According to Rado, the healthy soldier gives up his 'emergency control'. 'Emergency control' is a reaction of anxiety and blind rage and is the most primitive means of coping with an emergency. Transformed from a sensitive man into an insensitive technician of war, the healthy soldier loses in part his individuality and interprets combat not as a continued threat of injuries but as a sequence of operational demands to be responded to by precise military performances. He is able to take this remarkable attitude because the situation touches off in the depths of his mind the eternal human illusion of one's own invulnerability and immortality. However, if the soldier resumes his emergency control and reacts with anxiety or blind rage he becomes reëstablished as an individual and is no longer an integrated part of the