“According to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., a platoon of 17 soldiers refused to go on a fuel supply mission Wednesday because their vehicles were in poor shape and they did not have a capable armed escort.” (New York Times) As the military remains bogged down in an increasingly pointless and dangerous morass, I expect we will see increasing insubordination of this sort. It will be interesting to see whether, in an army made up entirely of enlistees, we will even begin to see ‘fragging’ of officers by those under their command as we saw in Vietnam among largely involuntary conscripts. At first blush, conscripts feel more desperately trapped in their pointless mission — and do more desperate things in response — than those who, having volunteered, have a motivation to continue to believe in what they are doing. The outrageousness of the Iraqi occupation in the eyes of those on the ground may, however, make it difficult for them to maintain such self-deception.