Engineering Humans For War

Annie Jacobsen, The Atlantic: Technology
Wed, 09/23/2015 - 6:39am

Retired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the “weakling of the battlefield” from reading S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army combat historian during World War II. After interviewing soldiers who participated in the Normandy beach landings, Marshall had learned that fatigue was responsible for an overwhelming number of casualties.

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