From TheBestLinks.com
"Cannon Fodder" is an expression used to denote the treatment of armed forces as a worthless commodity to be expended. Fodder is food for livestock - the livestock in this case being cannons, the food being the soldiers sent against them.
It generally refers to situations where men are forced to fight against hopeless odds, as in the First World War trenches.
The PC video game Cannon Fodder further made light of the expression by portraying the deaths of the animated soldiers in the game humorously, and allowing the player to quickly replace lost soldiers with new ones.
Related links
Top visited
0 of
0 links
[no links posted yet]
>> place link >>
Discussion
Last posted
0 of
0 messages
[no messages posted yet]
>> post message >>
Watch
You can
add this article to your own "watchlist" and receive e-mail notification about all changes in this page.
