Original sentence: Capital punishment, usually by firing squad, is used almost universally to maintain discipline in conscript armies during wartime.Consequently, conscript armies are more likely to mutiny than all-volunteer forces, and can in extreme cases turn against their own, the Vlasov army being an example.Discipline problems become much worse when the ablest of the youth are forced to serve against their will under the authority of people they consider less intelligent, untalented, or simply because of unquestioned authority.This can be best summarized by a statement from Leon Trotsky:.This was seldom a problem in the period of Industrialism when only the upper classes had access to higher education, but proved problematic in the Vietnam War, when college students were conscripted to fight under non-commissioned officers who seldom had any higher education
Edited sentence: As the able boys felt they were being led into slaughter by leaders dumber than themselves, the morale sank very low, and led into erosion of discipline, culminating into murders and fragging incidents.Capital punishment, usually by firing squad, is used almost universally to maintain discipline on conscription armies during the wartime.Consequently, conscript armies are more likely to mutiny than all-volunteer forces, and can in extreme cases turn against their own, the Vlasov army being the ultimate example.Especially dire the discipline problems become when the ablest of the youth are forced to serve against their will under the authority of people they consider dumber or untalented or simply because of unquestioned authority.This can be best summarized by statement of Leon Trotsky:.This problem could be avoided to some extent by giving the most able conscripts NCO or officer training, which was widely done in the US Army during World War II.This was seldom a problem in the period of Industrialism when only the upper social classes had access for higher education, but proved problematic already in the Vietnam War, when college students were conscripted to fight as privates under non-commissioned officers who seldom had any higher education