If he had such dread about deploying, could he not have just resigned his commission?
Also, as a Major, and a psychiatrist at that, it’s highly unlikely that, if deployed, he would be anywhere near combat. He’d be doing the same thing he was in the US. You don’t kill your comrades out of fear of deploying with them...you kill them because they weren’t really your comrades and you wanted to murder them.
The article almost makes it sounds like his having heard the stories of soldiers with mental scars from deployment had caused him some sort of emotional trouble. PTSD doesn’t work like that...you don’t get it out of sympathy. Also, as a psychiatrist, he would be well-practiced in not taking on his patients’ emotional issues as his own.
I have to wonder...this man was a psychiatrist counseling our soldiers who may have had difficulty adjusting to some of the more grisly aspects of warfare, but was clearly squarely on the side of his patients’ enemies. I think it would be worthwhile to inspect just what were the outcomes of the soldiers placed under his care. Since the soldiers who saw him were actually his enemies, he would have no interest in helping them adjust to the realities of war, and it would be quite easy to conduct some psychological warfare on a person in a frayed mental state.
Theory: Psychiatrist counsels soldiers who speak of muslums as low-lives and also who ridicule Islam. Psychiatrist does not gain converts but only dirision. Psychiatrist does drugs while losing his sanity. Something/someone sets psychiatrist off.
I can't help but think of Hannibal Lecter.