Brigadier Rees, who is the consulting psychiatrist for the British Army, RAMC, points out that in Great Britain some 30 per cent of the final discharge rate is due to various psychiatric disorders. This is on a par with figures in Canada and the United States. He points out that in rapid action, winning warfare there is a much smaller percentage of war neuroses than in long, drawn-out and stalemated military situations. In Britain, psychotics are kept in military hospitals for as long as six to nine months if they are responding