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The Mind at War: Understanding Combat Psychology in the 21st Century offers a gripping and timely exploration of how modern warfare is reshaping the psychological battlefield. As drone warfare and cyberwarfare replace traditional boots-on-the-ground conflict, today's soldiers face unprecedented mental and emotional demands - not on distant frontlines, but in isolated control rooms, behind glowing monitors, or through artificial intelligence-assisted decisions. This book takes readers inside the hidden world of military minds operating in high-stakes digital environments, where cognitive overload, information saturation, and decision fatigue are daily realities. Through the lens of simulation training, situational awareness, and human-machine interaction, it exposes the invisible toll of war waged at a distance, where moral clarity often blurs and ethical dilemmas cut deep. How does one maintain mental and emotional resilience when ordered to take a life with the click of a button? What happens to the psyche when trauma accumulates in silence, outside the blast radius but within the soul? What does burnout look like when soldiers never step foot on a battlefield - yet carry its weight every day? Written for military professionals, psychologists, strategists, and anyone seeking to understand the future of conflict, The Mind at War goes beyond theory to reveal the intense psychological conditioning required to survive this new era. It challenges traditional notions of combat and leadership, shedding light on what it truly means to command, cope, and endure in an era of modern warfare. This is not a book about war as we once knew it. This is a book about the war within - and the fight to stay human in the age of machines.

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