The Post does a real service here: is combat stress an issue, do the troops need psychological care, even preemptive care to make sure that problems don't develop?
Yes.
Do the very experts designing those programs believe that combat stress can result in soldiers "snapping" and engaging in the unjustified killing of civilians?
No.
They believe something like that (if that is indeed what happened, for example, at Haditha) results not from traumatic psychological stress but from poor leadership at the unit level.
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