Some actually seem to relish the combat and confusion, as if this were a National Football League game with constantly changing rules.
Now comes "Untitled," an emotionally powerful hourlong montage of archival film footage documenting grass-roots protests that finally spurred public and private interests to come up with the money to develop treatments for AIDS-related diseases and programs to combat the confusion they created.
The feature is both a brilliant distortion of perspective and a cunning approximation of the confusion of combat.
The artificial skylight, which turns dark at night, is intended to combat "sundowning" — agitation and confusion at the end of the day.
In the past year, more than a dozen Web sites have been developed to solicit donations to hire private lawyers for service members who have been charged with violent crimes for actions taken in the confusion of combat or counterinsurgency operations.
Director Janus Metz Pedersen and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months filming the young men stationed less than a kilometre away from a Taliban stronghold and captured both the terrifying confusion of combat and the compromised politics of occupation.
But the study rejected the contention that the soldiers were under orders to kill civilians, and instead ascribed the shootings to the confusion of combat and the poor training of the soldiers who had been rushed to the Korean battlefield from occupation duty in Japan.
Whether horses were trained to pull chariots, to be ridden as light or heavy cavalry, or to carry the armoured knight, much training was required to overcome the horse's natural instinct to flee from noise, the smell of blood, and the confusion of combat.
And in the confusion of daily combat in Jobar's Bahra 1 sector, this sound didn't catch the attention of the fighters of the Tahrir al-Sham ('Liberation of Syria') Brigade.
Based on memory, official Army records and interviews with his Army buddies, his account is a marvel in its rendering of sporadic brushes with death and the miserable, cold, wet confusion of winter combat.
