General Sir Richard Sherriff tells Sky News that even if Russia is defeated in the war against Ukraine, it is going to remain determined to rebuild another empire, subjugate Ukraine, and then move on to other ex-Soviet countries, like NATO members. That could mean war with Russia.
I learned to my surprise in WWI the officers had some of the highest casualty rates. I struggled a bit to find the reference just now, but here is something along those lines:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/first-world-war-roll-call-senior-officers-killed-ranks
I don’t know about now, but at least at one point in the British imperial past the upper classes shed blood with the poors.
Yeah, I guarantee 500% that this is one of the many things that were different over a century ago than they are now.