There was a mirror image for Afghanistan too, with the 2001 invasion of the country, seemingly not unearthing many cases , yet this soon rose again with conflicts with the Taliban.”
It is widely known that the hand to hand fighting, and close quarter battles in both Iraq and Afghanistan saw many dirty tactics from the enemy, including the use of children to cause casualties to allied forces and in effect, everyone in the conflict region became a threat, this as we know with many cases of PTSD has been carried back into society. Dr Neal points out though, other wars have proven to create other effects on serving personnel.