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[Husar]

Interesting articles, Husar...

Would someone explain men what's the difference, if any, between sexual assault and rape?

I think sexual assault covers more, like touching them in the wrong places while rape actually means forcing them to have sex with you.

Most soldiers fall into the 18–24 range, at which point in time a healthy male is absolutely flooded with hormones. Not as bad as sixteen, but bad enough.

That may be right but soldiers also get extensive training to do their job, they are supposed to be able to restrain themselves, maybe this worked back when people were conquered with fear but this is the 21st century and these guys are supposed to spread freedom and democracy. If they rape their own comrades, then how do they treat the local populace?

Of course you were right about the problem having to do a lot with the leadership, as the article says this doesn't really happen if the officers in charge do not allow it, unfortunately many apparently do allow it and the army in general seems to try to hide it as well.

About the generational thing I'm not sure, if the current officers are keeping the younglings down sometimes then that would just mean a lot of the younglings would rape if they were allowed so if they became officers it's likely that they would allow it.