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Yes it does, and sometimes with great detail, and it’s not as hand-wavy as some might think. And guess what? The Imperium is noted for not doing a very good job at it, usually because it is so massive.In the novel, Fifteen Hours, there was a minor miscalculation that was shown early in the book in a log, probably for calculating distances and locations. The single, final number, which could only be a 0 or a 1, was briefly thought to be off. The scribe working on it figured, eh, his job was pointless moving meaningless numbers anyway, why did it matter?Come to find out, it was responsible for massive, massive logistical errors. Men from an Agri-world were rounded up to join the Imperial Guard (erhemrhm, Astra Militarum for you newbies), most of their training of a handful of weeks done on ships. They couldn’t afford to use real grenades or any real structures, so they put tape on the ground and threw fruit to simulate room clearing a structure. They were preparing to fight a human rebellion.When they arrived at a planet that was supposed to be analogous to their own, they were instead dumped on a brutalized, industrialized planet infested with Orks. The main character is the only one to survive of the hundreds of men he was with. He was told that occasionally men from strange planets and equipment would show up and that was their only set of reinforcements, nothing what they requested.When resupply ships came (many drop ships damaged in the attempt to deliver), they got useless things like bug spray, mosquito netting, stuff for fighting in a swampy, wetland area.-When the Imperium attempted to conduct a war against the Tau during the Taros Campaign, less than 50% of what was requested could be mustered for the invasion force, and it took an entire year to get that to the planet. In a war against other sci-fi factions in other franchises, the Imperium would have the lowest logistical score. The Tau actually take advantage of the logistical problems because their empire is so more tightly knit and self-sustaining, and on the ground, they know the Imperium will isolate forces trying to reach supplies, and they’ll set up ambushes appropriately.On further, the lack of food and need for strict rations, which sometimes starves people, is the reason the hive world of Mordia is so prone to riots and rebellions.-But how does the Imperium do it, even if not very well?For starters, 40k Imperial shipping.Everyone knows 40k ships are ungodly huge. The crew to most ships are born there, never move more than a few hundred meters around where they live in such cramped conditions, and also die there. They never see a planet. Over 95% of crews are given very specific tasks that often span entire generations doing the same task.Ships of such size are able to be self-sufficient on journeys, and as I stated, sometimes the Imperial Guard regiments raised are given their training on the way to their designated war zone entirely on the ship itself.This also translates to shipping capacity as well. A single ship can bring in enough food to feed a million people for a few years.Not just that, but the ships have their own self-contained “ecosystems” of sorts they can use to recycle things to produce food and energy. Captains and their highest-ranking officers have their own gardens and access to fresh meat products..Food ain’t great for most, everything can be compact, technology, exotic alien stuff.The Imperium supplies nutrition and pump enslaved citizens full of stuff that can shorten the lifespan. Also bear in mind, for most people in the Imperium, life doesn’t just suck, you’re killed for any number of reasons. Having a bad headache and suffering from some regular illness? Could be a sign you’re being Chaos-infected, so you need to be executed. Complaining that we executed your child? You’re probably in rebellion, we’ll execute you, too.In other words, millions upon millions die every day, for many reasons, most of whom have shortened lifespans. The cruelty of the Imperium is responsible for it's own population control. We don't have the same staggering problem of genocidal acts in modern Earth as the Imperium, which obviously helps with logistics, you don't feed the dead.You know what allows us, here on earth, to feed so many people? Technology. We’ve been able to genetically engineer (fancy cross-breeding) our food to do so; the original purpose of this was to help end world hunger. In 40k a lot of the food is also heavily processed and engineered, mostly to probably extend shelf-life..Agri-worlds and other planetsThink in terms of land mass for locally grown food with the Imperium compared to modern Earth. China has a population exceeding 1 billion. And almost all of their foodstuffs is produced by their population. They have very efficient methods of growing and supplying their own food. And many planets in the Imperium have populations far less than China, meaning the available land for food on such planets far exceed the locals, creating much excess for other plants.Agri-worlds are the best example of this, designed to have a very small population in relation to their size. We’re talking about a wheat field the size of an entire continent, harvested by only a few ten thousand people or so.A single acre of wheat converted to bread… with 2 loaves a day, can sustain 2,250 people for the day, or 6 people for a year. So lets make a continuous wheat field the size of Texas. Almost (or near almost enough) nothing but wheat; the whole state. That’s 15.77 billion acres. That translates to over 380 billion people fed for a day, or just over 1 billion people for a year. And remember, there’s going to be more efficient methods of producing and squeezing calories out of these.1 agri-world with an entire continent of wheat fields the size of Australia (nearly 2 trillion acres) can help feed 12 billion people for an entire year. With weather conditions kept somewhat consistent and improved (alien) forms of plants they’ve probably been able to mutate planted on a super soil, it’s not hard to imagine an entire agri-world harvesting the entire planet’s worth twice a year. You’re talking about 1 planet easily feeding hundreds of billions of people each year.And those shipments are probably concentrated on those who can’t grow or manufacture their own bread products. There’s several planets with diversity like earth that’s perfectly capable of self-sustaining itself and won’t need to import all that wheat from somewhere else..Industrial / Forge Worlds“Wow, the entire planet is one big city?”