How war has influenced ancient, classical and medieval societies

[HoreTore]

The preliminary screening at sesjon(no idea how to translate) catches the most obvious ones, ie. everyone with a history of mental illness. You also need to talk to a shrink there, which weeds out some more.

The recruit period(the first month or so), catches most of the remaining. IIRC, my squad lost 3 out of 20 or so, with at least one of them sent home for being a nutcase(the other was a pacifist, and I can't remember the last one).

To summarize, if you're going to compare anything, you would need to exclude everyone with a history of mental illness prior to age 18 from the control group. When that's done, the result is at least high enough to get the brass' attention, seeing as how mental illness after serving is actually taken seriously now.

....And the risk of suicides is the reason my service rifle in the home guard doesn't have a firing pin.



As for the comment on lousiness, well, I think that's a little too pathetic to comment on.