i understand the idea "guardians of the peace in the republic". but the clone army was massive and mighty enough to handle alot without them. instead, the jedi chose to send all of their people, including the inexperienced, to die or get their brand new PTSD. what did they try to achieve ? if they want to fight, at least let the experienced ones who want to fight. instead of conscripting your own people to war they arent needed in.
I thought as an acting force to protect the Republic was a fair reason as they had a duty regardless of their peacekeeping nature to be involved somehow.
It wasn't their choice, Palpatine enlisted them and they dutifully accepted the role. George Lucas: Having already been granted emergency powers in the face of the growing threat, Chancellor Palpatine used his ironclad grip on the Senate to seize even greater authority, all in the name of security. To address the urgent military needs of the Republic, he enlisted the Jedi Knights as generals to command the Clone Army. Shatterpoint prologue 2004 George Lucas: As the situation develops, they are recruited into the army, and they become generals. They're not generals. They don't kill people. They don't fight. They're supposed to be ambassadors. There are a lot of Jedi that think that the Jedi sold out, that they should have never have been in the army, but... Paul Duncan: Do you think that? George Lucas: It's a tough call. It's one of those conundrums, of which there's a bunch of in my movies. You have to think it through. Are they going to stick by their moral rules and all be killed, which makes it irrelevant, or do they help save the Republic? They have good intentions, but they have been manipulated, which was their downfall. The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III 1999-2005 And I dont know if one can completely say they weren't needed. In the series you'll see many examples of battles that wouldn't have been won without a Jedi present. And in RotS, I don't know if Grievous could've been killed or Palpatine rescued and Dooku killed without Jedi. They certainly agreed that they could help end the war as soon as possible. It's also safe to presume Palpatine would've engineered things so that it would be bad enough for the Jedi to need to be involved, had they declined. Or accused them of abandoning the Republic in it's time of crisis, etc.
didnt know all that. interesting. strategists always build the military around their resources. the jedi is a living-resource. if they werent there, the battles would be different, but still won. i cant be 100% sure about this, but i dont think the jedi were the needle movers, the clones and cloners was.
The republic navy and army seems to get on fine without them after the Jedi purge. The attitude of the imperial generals is what good did the Force do them when they were all killed.
Seems a bit easy to say that when someone happened to press a giant “off” button on their largest competitors army at the exact same time.
They were serving a corrupt Republic that really did need to die off and start over. Not as an Empire but as a New Republic. This was not the job of the Jedi as I blame the Senate committee members not stepping up. Out of hundreds of senators, how many do you have willing to make change? Mothma, Organa, Amidala,... This is why it took so darn long for the Rebellion to start. The Jedi are also to be blamed for following the non action, greedy senators into their own funeral.
