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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Part of the job of the unit personnel officer (S1 under NATO staff system, other designations outside of NATO system) is to, in addition to regular HR stuff like processing pay and boring paperwork, figure out an estimate of how many casualties to expect when the various staff officers are advising the commander for how to come up with a plan. His job also includes advising the commander on how to adjust to having fewer guys around afterwards.
Really, one of the main reasons why they discourage social ties between officers and enlisted troops is that the officers are going to have to tell people to risk their lives, might have to pick people to do something knowing that they will most likely be killed (even if he doesn’t tell them that). For example: if Staff Sergeant Jones from Third Platoon is one of Captain Smith’s drinking buddies, he might be inclined to give the less dangerous missions to Third Platoon, which is unfair to First and Second Platoon (infantry companies typically have four platoons, but Fourth Platoon is where they keep the heavy weapons that are bigger than stuff held at platoon level, such as mortars).
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