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Using Anxiety to Avoid Depression: Part Two

When we left off, it was with Donovan Campbell, in Joker One, trying to establish measures to deal with the stress faced by 150 Marines trying to gain control over an Iraqi city of 350,000. As a refresher, he was trying to act as a calm leader. As he phrases it: “Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone’s …

July 29, 2009 – 9:18 am | By Mike | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Of PTSD, Purple Hearts and the Pentagon’s Shame

It seems clear that one of the goals of warfare is to render your opponent’s warriors incapable of fighting. If that’s not one of the goals, then why would you try to kill their soldiers? Therefore, inflicting enough psychological damage to keep them off the battlefield would logically seem to be a weapon of choice. …

January 10, 2009 – 6:59 pm | By Mike | Posted in Post traumatic stress disorder, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)