Psychology of Killing

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Bullets aren't intended only for killing enemy soldiers. One of the main concepts in war is gaining the upper hand by controlling strategically important locations, which can be done through pinning enemy soldiers down and forcing them into cover and ideally forcing them to retreat. That's the reason soldiers are given so much ammo in the first place. To suggest that they would waste 50K bullets just to avoid killing someone is very ignorant.

That is totally logical. Flee from danger. I was a bit puzzled when I read that figure and wondered if that could really be true and with the addition of what you wrote the image is less blurry.

However, that aspect is never, or very rarely, shown in movies or video games though.

True. Still, there are some absolutely fantastic movies that portray war from the soldiers' standpoint and just what it can do to people. Namely: Jacob's Ladder (to a certain extent - not really a war movie), Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now. Also, the Metal Gear series focuses really heavily on these types of topics. But you're right that Hollywood has given most of us a skewed view of war. Then again, Hollywood gives people a skewed view of almost everything.