BA's NON RESPONSE to Homeland Disaster will affect Troop morale.

[elehhhhna]

bank on it.

[cbear70]

1. yes

I just told my husband this last night. How they must feel over there wondering what the hell they are doing there... watching the chaos over here without them.

[Lars39]

2. Distracted soldiers get killed.

I haven't heard anything about the NG from affected states being allowed to come home. They've got to be worried half to death.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a military uprising in Iraq because of this.

[hobbit709]

3. 1917-The Russian troops had had enough

and started walking home. That finished the Czarist government.

[elehhhhna]

4. I'm rereading Nichols & Alexandra. This struck me:

"...behind the massive facade of an enormous empire, the apparatus of government, the structure of society and economy were too primitive, too inflexible, and too brittle to withstand the enormous strains of ...war."

(re: Russia in 1914)