The Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs are also supporting several new studies into potential links between deployment and dangerously aggressive or overly defensive driving.
(So far, almost all the new war literature comes from Iraq, perhaps because there weren't many troops in Afghanistan until 2009, and the minimum lag time between deployment and publication seems to be around five years).
The driving problems of returning troops have become widespread enough that the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs are supporting studies of potential links between deployment and dangerously aggressive or overly defensive driving.
But the authors say recent research suggests that there may indeed be an association between deployment and suicide, including data showing that people with traumatic brain injury are 1.5 times more likely to die from suicide than those without it.
In a review of the long-term health impact of military service, the House of Commons Defence Committee said that the Ministry of Defence must do more to understand "the links between deployment, alcohol misuse and violent behaviour, especially domestic violence".
As the massive deployment of premature renewable energy technologies risks becoming very expensive, the debate on the optimal trajectory of renewable technologies should explicitly consider the balance between deployment incentives and R&D efforts.
