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Explanation: Roman legionaries often were enthusiastic about going on campaign - campaigns meant plunder and opportunity to prove one's valor and advance in the ranks! Only... some campaign destinations are more desirable than others.
Hispania, for some 300 years, was a bloody ulcer in Rome's side. Rome exercised control over it, but only loosely, with Hispanian guerillas subjecting Roman troops to constant attrition, little glory, and, perhaps worst of all, no clear enemy to loot and enslave. How terrible! Yet all the same, Roman armies were (begrudgingly) sent into Hispania again and again and again to subdue it, each time emerging with little progress to show for it.
'The Sandbox' is a somewhat-bitter term used by many modern American veterans to refer to deployment to the Middle East in the Forever Wars that so characterized the 'War On Terror', wherein soldiers often felt they were doing nothing related to their job as they imagined it, to an enemy who hadn't wronged us, for no good reason, in a fucking miserable environment.
@damonsterknees@lemmy.world thought you might feel some sympathy pangs for these poor bastards about to make a shitty deployment because the higher-ups have some bizarre ambitions stuck in their head