Prolonged suspended threat erodes soldiers’ sense of purpose and duty

Evidence

What they had left behind, what they were supposed to protect, no longer mattered very much: the lines were cut; in this darkness full of forebodings all raisons d’être had lost their hold. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 307

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 307
• XREF: connects to: Between 1914 and 1939 soldiers’ relation to home and return changed fundamentally — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 210; Prolonged wartime quiet feels like hunger presaging violence, not true peace — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 228; Being bypassed by a distant battle can produce a false sense of security — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 421 (+5 more)

Library Connections

• Living under looming war requires adapting psychologically to permanent low-grade dread #corroborates (0.85) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 138

Broader Connections

• Purpose-driven conflict can be substituted but feeling-driven conflict cannot #qualifies (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 298