08-26-2008, 10:16 PM
Quote:I ask only that Mitra doesn't deny the evidences.
I don't deny the evidences (you report me one with historical validity?) i contest:
1 - the test conditions: the psicological and mass conditions for recreate a true battle not exist. The same medical proof many report here, tell also that the fight or flight condition alterate in the human being the phisical and psicological status. Exist case of policemen that have fought for several minutes with a gun hole in the breast or hearth.
2 - Put aside completly the sources/document; this is not as historical research work.
3 - Found a theory, no research possible alternative: the battle lull have the same pratical effect of rank rotations, and more link in the sources.
4 - Write phrase like "no doubts", and transform theories in "Gospels" on the basis that in simulated (but without all the condtions) battlefield proof they works.
"Each historical fact needs to be considered, insofar as possible, no with hindsight and following abstract universal principles, but in the context of own proper age and environment" Aldo A. Settia
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi