'''Penal battalions'''. The use of penal battalions is foreign to [[American]]s, yet their use throughout history and much of the world is common. Much of the fighting at the front on both sides is done with penal battalions - emptying the jails and prisons of [[criminal]] offenders with the promise of redemption and freedom. Criminals generally are not very bright, and don't really think about defecting to the other side where they won't be received into the society anyway. As a rule they generally want to, or rather need to, stay in the society and culture that they know and is familiar. In the cases of true [[psychopath]]s, they won't be trusted with a gun, but rather a shovel to dig trenches. | '''Penal battalions'''. The use of penal battalions is foreign to [[American]]s, yet their use throughout history and much of the world is common. Much of the fighting at the front on both sides is done with penal battalions - emptying the jails and prisons of [[criminal]] offenders with the promise of redemption and freedom. Criminals generally are not very bright, and don't really think about defecting to the other side where they won't be received into the society anyway. As a rule they generally want to, or rather need to, stay in the society and culture that they know and is familiar. In the cases of true [[psychopath]]s, they won't be trusted with a gun, but rather a shovel to dig trenches. |