how long can you keep a man in combat before he starts becoming ineffective due to MENTAL factors? does it even happen? if yes what happens?
how long can you keep a man in combat before he starts becoming ineffective due to MENTAL factors? does it even happen? if yes what happens?
Hi Mr. Gerasimov
The infographic you posted answers your question you fricking moron
According to your made up chart without a source or even proper axes, about 28 days or a month.
Afterwards, he basically becomes a suicidal altruistic cuck if he still has humanity or a carefree homicidal cannibal if he has no humanity left.
War is hell.
>made up chart without a source or even proper axes
homosexual its a pic from a us field manual and i posted it just because i need an image to make a post and this one was fitting
see above
>soldier becomes saiyan after 60 days in combat
one would think that the infantryman would be of greatest combat efficiency at that point
>Vegeta
>efficient at anything besides jobbing
>Soldier becomes Vegeta
>AIIIIEEEEEE
twitter threads attract people like flies and an actual k one is ignored
During ww2 it was observed that in the italian campaign, US soldiers could operate around 250-300 before being SPENT (Combat ineffective)
and what happens after
is the performance constant or does it degrade over time
how did they take these measurements
It is fluctual, influenced by state of supplies etc. But after 300 days the soldier NEEDED rest because he wasn't capable to operate.
Degrading performance over time.
ive never been in a war so idont understand, what does it mean you are tired of being there, imean mentally, lets say physically you get some rest and food periods where your unit is swapped with another one
Continuous stress and alertness (even if there are periods of "rest" in between) is not good for anyone. Compare it to running an engine at 100% power for weeks on end. Stuff breaks down.
>how did they take these measurements
1 soldier is unmeasurable and unpredictable, 100k soldiers are a statistical certainty. All you need is logs of unit composition (ratio of fresh/old) and effectiveness over time. Given large enough numbers, random noise gets filtered out.
>what happens after
Look at Kampfgroup Piper, they were killing friendly civilians along with surrendered GIs, they could not be "debrutalized" after leaving the Eastern front.
When guys like that go home, they would beat the cows black and blue or choke out somebody after a fender bender.
>they were killing friendly civilians along with surrendered GIs
>source: storytime with schlomo
Then you have the japanese, whose soldiers would operate for years with very little supplies and with regular abuse as the only morale booster.
Yeah. Like those several asiatics who operated inna-jungle for 10-30 years post war uncontacted.
>operate
as in combat or as generally away from home?
In combat environments, sorry the book didn't specify what is a combat environment.
You can apply this to most jobs over a longer time frame.
>circle k clerk
>cannibalistic after 20+ days
Situational awareness heightened.
What sort of conflict intensity is this graph describing?