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I question how much of the WWI/WWII research is applicable to modern warfare/combat. The demographics of the armies(volunteers vs conscripts), training methods, professionalization, support networks and resources availible to soldiers today are vastly different. The type of conflict is also very different. Is there any research on the mental health issues facing, say, 19th Century British and French colonial armies? I don't know, but it seems to be that those(basically volunteer armies, often from lower class backgrounds, fighting a low tech enemy with ambivalent opinions on the home front) would be more applicable to our situation today than stats collected from Verdun or Stalingrad.