During and after the Vietnam War the US Army carried out a number of behavioural studies of soldiers in combat situations. These studies have ranged from investigating the behaviour of troops in actual combat, to controlled experiments where ''guinea pigs" are placed in "near combat" conditions to compare their actions with controls. A number of conclusions have been drawn from this work, some of which are not obvious. They show just how ineffective the average soldier can be and how totally untrue the Hollywood image of supermen who advance without fear and hit every target actually is. At a serious level these studies have influenced low level organisation of Western armies, most notably dividing rifle sections into fire teams. They also provide raw material for writers of small action wargame rules.
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