Alpha male death rate and war's effect on society

[defense linguistics]

I am deciding wether to spend any time on a project to look at the relationship between wars, or periods of war, and societal change from the assumption that are best, most alpha type males are the ones who bear the largest burden of casualties. Might not be a water tight hypothesis, but it explains France.

Beta dog + absence of Alphas = newly minted Alphas. Which also explains France. (Have you been to France? I've lived here for a decade and have noticed no absence of Alphas, actually. Maybe that's just because I work for the military.) Legend has it that losses among Napoleon's guard explains the lower average height of the population. But then my wife is 6 feet tall, so va savoir.