Paul Fussell Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: March 22, 1924 - May 23, 2012
Birthday: March 22
Death: May 23
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
source: "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998. 
topic: Strong, Military, Discipline, Sadism, Ordinances, Military Life
