[hinckley buzzard]

A significant percentage of PTSD is a result of what has been recognized as perpetrator trauma. An early and thorough study of the disorder in VN vets found that one of the greatest risk factors was what they called "abusive violence." This did not have to mean war crimes or atrocities, but it sometimes did.

No one knows how they will react in a combat environment until they get there, and many vets found themselves doing things that they couldn't live with later. I assume this article is well meaning but I don't think it adds much of value to the discussion.

[FourPeas]

Sounds like the experience my father-in-law had in WWII.

[Mariner]

"A significant percentage of PTSD is a result of what has been recognized as perpetrator trauma."

I am a PTSD vet who does a group thing with other PTSD vets...and I have never heard of "Perpetrator trauma" as a cause of PTSD. It's always about fear and lack of control over your living or dying.

Not saying the guilt of going too far doesn't have a dire effect, just that I don't think it's properly classified as PTSD.