Eli5 are there in the real world troops that are meant to die, if so how does that work.

Question

in strategy games you usually have troops at the frontline whose sole purpose is to die fighting to buy you time to execute your plans or to protect stronger troops. is this something that happens in real life / used to happen before, if so what are the logistics of it, do the troops know that they are most likely goona die, etc..

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Answer 1

That is what the Russians do. Throw men at them until they run out of ammo then swarm them with the last few people they have.