The State of Being of the Soldier:
"MASCULINITY" Disguising Abject Submission

The State of Being of the soldier:
Offering Oneself to be SlainItalian dead The bodies of Italian soldiers dead on the battlefield—victims of a gas and flame attack during World War I.

Warfare is often understood as "male aggression" to disguise the abject state of the being of the soldier: a way of thinking representing a massive counter-phobic defense against the truth--and reality.

The sound and fury, uniforms, salutes, bullets and bombs--disguise the pathetic state of affairs: Abject submission disguised as "masculinity." The soldier as sacrificial victim.