why aren't wars resolved this way? the leaders of the countries choose the best warriors and the weapons with which to fight, the one who wins wins the battle, there may be several battles and whoever wins more wins the main war
instead there are millions of dead and long years of fighting
Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?
Most did historically
Most did, it was customary. Now just imagine modern politicians, Orange Man or Senile Pedo grabbing a gun and going to the frontlines to kill slavs. That will be inspiring.
Because this method requires good faith on the part of the loser. Why would I, perfectly able to fight my own battles, choose to surrender because another man lost his battle?
why don't they have bake-offs, most delicious cupcake wins?
Because the French insisted on murdering their King.
there are no pacts between lion and man OP
Didn't the Japanese shoot one arrow at each other at the start of a battle and if they killed the general they won? Bows are very ceremonial because of that over there for that reason but I heard it from a mayo monkey's documentary on ancient Japan sooo...
lol that's bullshit
It happened once in the Genpei war or at least in the Tale of Heike. One dude was a really good archer and hit a guy on top of the helmet to show off, but he hot captured and they cut the tendons of his arms.
Historically kings would go to battles for this exact reason, kings were the war leaders of the country.
They’d call out other combatants on the opposite side for a 1 on 1 duel. They had to stop this when the Mongols showed up
>Historically kings would go to battles for this exact reason, kings were the war leaders of the country.
It was also to prevent some cocky general from deciding he should be King after a campaign because he is in full control of the army
Political assassinations kind of work like this. No one will believe me, since Jarhead had an extraordinarily similar scene, but my father was in Recon and got dropped in the desert with two other guys to assassinate the Ayatollah. It was called off, but no base bombing like in Jarhead.
>post number
Just so you know it's real, Race War Johnny.
If you're not meming and you actually don't know the answer to this question, you're legitimately retarded
>why aren't wars resolved this way?
Because God wants to have fun.
I was reading that Kingdom manga and there are lots of battles ended because someone slayed the enemy commander, regardless of current strategical advantage. Did it actually work that way?
Because the losing side might go back in their word.
In many cases, yes.
Think of the Battle of Hastings. William killed Harold and this effectively ended the battle.
In the american revolutionary war, american riflemen deliberately targeted british officers, in order to leave the soldiers without effective command
This hadn't really been a thing in the days of smoothbore muskets, but america having been a frontier land many men were well sharpshooters with rifled muskets
British officers are recorded as having removed all items of insignia, medals etc. before battle so as to be less identifiable as officers - imagine how big a deal that would have been for stuffy british officers of the period
>there are lots of battles ended because someone slayed the enemy commander,
Reminds me of another Canadian war crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razing_of_Friesoythe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cunaxa
the military-industryial complex has to expend the trillions of dollars worth of munitions, planes, tanks, etc etc so they can make/sell more
Gotta keep those bombers flyin'!
but with mecha
Fuck yeah, Robot Jox
The ultimate black pill point of war is to thin out the male population. powerful men send the less powerful to die, so they can more easily have pseudo harems. pic unrelated.
>why aren't wars resolved this way?
Because wars are also about profit. Incredible profits, really.
Why not a football match instead?
And if you thought of NFL football you are a mongoloid.
>And if you thought of NFL football you are a mongoloid.
NFL is the topmost league of football. AFL and CFL suck ass and ELF sucks their ass
If you think you could win the war normally why would you give up the opportunity in some deal that could go either way? If you believe your war is over a legitimate grievance, your people would be pissed you let it go because of some deal.
Even the Trojan War really didn't work that way.
There's literally parts of the Iliad where the Gods say "Everyone step aside, I want to watch these two 1 v 1 and if anyone steps in they're getting murked"
>geopolitics should be overhauled to be more like Mortal Kombat
I guess it can't be any worse than what we're already doing.
Didn't they still have the Trojan war after Brad Pitt did his cool jump-stab?
That was a different war, Paris stole Helena at the victory celebration iirc
>lose the duel
>invade with you army anyway because it's war and you don't want to lose
What now?
Although you are right it would save a lot of problems that war brings.... this day and age, we need war for population control at this point.