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

WWI

People are pussies now

Vietnam was pretty bad, sneaky asians hiding in tunnels, randomly killing you, had to suck

Civil War or World War II in my non-expert opinion based on the era and how the wars were fought.

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WW1 and it isn't even close.

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More so than WW2 in the pacific?

WWI I'd think but I guess it depends on just exactly where you were.

Pre-gunpowder battles with hand to hand combat. might be pretty traumatizing

WWI.. birth of modern warfare without modern medicine

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More so than WW2 in the pacific?

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Yes. the WWII PTO was bad but trench warfare was really bad.

The one that instills the constant fear of death. My guess would be Vietnam.

Not say this is the answer but there was a really interesting piece on just how brutal the Korean War was.

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On a per-capita basis, the Korean War was one of the deadliest wars in modern history, especially for the civilian population of North Korea. The scale of the devastation shocked and disgusted the American military personnel who witnessed it, including some who had fought in the most horrific battles of World War II.

World War II was by far the bloodiest war in history. Estimates of the death toll range from 60 million to more than 85 million, with some suggesting that the number is actually even higher and that 50 million civilians may have perished in China alone. Even the lower estimates would account for roughly three percent of the world’s estimated population of 2.3 billion in 1940.

These are staggering numbers, and the death rate during the Korean War was comparable to what occurred in the hardest hit countries of World War II.

In fact, by the end of the war, the United States and its allies had dropped more bombs on the Korean Peninsula, the overwhelming majority of them on North Korea, than they had in the entire Pacific Theater of World War II.

“The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war’s end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. The majority of those killed were in the North, which had half of the population of the South; although the DPRK does not have official figures, possibly twelve to fifteen percent of the population was killed in the war, a figure close to or surpassing the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II.”

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PTSD is caused by combat action, so, the war that caused the most PTSD is the one in which US military personnel spent the most days in combat. From what I understand, that war is the Vietnam War. US ground combat personnel in Vietnam saw more days in combat in one year than did most US ground combat personnel during the whole of WW2.