Part II. civilian War
Chapter I. The presence of civilians in theatre activities
The perfect of military planners is the deficiency of civilians in the war area. Civilians get in the way, they sow confusion, they lower morale for defenders. It disturbs, however, due to the fact that soldiers sometimes wonder about carrying out tasks and orders assigned to them, erstwhile they know that there are outsiders, or civilians, in the theatre. It creates confusion due to the fact that it appears in the least anticipated places and moments, requiring the commanders of improvisation and weighing priorities – mission or safety of civilians. A civilian lowers morale due to the fact that soldiers no longer willingly shoot erstwhile they know that their “fire tasks” can origin civilian casualties among the population they are expected to defend.
The deficiency of civilians in the area of combat solves military hands – you can burn, destroy, bombard and organize without any restrictions specified a war for peace so that the stone on the stone does not last. To lay on the altar of the homeland the material achievements of individuals and generations. announcement that virtually no property insurance covers harm caused by war. Does this someway paralyze the actions of the soldiers and the authorities in charge? No, no – the defence of the homeland has a higher precedence than someone's house, car, device park, warehouse with goods. As you say – it is not time to save roses erstwhile forests are burning. Unfortunately, the past of wars proves that, after their completion, civilians who have lost their lives and have preserved their own lives are left to themselves. Let them be happy to last and start over.
Therefore, in the case of war, there is simply a immense conflict of interest from the first moments of war. Public power focuses on saving the state. The civilian population, on the another hand, focuses on saving itself and its belongings. I read somewhere on the net that 1 of the alleged states. Pribaltics (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) plans to complete the evacuation of civilians in case of war. That means the country being attacked is to leave all civilians. Children, women, elderly, betrothed sick, people incapable to transport, people not wishing to leave their places of residence – all. In order to defend the country, the military does not gotta worry about civilians tangling under their feet.
In the field of planning and online articles, this looks like a viable operation. On paper, you can paint a movement of respective million people. It is possible to paint a adequate number of police officers who will pack the old women up to a adequate number of trains, which adequate tracks, secured with adequate anti-aircraft defence measures will take all civilians of the affected country to safety. And in practice? How can this work in practice?
Let's start with a very simple dilemma. Virtually all country in our area of Europe has any kind of agriculture. Practically all farming has it against itself that part of it is animal breeding. Evacuation of all civilians means 2 possible variants: the death of left-over self-belt breeding animals, or their mass and full evacuation. According to Eurostat data in December 2023, there were 83 350 dairy cows and 274 960 pigs in Estonia. 75,000 sheep and over 2,000,000 (two million) poultry. I've never heard of any national plans in case In they addressed the problems of livestock in reasonably tiny Estonia. And we're talking about almost 2 and a half million surviving creatures whose existence depends on man. Let us add another 1,200,000 hectares of agricultural land, on which individual sows something each year to reap it. And let's imagine that with the first shots everyone leaves.
Let us take this example to the background of the natives. In the area straight threatened by war in Poland there will most likely be about a 4th of the population of our country (counting very optimistically). Which means about 9,000,000 people. Let's add 2,000,000 pigs, 500,000 cows and 48,000 only chickens. Forty-eight million chickens from the full number of about 200 million chickens that are grown in Poland. Generals, we're gonna rotation up our sleeves and move, preferably to Germany, sixty million beings. Do you want me to number it as the number of train depots?
Well, you don't should be a god of statistic to realize that an operation to evacuate all civilians and their livestock from areas exposed to war is physically impossible. Civilians will always be present at the theatre of war. And their lives will always have a comparatively low priority. due to the fact that a civilian, like a pig, a cattle or a hen, is just a generator of all kinds of problems for a soldier. The difference is that a pig, a cattle or a hen can be killed and eaten, and civilians are mostly killed.
A variety of civilians inactive have this nasty trait that even knowing that the front is coming, they are in their home until it is far besides late for safe evacuation. Many are guided by the belief that someway it will be, that it is not our home that the rocket will hit, that it will not punish us on the street a drunk soldier, that here is our house, our field, our pigs, chickens, cats, neighbors, that it cannot be so that it will be essential to throw everything in the devil and with 1 suitcase run distant where the eyes will carry.
These are insoluble top-down dilemmas. Once, due to the fact that the state is technically incapable to solve them. Two, due to the fact that the state in which we live is not totalitarian and respects the will of the individual, even if this will results in self-destructive actions.
What does that mean to you? Not much. Did I mention that you gotta number on yourself first? Probably. But just in case, I'll remind you again. Faced with this, you are mostly the decision-maker and contractor of any action to safe your life and property. It's time to complain that individual there didn't do something, and possibly he should have done it, he'll come back later. Of course, these objections will not yield anything, although this or any another option will most likely break any political capital. And another alternatively crucial observation. Wherever you are, whatever option you choose, you will practically always and everywhere meet civilians. That's good information. You won't be alone. Doesn't mean all civilian you meet on your way through hell of time. He'll be helpful or kind.