“Ha, ha, no. The entire planet is one big factory.”This is the other reason. You see, as the population grows, more land mass is needed to help sustain it’s agriculture and production. We can see this on real-world earth. When you pick up those things and spread them across an entire planet, things become a lot more sustainable (assuming you’re living in a sci-fi world fortunate enough to have an ancient race running around terraforming making millions and millions of planets suitable for this and they’re no longer here to tell you to get off).Like I said, you can think about the acres of land we need on earth for factory production compared to our population (and the population that even uses the products created in said in mass factories, i.e. chop out 70% of the Middle East and 85% of Africa), and remember that most planets have populations significantly less than earth.Industrial worlds have relatively small populations as well. They’re just there to make sure the machinery is in order. And of course the most prized of them all for technology are those owned by the sub-faction, Adeptus Mechanicus and their forge worlds. Remember that these people can go on minimal food or days without eating because they’re largely cybernetic. So their need for food to sustain them is significantly less than your Average Joe..Imperial armies not as big as you thinkMost of the armies in the Imperium are composed of PDFs, the planetary defense force. They’re pretty much your militia types and some are more militarized than others (see Cadia… or what was Cadia). The actual Imperial Guard itself isn’t nearly as big as you might consider.Except when required as part of their tax (each planet has to give something back to the Imperium regularly, sometimes it’s manpower), Imperial Guard regiments are raised on an as-needed basis; the number indicates the point at which the regiment was created, until it completely dissolves (i.e. the Mordian 107th is the 107th regiment raised from the planet).When it’s believed there’s a threat to a planet significant enough to require additional manpower and assets, a call is made to nearby planets that have soldiers who are adequate for the job in terms of the local planet type. On the desert world of Taros for example, the commanders in charge tried to ask for Tallern “Desert Raiders”. Well, they were scoffed because everyone with a desert planet and a problem is asking for Tallern Desert Raiders, so they largely had to make do elsewhere (they still got a few, they just got laughed at for trying to fill an entire roster of them.)Other regiments on a planet where military action is ended or withdrawing, a request for diverted manpower can also be made there.The local planet in question is obviously required to do this as per their loyalties to the Imperium, so they’ll try and muster what they can through a draft or call of volunteers (if they’re lucky). Some of the PDF might be sent up if they don’t think they’re in too much danger.Planets like Cadia (or like Cadia used to be) were completely militarized populations and so if you needed 100,000 Imperial Guard troops somewhere, Cadia could pick anyone from their population and send them on the way; almost everyone’s a professional soldier, little additional training is required.Most of the time though, you get civilians such as one described who looked up and wondered why the steel ceiling had been replaced by a giant blue paint blob with white dots. (Yes, from an actual diary of an Imperial Guardsman).But in all, it’s extremely rare that more than a million ground troops show up. The Russian Red Army in WWII outnumbers most assembled Imperial Guard armies..They take a LOT of casualtiesYou don’t have to sustain a soldier if he’s dead. As such, a lot of the Imperial Guard strategy has to do with concentration of overwhelming number of soldiers on an enemy and push them out quickly. If not, hopefully just slow them down to the point they can’t do further damage elsewhere.Of course, while this actually works most of the time, there’s plenty of instances where that isn’t feasible. Dark Eldar incursions that don’t allow buildup of forces or entire Tyranid hive fleets simply opening it’s mouth and swallowing a planet whole (figuratively?)..Last but not least, for the worst [salvageable] situations, you have these guysA running joke is that the Imperial Guard are there to slow down the enemy so the Space Marines can come in, save the day, and take all the credit. But surprisingly, that’s not actually how it works, usually.The Space Marines are sent to a problem that is relatively “small” at onset, but it’s probably going to get really big otherwise. You can’t wait on raising a regiment of Imperial Guard and throwing them as a giant, slow, hammer swing at the problem. If the Adeptus Astartes are somewhere nearby, and they’re listening, and not dealing with five other problems (which, they usually are), then they’ll come to the call and kick it out of the galaxy. And they’ll do it with minimal use of resources and minimal waste to the region (comparatively).The Space Marines are an extreme force multiplier and enable the Imperium to withstand and cut out enemies offensively and quickly with surgical strikes. A few squads of Space Marines are almost always enough to settle a problem that would take an entire army to do.If an army is still needed, the Space Marines are sent in first. The PDF or Imperial Guard are then able to work for mopping up. And a lot of times, if you have to send huge numbers of men at a problem, it’s big enough they’re going to have at least some Space Marines with them to help out.

