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wackyteen posted...

I mean, to be fair, that was the tactic in WW2.

I'm talking mainly about the kind of thing like in Enemy at the Gates, where only half of the men are even armed and there are machine guns set up behind the lines to shoot anyone who retreats. It's a really pervasive image, and it only ever really happened among penal battalions and formation of civilians that were pressed into emergency service on extremely short notice.