What does your country's military doctrine say about prisoners of war?

[onodera]

We all know what Geneva conventions say about wars. They imagine them as lines of easily identifiable soldiers cleanly killing each other because their country leaders told them so. If you are hit, lucky you, you can no longer be shot at and can relax in hospital; if you are taken prisoner, lucky you, you can spend the rest of the war in a camp, being cared for. That's a load of bull, to be short.

Russian soldiers are taught that being taken prisoner is bad. So bad that they are forbidden to surrender. If you are surrounded, you should try and trick the enemy soldiers into approaching you and kill as many as you can by blowing everyone up with a grenade.
If you are incapacitated and the enemy soldiers take you prisoner when you are unconscious, then it's probably okay. But still you can't enjoy your life as a prisoner. You have to escape or die trying, and happily labouring away in a prisoner camp is collaborating with the enemy.
Enemy soldiers that are taken prisoner are not your guests that you have to feed, clothe, nurture back to health and so on. They are the spoils of war, free labour force that has to work to pay for what they have done to your country. They are also a commodity to pay for your own captive soldiers.

What are the soldiers of your country taught?

[Felch]

Re: What does your country's military doctrine say about prisoners of war?

Originally posted by onodera
What are the soldiers of your country taught?

Better dead than Red.

[Lorizael]

In my country, my soldiers will be taught to take no prisoners. But that's mostly because my wars will involve large scale use of nuclear weapons.

[Patroklos]

Eat them if you run out of rations.

Russian soldiers are taught that being taken prisoner is bad. So bad that they are forbidden to surrender.

Obviously you learned nothing from the Great Patriotic War.

[Lancer]

I've read stories of courageous Russian prisoners pissing on V2 rocket guidance systems in German labor camps during WW2, and paying the price sometimes. Tough people! Then when the survivors got back to Russia, Stalin had alot of them shot for having seen the luxuries of the west. At least that's what was reported here. Whether it is true or not its likely none of us know.

[BeBMan]

"Kill'em all and let god sort'em out"

[Lancer]

Ha! They pissed on your rockets!

[BeBMan]

Biological warfare

[Lancer]

Urine i n s p a c e.

Russian urine was the first urine to get into space aboard German rockets.

FACT!

[BeBMan]

Well, remember those rockets were meant to be used against the western allies. It's bad enough when a V2 destroys stuff and kills people, but imagine on top of that it comes down "contaminated" in that way

[Vesayen]

My country currently says you can take anyone, including citizens of that country, prisoner and hook their balls up to car batteries, put them in dark rooms and solitary confinement for years and never give them a chance to claim they are in fact, not soldiers.

All enemy soldiers become terrorists who are apparently not protected by the Geneva convention or, the laws of the nation where they are held.

Can you guess what country I live in? First one to guess gets a prize!

[Felch]

Switzerland?

I knew you were a tough bunch of S.O.B.s

[DanS]

In our recent wars, the doctrine is... don't get caught, because our adversaries don't take prisoners.

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Felch
Switzerland?

I knew you were a tough bunch of S.O.B.s

Nope! Guess again. I'll give you a hint, we were fundamental in the drafting of many international human rights agreements!

[Felch]

You're from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? I thought they were disbanded!