DZ Season 064 Part 67. End the War in 44 – The American Way of War – What the Americans Had to Say – Beyond the Limits of Individual Human Endurance – The Battlewise Infantryman.
… the small number of divisions - 89 in all — and the policy of keeping them continually up to strength by a steady stream of replacements made unit rotation both impossible and unnecessary. For units operating in the Pacific, the effect of this was mitigated by the pauses between the island-hopping campaigns; in the Mediterranean, France and, above all, in Italy, it meant that the same men had to face combat for day after day, week after week, until, in the words of the army's chief psychiatrist, they either became casualties, deserted, or went beserk.
Martin Creveld wrote in his book…
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