Combating Stress Field manuals, psychological tests, yoga. Here's how the army is fighting stress, a killer of morale and men.

India Today | June 11, 2007| | Copyright

Stress, the Indian Army's new killer, has been taking a silent toll. Over 100 soldiers have killed themselves each year in the past four years, more than those killed in counter-insurgency (CI) operations. Last year, for instance, 128 soldiers committed suicide and 32 were killed by colleagues running amok, while only 70 were killed in CI operations.

The army is now shooting stress with a raft of hard and soft measures. In the past three months, two soldiers have been given the death penalty for killing their senior officers. The army has introduced several soft measures like yoga lessons and ...

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