re: Which War Would Result In The Most Severe PTSD For Soldiers?

WW1. Easily. Modernization of the battlefield, trench warfare, and chemical weapons.

I will say this, though..

All the wars except for Vietnam and the GWOT you had a defined enemy, and thusly a defined front and safe zone.

Vietnam and GWOT you are fighting an asymmetrical warfare, where the guy selling knock off watches by day is building bombs by night. Not knowing who the enemy is has to be a tremendous burden, one that our professionals in the armed forces deal with admirably.

I don't know how I'd react if every dude was giving me the stink eye whilst I was on a patrol. The amount of self control those guys used/use is amazing to me.

Pacific WWII beach landings. Not sure how you could come out of that mentality healthy.

Just finished reading it. I can't imagine storming a beach or sitting there after you survive waiting on a banzai charge.

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WWI

This was the first war in which men were under the pressure of battle for days at a time with noe relief or relaxation.

The generals were using 100 year old tactics to fight modern machinery that had become exponentially more deadly such as machine guns and artillery that was ever increasing sophistication and lethality. Not to mention the lack of supplies due to automobiles not being in full force yet and horses not being able to maintain the supply properly.

WWI is probably the correct answer here

Its gotta be WW1 followed by Civil War followed by WW2

Every war is traumatic. When a human kills another human or witnesses the killing of one, it messes with their brain. Only desensitized/sick people can get away with not having any negative feelings or trauma because of it.

That being said, The Great War was the most traumatizing when looking at all wars in a relative way. Soldiers of that era were not prepared for the heavily industrialized way it was fought. The massed introduction of very lethal artillery, poisonous gasses, flamethrowers, machine guns, etc changed everything.

ETA: From there, we'd have to look at the next radical change in the wars were fought and that has to be with guerilla tactics. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq were/have been very traumatizing due to the way the enemy operated unseen by being in plain sight.

Also "at times" was all the time during the battles you mentioned.

You checked out wrath of the khans?