Paul Lockett on Nostr: I'm not convinced. They still avoid the worst of the conditions forced on the general ...

I'm not convinced. They still avoid the worst of the conditions forced on the general population. I would suggest that if you looked at the split of who was in the trenches in WWI versus who was an officer miles away from the horrors, there would be a clear split.

What war can do is make it clearer to people that they are being shafted and make them more combative about it (e.g the Kinder Trespass).