Recent content by A.K.

One could say that drill is a form of indirect psychological training. Although I agree with the whole aspect of one inteligent person telling an organised mass of soldiers what to do, what if the highest in command is killed? Who takes over? Is there a hierarchy of command? (on the battlefield)

True. A bit more detail would make suggestions easier to give.

One would think that more soldiers would fire at the enemy in a war..... Nowadays, you get to see many more trigger-happy action movies, and that may have indirectly influenced the improvement of this statistic, although as you said, Canada might have taken action on this.

Thanks. But do they have any kind of positive speeches or calming techniques that are given to recruits?

Do recruits get any psychological training (ie. constant reinforcement of the 'Kill-or-be killed' idea, etcetera) during their basic training? Obviously you wouldn't want a soldier to break down out on the front lines....