All they want at that point is to go home to be with loved ones...there is a frequent myth in the military that only weak soldiers have mental health issues after combat".
"You answer for that weak soldier who couldn't have a voice," he said.
They believed Danny was a weak soldier, someone who fell asleep on guard duty, who forgot his helmet.
You remember how the Republicans managed to make John Kerry, the Vietnam Veteran, seem like the weak soldier while George Bush, who hid out from the draft, was built up as the military guy.
Because the armed forces are powerful, the government is weak; and the soldiers' frequent interventions in Pakistani politics exacerbate this imbalance and undermine democracy.Second, it has shaped Pakistan's dealings in Afghanistan.
But, once the country's thousands of troops, fighter planes and helicopters leave, Mali's weak army and soldiers from neighbouring countries may be hard pressed to retain control of northern Mali's cities if the Islamic extremists attempt a comeback from their desert hideouts.
"I can see the morale of the Abu Sayyaf group is very high, and the morale of the soldiers very weak".
The institution decayed from the very danger it was designed to prevent: weak sultans allowed the soldiers' sons to succeed their fathers in office, whereupon the soldiers' loyalty reverted to their families instead of the state.
Mercer does think the English army, which included many soldiers already weak and ill after the siege of Harfleur, was heavily outnumbered – though not 10 to one as some have suggested – but that, crucially, Henry's far higher percentage of archers turned the battle.
As Peter Hart notes, the contemporary view of the Somme "can be brutally summarized in just five words: 'the pity of it all.' Politicians are portrayed as Machiavellian, but simultaneously weak, generals are stupid, soldiers are brave helpless victims and war poets — war poets are the latter-day saints made flesh".