The Army basically needs to get out of the 1940’s. Computerization to the Army was basically to convert paper to PDF. The amount of forms is staggering, and I really can’t fathom why one would need to type any of your basic information when you needed a chipped ID card to log on.Take the APFT failure counseling. This is done a DA Form 4856 Developmental Counselling form, populated with the counselled soldiers information and scores, some mandatory boilerplate about what happens if the soldier fails another APFT, and some plan for the them to do more pushups. Failing APFT and Height/Weight is two seperate counselings. This PDF is normally emailed to the soldier, the soldier digitally signs and emails the PDF back where their first line leader signs it and emails it on up the chain. Why isn’t there an App for this?The Army needs a smartphone with some sensible apps and a CAC reader.

Ancient Mesopotamian Texts Show PTSD May Be as Old as Combat Itself“My past is an armour I cannot take off, no matter how many times you tell me the war is over.” - unknown.[1]Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD—also known as soldier’s heart, shell shock, and battle fatigue—is the collection of symptoms that plague some survivors of traumatic events, including nightmares, flashbacks, depression, hyper-vigilance and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event, lasting for months or even years interfering with day-to-day functioning.[2]PTSD wasn’t clinically recognized in the U.S. until 1980, following a surge in classifiable cases from soldiers returning home from the Vietnam War.[3] Before that, terms like “shell shock”[4] were used to describe post-combat psychological struggles, and many soldiers, either because of external pressures or their own feelings of shame, kept quiet about emotional injuries first sustained in war.Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop when one experiences, observes or gains awareness about an event involving actual or threatened death due to fire, natural disaster, mugging, robbery, plane crash, torture, kidnapping, life-threatening medical diagnosis, terrorist attack, and other extreme or life-threatening events. The most common events leading to the development of PTSD include: combat exposure, childhood physical abuse, sexual violence or violation, physical assault, and being threatened with a weapon.[5] Doctors aren't sure why some people get PTSD, while others do not. As with most mental health problems, PTSD is probably caused by a complex mix of:Stressful experiences, including the amount and severity of trauma you've gone through in your lifeInherited mental health risks, such as a family history of anxiety and depressionInherited features of your personality — often called your temperamentThe way your brain regulates the chemicals and hormones your body releases in response to stress.[6]Most who go through traumatic events may have temporary difficulty adjusting and coping, but with time and good self-care, they generally improve.Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Assyrian soldiers | Archaeology News from Past HorizonsResearchers studying 500,000 cuneiform tablets from the time they were first written, about 3200 B.C. in Uruk until the 1st century AD., came across descriptions of symptoms that sound remarkably similar to post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.[7]As such, this may be the earliest textual reference of PTSD in history. The findings were reported in the journal Early Science and Medicine by Walid Khalid Abdul-Hamid of Queen Mary University of London and Jamie Hacker Hughes of the Veterans and Families Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. The researchers said that the Assyrian soldiers “described hearing and seeing ghosts talking to them, who would be the ghosts of people they’d killed in battle – and that’s exactly the experience of modern-day soldiers who’ve been involved in close hand-to-hand combat.”[8]The potentially lethal nature of war made it attractive as it provided a chance to attain fame, regardless of eventual failure or success. The success of the Assyrian empire was due to an aggressive, murderously vindictive regime supported by a magnificent and successful war machine.[9] As with the German army of World War II, the Assyrian army was the most technologically and doctrinally advanced of its day and was a model for others for generations afterwards. The Assyrians were the first to make extensive use of iron weaponry [and] not only were iron weapons superior to bronze, but could be mass-produced, allowing the equipping of very large armies indeed.[10] Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BC) traversed the whims of nature by creating an entire standing army known as ‘kisir sharruti‘.[11] In other words, his army (or at least most of the manpower) was available to him throughout the year, with a strict recruitment policy being imposed from the native provinces.