If one wants to be negative,
that's a way to look at it. While it is true that anyone can snap at an unexpected trigger event, low level snapping can be easily precluded by good selection and training. We in the US have only marginal selection and training for most and my observation has been that the figures I cited are conservative, your fight or flight pattern is the exception. A small one at that.
Du Picq is part of your problem -- different time, different training regimen, very different TTP so while he was fairly accurate for France and his time, that was then -- probably up through WW I -- and this is now and it's the US; even our marginal training obviates many of Du Piq's concerns. Plus the US Soldier and Marine have rarely complied with European norms. Nothing wrong with those norms, just that the US was and is a little different. As the COIN fans say, culture matters...;)
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"A little wandering does small damage"
I read that somewhere. Or maybe I made it up. I'm old, can't remember...:confused: :D