Why do they surrender?

I don't think anyone on this forum, bar a few, will understand the mentality of a man in a warzone. Humans don't think or act rationally in life or death situations. It's easy to say you should fight but your life tends to become very precious if you think you are about to lose it.

but these soldiers know what the end result will be if they surrender, from the past 3 years they have seen how these terrorists deal with prisoners, from shooting multiple times in the head, to beheading on camera with a blunt knife, so why would you surrender, you are better of saving last bullet for urself

People delude themselves, some people will do anything to stay alive a bit longer or hope that something will change. Rescue mission or something. It's really not a simple set of emotions or thought processes that someone in that situation goes through, try to have some sympathy

no, they are soldiers trained to deal with this, at tabqa base in raqqa province and your not prepared for ISIS to come knocking on your doorstep, jheeze can these guys be so dumb, i rate one soldier though at least he tried to shoot back

Mad gangsta would you pop them all off?

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people surrender. pakistans army of 100,000 surrendered in the 1970s. the british surrenders singapore to the japanese in wwii. germans surrendered in stalingrad

you should see the video man, crazy terrorist wahabi barbaric animals

I don't think anyone on this forum, bar a few, will understand the mentality of a man in a warzone. Humans don't think or act rationally in life or death situations. It's easy to say you should fight but your life tends to become very precious if you think you are about to lose it.

The thing is, they were all sat in their base and then when the ISIS came one guy said they all changed into civies and ran off. Why not just fight them off like a siege? Even if it was like the Alamo. Just camp in your base. How many were storming it again? Serious just don't let them in. I don't think military bases are designed so that if a force approaches, all their base belongs to them, there should be a way of keeping them out.

I know I have no experience in war or have been prepared for kill or be killed, but this is what I'd do. That said, they were promised they would be taken to their families, so they complied/submitted and then were all executed.

people surrender to other people, you have to be mad to surrender to a barbaric animal

Yeah they all get one bullet to the head, pretty messed up. And the drive by one is even more chilling.

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I remember watching something about the Battle of The Tennis Court (sounds fun but was actually pretty brutal) in World War Two and how allied soldiers stated that surrender to the Japanese never once entered their minds because they knew if they surrendered their treatment would be inhumane to put it mildly and because they respected the Japanese soldiers as enemies. Surely if you knew you are going to die if you surrender then you would do anything to avoid being captured? ISIS are like the Japanese military in a way (in the sense that they have so far demolished the opposition completely). It took Orde Wingate who was actually mentally ill to give the Japanese their first defeat (not counting the border skirmish between Japan and Soviet Russia when Zhukov defeated the Japanese army). Who knows what it will take to defeat IS?

dont forget neither of these on either side are heroic soldiers, they are poorly educated , badly trained men given rifles. when one side gets a bit scared he would either blow himslef up or give himself up. id doubt either wants to be a war hero battlign it out like general custer in his last stand.

also i dont know but perhas isis actually capture and convert a lot of opponenets to fight for their side?

But then look at the countless Germans who surrendered to the Soviets or the Allied troops that did surrender to the Japanese because plenty did.

Like I said in my first post I don't think anyone here can understand what it is like to be in a completely hopeless situation. Many of these troops were badly armed, poorly lead and badly demoralised its a wonder they made it to the fight at all.

I'm sure we'd all like to imagine we would grab a gun and die in a glorious hail of bullets, taking down countless terrorists but until you are there you will not know how you will react.

lmfao. no mate, i would rather put bullet in my head then surrender to ISIS and be get beheaded on camera with a blunt butter knife