It's certainly topical. In the new era of the professional all-volunteer American military, soldiers killed and physically wounded have gone way down - but cases of war-related PTSD have gone way up.
If you count PTSD as a regular war wound, the wound count is up there with the counts in the conscript days.
Something's really wrong here.
War and PTSD have always gone hand in hand. I think we are seeing a large increase in cases of war-related PTSD numbers now because we are finally realizing how to diagnose it.
That could be...or it could be caused by the military being misused, in a "use a hammer as a screwdriver" way. I've read a lot of complaints about too-restrictive ROEs.
The restrictive ROE could also be one reason why wars drag out for so long. But I think that is a discussion for another day.