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Human beings have evolved to maximize their own survival, including in warfare. The historical strategy for warfare has been to avoid fighting if at all possible. Stand tall, talk shit, beat your shields, and make the other guy piss himself so neither of you has to risk dying.
There are anecdotes from WW1 about British troops encountering German troops in the woods and yelling at each other, beginning to throw rocks, and then both groups retreating. When asked by their superiors why they didn't engage the enemy, they would say something like, "It never occurred to us." Both groups survived the encounter because they chose not to really fight.
Our instincts program us to fight and kill only if we absolutely have to. About 1% of humans have this instinct broken and they enjoy killing other people for the sheer thrill. We call these people "sociopaths." They do a big chunk of the killing in war.
Then you have another chunk of people I call "dangerous empath." They do about as much killing as sociopaths. These guys get pissed off at the sociopaths on the other side killing their normie comrades and then go on love-fueled rampages where they kill as many enemy soldiers as possibly to save their friends' lives.
Normie soldiers killing other normie soldiers usually only happened by accident. Normie soldiers would shoot to kill only if they felt their lives were immediately threatened.
We found all this out after WWII. So we changed our training methods, used human shaped targets, developed emotionally abusive boot camps, and trained soldiers to automatically fire at human shaped targets.
At the same time we teach male children that murder is the worst crime you can ever commit, and that war is terrible and there is no glory in it.
You take these kids programmed from childhood not to fight or kill people, then mkultra them into behaving like sociopaths, and the dissonance breaks their minds.
