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

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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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A lot of great answers already here. I’ll add: you incentivize soldiers going to the front lines either through cash payments (usually to the family members, since the soldier may not live long) or you offer prisoners a get-out-of-jail ticket (see: Russia).

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