Swearing to the death not to be a French soldier

During the war in Afghanistan, a well-equipped and experienced French special operations squad was ordered to go to the mountains of Palestine to rescue a French war correspondent who was hijacked by the Taliban. During the firefight, the satellite positioning communication equipment was broken and the contact with the headquarters base was lost. The squad decided to walk through the Hindu Kush Mountain, known as the Valley of Death, to return to the military base in Afghanistan. In the magnificent mountainous area, the special forces squad paid a heavy price during the siege and interception by the Taliban and finally came out of the siege. Female reporter Successfully rescued, this is the story told by the French film "Special Forces 2011".
Since the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, France has been the country with the largest number of coalition forces outside the United States. This behavior of the Sarkozy government has always been questioned by various forces in the country, and the call for withdrawal of troops has never stopped. This film came into being under this background. The so-called justice and humanitarianism of war through films have always been a method commonly used in Western countries. It's just that after watching this movie, it was really speechless, and it was really panic if not to say it.
Let's not discuss the justice of this war. Since it is a war, there is no justice and injustice, only success and failure for one of the local battles, which is the battle to rescue the hostages shown in the film. For politicians, rescuing hostages is the first thing, and soldiers can be sacrificed. This is a soldier, especially the special forces soldier, everyone knows very well. The quarrel in the film about whether it is worth saving one person and sacrificing so many people shouldn't appear at all. For soldiers, completing the task is the first priority, and successfully rescuing the hostages and returning safely is your fundamental task. But you see the soldiers of the special forces in the film: there is no pre-war deployment, no terrain research, no plan B, and no second and third assembly locations and times. With complete night vision equipment, they have to launch an offensive in broad daylight. Special operations forces ignore their own advantages and compete for positions with Taliban armed forces familiar with the terrain like ordinary combat forces. Revel with the residents in the village without setting up guards. During street fighting, you don’t find bunkers and do not occupy favorable terrain. You just know that you can shoot straight forward and shoot forward. Think of it as playing CS. The mountain march always walks on the bare ridge, do you bully the Taliban without a sniper? A few people gathered in the snow to warm the wounded. You should find a place leeward. The wide-angle and long-lens shots of the snow in the mountains are really magnificent, but you can't violate common sense just because of the convenience of shooting. A special warfare squad was lost in this way. In the end, the female reporter found her teammates from memory and with the naked eye. You, a fleet commander with huge resources, would not be able to find it.
It is basically certain that the director does not have a little knowledge of special operations, and the French military estimated that for the sake of confidentiality and security, they did not give the film basic military instructions. It is said that this is based on real events. I think the French people will never let their children join the army anymore after watching this kind of film. This is a special warfare, it's just to die. Anyway, if I were the French, I would not be a French soldier.

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