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

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World War One was such a horrific experience that it still haunts us, even now. It is almost like modern society's suppressed bad memory of its collective youth. People don't think about it much, but its impact colors everything.

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It's more accurate to say that Americans don't think about it much.

It still weighs very heavily in the British, German, and (especially) French conscience. The French were arguably the greatest land military power the world had ever seen up to that point in history. They lost about 4% KIA and another 10% WIA of their country - and about 30% of an entire generation of men - in four years. Probably more than anyone else (besides, arguably, the Germans), they took the blow of the Great War.

You better damn believe that it radically altered the French world view thereon.