Topic: High-Intensity Conflict
Mordor !n9PP8q5SP. started this discussion 10 years ago #56,506
Mario H. Acevedo, a U.S. Army Combat Artist deployed to the Persian Gulf, depicts the aerial intensity of American gunships attacking Iraqi armor in the desert. Future warfare may occur in a variety of settings and intensity, ranging from the massive troop and materiel deployments of the Persian Gulf War to small peacekeeping missions. Such rapid and intense combat necessitates flexibility and innovation in the treatment and restoration of combat stress casualties.Historical reviews of psychiatric interventions in past wars allow the exploration of the implications of a range of future combat scenarios. A spectrum of combat intensities is possible, ranging from intermittent light-infantry combat (low-intensity conflict) to continuous, highly-mechanized battle (high-intensity conflict), possibly with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons. Whatever the combat intensity, the underlying stresses of dislocation from loved ones and home, the fear of the unknown, and the stresses of an unfamiliar environment will produce disorders of frustration and loneliness. Thus, higher-intensity conflict stresses will be superimposed on stresses associated with low-intensity conflicts.
While the holistic or psychosomatic approach emphasizes the unity of an organism’s response to stress, it is convenient to separate factors producing stress and breakdown in battle into physical (or physiological) and psychological (or sociopsychological) categories.
Mordor !n9PP8q5SP. (OP) double-posted this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later[^] [v] #728,516
As discussed in Chapter 2, Traditional Warfare Combat Stress Casualties, the appropriate use of the traditional principles of forward treatment has resulted in the return of about one half to two thirds (or in optimal circumstances up to nine tenths) of combat stress casualties back to combat duty within days. Forward treatment consists of immediate, brief, simple interventions such as rest and nutrition in a safe place as near the battle lines as possible, with an explicit statement to the soldier that he will soon be rejoining his comrades. This approach to treatment also calls for soldiers evacuated rearward to be screened at a central collecting point from which they may still be returned to duty if further rearward movement is inappropriate.(Edited 3 minutes later.)
Mordor !n9PP8q5SP. (OP) triple-posted this 10 years ago, 20 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #728,521
rest and nutrition in a safe place(Edited 18 seconds later.)