[12] This was supplemented by tributes in the form of manpower from the proximate vassals along with mercenaries, thus transforming the national Assyrian army into a diverse bunch.The triumph of king Ashurbanipal, from ancient Nineveh, Iraq (Library of Ashurbanipal: 2,600 Years of Mesopotamian History)Professional soldiers enlisted by the Assyrian Dynasty in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, between 1300BC and 609BC first went through a year-long bootcamp, which also involved civil works like building roads, bridges, and other infrastructure for the kingdom.[13] The ancient powerhouse would accept taxation in the form of men supplied for service from surrounding regions. These men would conduct 3-year cycles, the first being military service.[14] The Assyrian’s military was extremely active, so these recruits would see a lot of action in brutal hand-to-hand combat.The soldiers were then sent to war for a year and, if they made it back in one piece, they were allowed to return their families for one year before repeating the cycle again.But as the ancient texts analyzed by the researchers showed, although their bodies might have come back home intact, some of the soldiers’ minds were in shatters. Texts uncovered from the time mention that the King of Elam’s “mind changed”, meaning he became disturbed, pointing to the likelihood of him suffering from PTSD.[15] A scribe in the employ of the Assyrian King Sargon II gave in 714 BCE of the despair his opponent King Rusa of Urartu felt when he observed how his troops were routed and his sacred city destroyed and looted.[16] The unusual terminology in literary and medical writings in order to convey the Urartian king’s emotional breakdown are compatible with modern medical classifications of PTSD.While modern technology has produced very effective targeted weaponry:“Ancient soldiers facing the risk of injury and death must have been just as terrified of hardened and sharpened swords, showers of sling-stones or iron-hardened tips of arrows and fire arrows. The risk of death and the witnessing of the death of fellow soldiers appears to have been a major source of psychological trauma. Moreover, the chance of death from injuries, which can nowadays be surgically treated, must have been much greater in those days. All these factors contributed to post-traumatic or other psychiatric stress disorders resulting from the experience on the ancient battlefield.”[17]So perhaps it’s not surprising that an advanced civilization with medical care would have some documents concerning the harsh psychological effects of war. Mesopotamians attributed disorders in sick soldiers to “roving” or “roaming” ghosts who were blamed for an alteration of mental state causing what they described as being a “wandering mind”.[18] Of significance to post-traumatic psychological disorders is the recording of “ghost-induced mut-ism with vivid nightmares.” [19] The reference in these cases to “slurring of speech and loss of cognitive functions” might indicate the presence of drug abuse co-morbidity, which is now known to be prevalently associated with post-traumatic psychological disorders.The Assyrians relied upon two types of healers to treat PTSD. The asipu was a spiritual healer, while the asu was a medical healer.[20] The two worked together to form a holistic model of healing. In one Assyrian ritual, the asipu would invoke the name of dead Warriors and say:“You [the Warrior who is suffering with grief] are made to swear, You lift up the reed torch and say as follows: ‘From this day on, [the dead Warrior will] head for somewhere else.’”[21]“If in the evening, he sees either a living person or a dead person or someone known to him or someone not known to him or anybody or anything and becomes afraid; he turns around but, like one who has [been hexed with?] rancid oil, his mouth is seized so that he is unable to cry out to one who sleeps next to him, ‘hand’ of ghost (var. hand of [...]).”“[If ] his mentation is altered so that he is not in full possession of his faculties, ‘hand’ of a roving ghost; he will die.”“If his mentation is altered, [...] (and) forgetfulness(?) (and) his words hinder each other in his mouth, a roaming ghost afflicts him. (If ) [...], he will get well.”[22]Weapons and tactics change, but PTSD goes back millenniaPreviously, the first documented instance of PTSD was thought to be Herodotus’ account of the Athenian spear carrier Epizelus’ psychogenic mutism and blindness following the Marathon Wars in 490 BC.[23] There was no physical cause for his blindness — no blow had been landed upon him – but Epizelus himself would later relate that he had encountered on the field a man of immense stature with beard overflowing his shield; this phasma, or phantom as Epizelus termed it, passed him by, and slew instead the man at his side.[24] Selective mutism is a severe anxiety disorder where a person is unable to speak in certain social situations, such as with classmates at school or to relatives they do not see very often. It usually starts during childhood and, if left untreated, can persist into adulthood. A child or adult with selective mutism does not refuse or choose not to speak at certain times, they're literally unable to speak. The expectation to talk to certain people triggers a freeze response with feelings of panic, like a bad case of stage fright, and talking is physically prohibited.