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To a greater or lesser extent, a soldier facing impending combat will have anticipated subjection to some or all of the stresses of combat: danger, hunger, thirst, fatigue, uncertainty, and so on. Many soldiers have admitted to curiosity about how they would adapt to such stresses. When it came, however, combat often differed appreciably from what had been expected and thus created dissonance between the preconception and the reality.
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By the same token, unsuccessful patrol operations in an otherwise relatively static campaign can have a detrimental effect. After three months of strenuous campaigning, the Algonquin Regiment spent November and December 1944 on the River Maas. While it fought no major actions in this period, it undertook a number of patrols, the results of which were disappointing, and morale suffered accordingly (Cassidy 1980, pp. 257–58).
Doctor A. E. Moll 1980; personal communication.
In a period of one week in mid-August 1944, Canadian troops involved in “Operation Totalize” in Normandy were twice inadvertently bombed by Allied planes, and the rate of psychiatric casualties more than doubled (Doctor A. E. Moll 1980; personal communication).
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Kellett, A. (1982). Aspects of Combat. In: Combat Motivation. International Series in Management Science/Operations Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3965-4_15
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