The armed forces, if you believed video games or those overblown recruitment commercials you’d think war was like some sort of gung-ho game full of space marines and clearly defined groups of good and evil.

As it stands, war is full of difficult decision making under the most intense stress where your enemy is hard to define and the horror of it all is nothing like a macho adrenaline rush. And if you’re in the Scandinavian countries you have to train in snow. Where’s the fun in that?