Social Justice Warriors Thread

[DBTrek]

... thousands of years of recorded Ancient Egyptian military campaigns.

Dorks in 2019: Africa ain’t got high enough IQ to field an effective army.

Smh

[Smitty-48]

I only ever knew one guy who served in the Rhodesian Light Infantry.

He said the same thing the Belgians said in the Congo.

"There are good blacks and there are bad blacks"

The RLI had blacks fighting with them and against them.

[DBTrek]

Since the vast majority of all human armies have been illiterate, imma go out on a limb and say IQ is a minor if not completely irrelevant factor in fielding an effective army. History is replete with dumbass, successful generals.

[Smitty-48]

Since the vast majority of all human armies have been illiterate, imma go out on a limb and say IQ is a minor if not completely irrelevant factor in fielding and effective army. History is replete with dumbass, successful generals.

How smart do you have to be to plant a landmine?

The communists often used children to do it.

It was the landmines which were the arm of decision in Southern Africa.

Viet Cong. Booby Traps for the win.

[DBTrek]

Who here thinks Boudicca, Spartacus, Gen. Grant, or Gen. Zhukov could’ve aced their SATs? Who thinks their armies were saturated with high IQ soldiers?

Ridiculous.

[Smitty-48]

Who here thinks Boudicca, Spartacus, Gen. Grant, or Gen. Zhukov could’ve aced their SATs? Who thinks their armies were saturated with high IQ soldiers?

Ridiculous.

Smart troops are not actually a boon.

They tend to question things, next thing you know you've got a mutiny on your hands.

[Smitty-48]

For an imperial army, only the officers should be educated, the troops should simply be trained to follow orders unquestioningly.

[DBTrek]

Like trying to pick your MMA winners off of IQ.
People with extremely high IQs aren’t in the octagon. The remainder have enough IQ to fight.
So what’s really important is who is the better fighter.

Illiterate Afghanis probably aren’t smarter than soldiers of the Soviet military.
But they still beat their asses.

[Smitty-48]

At the zenith of the British Empire, half the British Army was Indian Sepoys.

They were elite troops, shock troops of the Empire.

But they were of course totally uneducated and ignorant.

But that was the point.

The British officers did all the thinking.

You don't want your troops to be thinking, in an imperial army.

Next thing you know, you'll have a mutiny on your hands.

[DBTrek]

Agreed.
I think we’ve buried the horse at this point.
IQ don’t mean shit where armies are concerned.

IQ belongs back at home base doing R&D so you can hand your dumbass troops rifles while the other guys troops are still using crossbows.

That’s IQs place in warfare.