And what about the ethics of employing a military force that, increasingly, never has to see blood or experience mortal fear?

There has been no instant of mortal fear.

She was wary of the hairdryer and had developed a mortal fear of hand dryers in public loos.

We do not live in mortal fear of the elements, as they do across much of the planet.

To move fearless in war, cradled in a sense of destiny, would be to become an almost celestial entity, surfing terrible reefs unshackled by mortal fear.