Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet, you can’t win.Robert A. Heinlein
In battle, the sound of enemy planes overhead - especially those dropping bombs - is particularly demoralizing to infantry. I’ve read that, in the Soviet Union, they would train their infantry to fire overhead when they heard enemy planes approaching. Not just your typical anti-aircraft rockets and artillery, but even small arms. Every man, sitting in his foxhole, aims his AK to the sky and lets go a clip.
The actual chance of bringing down a fighter jet with 30 caliber bullets from a carbine is next to nil, but that’s not the point. A clip full of ammo is cheap and fixing holes in planes - even relatively small holes - is expensive.
And letting a clip fly at that all-powerful jet is great for morale.
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So what are you trying to say?
When things seem insurmountable, when the chips are down, when the odds are stacked against you, you have a choice.
You can put your head down, still have a reasonable chance of getting blasted, and watch morale (and will-to-succeed) slowly slip away. You lose sight of your goals. “Win the war” becomes “hope I don’t die this instant”. That’s no way to be successful.
OR
You can do something. Your chances of getting blasted are only slightly higher, and you may actually accomplish something.
Even if you don’t hit anything - even if you’re not initially successful or success is too small to be measurable - it FEELS better to be offensive than defensive. It FEELS better to do something than do nothing.
And if it FEELS like you’re doing something - being productive, working toward a goal, contributing to a cause - your morale and the morale of those around you, stays positive; and success (no matter how difficult) becomes just a bit more likely.
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