The man without a rifle follows the man with a rifle. When the man with a rifle is killed, the man without a rifle picks up the rifle and continues forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2pBDEc6cQ
A Aussie former soldier who interviews those on the front line.
This one is particularly scary.
‘re the “man without a rifle” tactic.
It was a tactic the Red Army used during Ww2 using “penal battalions” as cannon fodder. Used to kill off criminals and Jews. My late friend Major Avram Shifrin served in one such unit. Badly wounded in his leg and several years after the war ended, he had to have it amputated.
Survived most of the remaining Stalin years by changing his first name from Abraham to Avram. Picked up off the streets of Moscow and sent to Siberia for slave labor for ten years.