Buddy I was literally taught that in my (British) English class, and later seen it used in this context by natives countless times. If anything, using "he/she" is an ugly unpronounceable abomination.
Honestly unless you insist on allowing running your software on Windows you're much better off delegating the logging to syslog over a thin wrapper. It can handle about anything except most exotic cases. This however goes against Java land portability promises and its NIH attitude so we have what we have.
Imagine you're trying to prove that water is wet (P!=NP). You lack a formalism that could make sense at building a proof even though pretty much everyone agrees from empirical evidence that the water is indeed wet. A promising attempt at building one such formalism was just demonstrated by a model to be a dead end.
The very reason Trump and his drill sergeant in Pentagon refuse to commit boots on the ground is even they realize how it's going to be. ISR footage of American servicemen dying with no chance of rescue would be bad for ratings.
Over someone who never fired any real weapon? Probably. You are not startled by violent sounds. You have intuition for ballistics, time to target, CEP, weather effects.
Maybe Russia should have tried that on NATO if that's where it's beef is, rather than attacking a neutral third country. But Russia is a weak bully and weak bullies seek for weaker victims (and have weak, cowardly sympathizers).