[25] People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism, or punishment.[26] Selective mutism usually co-exists with social anxiety disorder.[27]Achilles, hero of the Trojan war, is commonly held to be an ancient sufferer of PTSD.[28] Sophocles plays are filled with characters, who behaviors are nearly identical to those who served in the two Gulf Wars ( In Britain, psychologists expose veterans experiencing PTSD to Sophocles works as a way to open up a dialogue).[29] And in one potential account of PTSD, one chronicler described the crusaders coming home from the Third Crusade (1189-92), writing that though these men “survived unharmed … their hearts were pierced by swords of sorrows from different sorts of suffering”.[30]Battle of Til-Tuba (Battle of the River Ulai), Ashurpanibal's Southwest Palace Nineveh, Iraq, 660BC-650BC (wall panel; relief | British Museum)Despite the passage of several thousand years, the fundamentals of humanity have changed little, if at all. This includes being highly reliant on creating filters with which we perceive our surrounding environment. Although PTSD is no longer considered the actions of vengeful and angry ghosts, its effects would still be recognisable to an ancient physician or shaman, and it is still as damaging to the individual.[31] Many ancient cultures sought to deal with and create specific rituals to heal the unseeable and drive off the ghosts who caused them. The central purpose of these often culturally unique rituals was to welcome the returning soldier back into society and allow for the release of trauma. The Romans directed the Vestal Virgins to bathe returning soldiers, purging them of the corruption of war.[32] Native Americans performed sweat lodge purification rituals, in which the returning warriors would share their stories and sweat out their perceived ‘inner pollution’.[33] While it is unlikely that a vengeful spirit explanation is correct, it does contain the insight that the sickness originated from an inward or unseeable wounding, and these invisible wounds could be just as deadly as any outward wound.Diagnosing diseases from ancient texts, however, is not without its difficulties—not only because our understanding and ability to describe disease is so culturally dependent, but also because it is difficult to exclude other explanations such as neuro-psychological signs of head injury, which itself can be related to but is distinct from PTSD.[34] Although PTSD is challenging (and sometimes impossible) to diagnose from text alone, these accounts show that trauma and distress haunted veterans likely since humans first waged war on one another.Footnotes[1] How did Ancient warriors deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?[2] Veterans of PTSD[3] Conceptualization of PTSD from the Vietnam War to Current Conflicts and Beyond[4] Is Shell Shock the Same as PTSD?[5] Symptoms of PTSD[6] Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Causes [7] Weapons and tactics change, but PTSD goes back millennia[8] Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic stress disorders in the ancient world - PubMed[9] The Iron Army: Assyria – Terrifying Military of the Ancient World – Part I[10] Ancient Assyrians And Their Army: 10 Things You Should Know[11] Assyria and its Army – Sargon II’s Reign I[12] Ancient Assyrians And Their Army: 10 Things You Should Know[13] The Assyrian army[14] The Hidden Evidence Of PTSD In The Ancient World[15] Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Assyrian soldiers | Archaeology News from Past Horizons[16] The Madness of King Rusa: the psychology of despair in eighth century Assyria[17] (PDF) Nothing New under the Sun: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in the Ancient World[18] Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic stress disorders in the ancient world - PubMed[19] The Hidden Evidence Of PTSD In The Ancient World[20] Health Care in Ancient Mesopotamia[21] New Evidence of PTSD in 1300 BC: What we can learn from history — Save A Warrior™[22] Nothing new under the sun: post-traumatic stress disorders in the ancient world - PubMed[23] We need to talk about Epizelus: ‘PTSD’ and the ancient world[24] Encountering Gods: The Curious Case of Epizelus at Marathon[25] Selective mutism [26] http://Dummit; et al. (1997). "Systematic assessment of fifty children with Selective Mutism". Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 36 (5): 653–660.[27] http://Johnson, Maggie and Wintgens, Alison, (2016). "The Selective Mutism Resource Manual: 2nd Edition (A Speechmark Practical Sourcebook)".[28] Was Achilles Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?[29] Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War (Published 2017)[30] Before trauma: the crusades, medieval memory and violence[31] How did Ancient warriors deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?[32] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1187%26context%3Dwwuet&ved=2ahUKEwixmqeLsYXtAhUKCc0KHeb9BoEQFjANegQIGRAB&usg=AOvVaw35yFrUYerJBcG9URRRASAk[33] Veterans Tackle PTSD with Traditional Indian Healing[34] Ancient philosophers on mental illness - Marke Ahonen, 2019