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.
Paul FussellTags: petty-mind-mocks chickenshit letter-of-law military-philosophy
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
Stephen E. AmbroseTags: small-mindedness petty chickenshit
Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
Paul FussellTags: war military pettiness chickenshit
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