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I read somewhere that only about 25% of soldiers actually aim to kill someone in war, the rest just shoot pretty much randomly. It also said the US army did some special training to raise that percentage, but that also allegedly caused a significant raise in cases of PTSD. Is this true?

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What would’ve happened if the Nazis had managed to destroy all the bridges across the Rhine before the Allies crossed them during WW2? Would the progression of the Allied forces have been postponed enough for the Nazis to invent their atomic bomb and potentially destroy all of Europe in a

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I read somewhere that only about 25% of soldiers actually aim to kill someone in war, the rest just shoot pretty much randomly. It also said the US army did some special training to raise that percentage, but that also allegedly caused a significant raise in cases of PTSD. Is this true?	5842
What would’ve happened if the Nazis had managed to destroy all the bridges across the Rhine before the Allies crossed them during WW2? Would the progression of the Allied forces have been postponed enough for the Nazis to invent their atomic bomb and potentially destroy all of Europe in a	1