—”This happened during the horrific 12 Battles of the Isonzo, one of the nastiest, bloodiest, but least well known campaigns of WWI, between Italy and Austro-Hungary.”
While in RVN the occasional topic was to compare our situation to the Grunts that went before us.
Incomprehensible.
If I lucked into two nearby positions?
Approx 100 klicks from Soca to the trailhead approach to the mountain hut?
If you really want a shudder, because of their mutual male baby preference for many years now, the demographic imbalance of too many males in both China and India now exceeds 50 million. Men with no hope of marriage or employment: a recipe for civil war or war.
In between the two countries is a high altitude mountainous desert of contested land. So imagine if you will a “purge of excess males mostly infantry and artillery conscription war”, like the Battles of the Isonzo, but between 10 and 100 times larger. Conventional armies remaining in the rear to stop any enemy breakthrough. No nukes, chem or lab bio.
Each soldier is issued one pound of rice and a gallon of water a day, a simple rifle and 100 rounds, uniform and boots and a blanket to sleep in sub-zero weather with.