.  Magna Carta was widely held to be the people’s reassertion of rights against an oppressive rule, a legacy began that captured American distrust of  concentrated Federal Government in the 1800's.

"Still did not satisfy all, futile."

State Constitutions began including Declarations of Rights intended to guarantee citizens a list of protections and immunities from State Government.

"Still not having laws satisfy all, futile."

Some of the worst expressions of toxicity can be people who appear superficially kind on the outside.  If they cannot communicate in a straightforward manner they use violence as a defense.

"Thinking that any one thing can satisfy all people is an oversight in leadership."

On July 3, 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee renewed his offensive at Culp's Hill.  Federal Commander General George Meade predicted that Lee would next assault the center of the Union lines positioned along the low but defensible Cemetery Ridge. General George Pickett's three brigades of roughly 5,400 men from Virginia made up one-third of Lee's strike force.  They lost about half of their men that engaged in the charge and sustained 6,555 casualties in less than an hour.  The full frontal assault was futile making Pickett weep.  He blamed Lee for causing the action and the suffering survivors wanted to kill their own commanding generals.

"Should soldiers kill their own commanding officers if a oversight sends them into doom?"

On October 13, 2004, nineteen soldiers from a US supply unit in Iraq refused to drive seven unarmoured fuel tankers along roads to areas near Baghdad.  There was an oversight by their commander failing to realize resistance attacks on convoys were a daily occurrence.

The soldiers involved of the Army Reserve 343rd Quartermaster Company-South Carolina, and bases from Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina and Mississippi.

"The troops viewed the orders as a suicide mission."

The military term for 'Friendly Fire' is 'fratricide'. An assassin sees his commander as an enemy, kills him and it looks like an accident.

A) Accidentally mistaken for a hostile.
B) Accidentally walked into direct fire.
C) Bombardment off target fell on him.

During industrialized warfare deaths from friendly fire are common.  Al those guns, artillery, and aircraft going off,

"Who would ever know?"

Leadership should involve an understanding of human behavior not only mission accomplishment.  Involves the welfare and morale of his men too. Rebellious sentiment within the military is the reality of policing a bad oversight.

"It's his mistake executing command decisions that didn't bring credit to his men."

"It's he that will tie all that disagree to a post, blindfolded before a priest gives a final blessing."

The Dnieper–Carpathian offensive was a strategic offensive by Stalin in the Ukraine against the Nazis (1943-44).  

"It began Christmas holiday time, and was very cold."

There are 10,000-20,000 soldiers in one Army Division.

Twenty Wehrmacht divisions were dead.
(200,000-400,000).  Then their bodies sunk under in the mud, along with their tanks, assault guns, artillery and trucks.

"Reichswehr von Tippelskirch hadn't felt that sad since Stalingrad."

For the Wehrmacht defeat, Field Marshalls Erich von Manstein and  Ewald von Kleist were dismissed by Hitler and then replaced.

Nazi Field Marshall commands one Army group, (Heeresgruppen) consisting of several armies with 400,000-1,000,000 soldiers each.

For some more Lebensraum (living space) deurbanization.  Their commanding officers led their men a futile way.


Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide when cornered by Russian troops in his bunker while other high ranking Nazi leaders did the same.  Cyanide suicide pill called the L-Pill (L for lethal) is ordered in case you charge into battle but got caught prisoner.
Commanding officers can order troops into a suicide mission if it helps.
Military members disobey orders at their own risk. They also obey orders at their own risk. An order to perform a military duty, no matter how dangerous, is lawful as long as it doesn't involve the commission of a crime.

Suicide to was better to avoid an imminent and far more unpleasant death through torture.  It also ensured that they could not be interrogated and forced to disclose secret information.