Quantact Wrote:In a civilized military, if the odds are running against you, you retreat or fall back in a rout, (depending on how bad things get.) Not every battle is a case of the 101st Airborne being completely surrounded, responding with the word "nuts" when the Germans demanded surrender and fighting till help got there. Usually you retreat in such odds. A perfect example was in the Korean war, when Americans attacked and instead of North Koreans soldiers they were attacked by a ginormous Chinese force, (speaking of Zerg rush.) The Americans retreated very hastily, nobody was courtmartialed or reprimanded becuase the odds were not feasible. The Russian army would have dealt with this by shooting the troops if they tried to run, forcing them to fight a suicidal battle.
[color="#cc8899"]Here I should've used a different word than retreat then. By retreat in the above I meant the disorganized individual acts of abandoning the conflict, not the organized retreats (hasty or otherwise) ordered by someone in charge. Perhaps fleeing would've been more appropriate. Given that, re-read what I posted thinking "flee" instead of "retreat."
-Edited my post to include a more accuracte term.[/COLOR]