The real reason is the fact that they army doesn't have many choices whom to send. Way too many very young, mentally unstable and unexperienced guys are sent there. Few of them are really capable to withstand the extreme psychological stress and freak out.
TheDoc, there is a huge difference between accidential overreactions, a nervous trigger finger and going on a killing spee for fun. So, doing whatever necessary (from their perpective) in defense or when attacking the enemy is totally fine for me, but unnecessary cruelty is not acceptable and must have consequences or does fighting for your country and risking your life mean you are allowed to commit "minor" crimes ? What's minor and neglegtable ? From which perpective ? If you start tolerating stuff like this, you open the floodgates.
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