Alpha male death rate and war's effect on society

[ganulv]

I would postulate that whatever our current social -ism is, it is distinctly not manly (lack of desire to breed, inclusiveness to the point of submission, risk adverse malaise) in most societies being a product of our current culture and there I may be wrong.

I think in our current society most of us breed just fine, or at least have the strong desire to do so. Whether we do well at childrearing (not the same as overall fertility, of course) is another question.

The data set problem is quite insurmountable. You need at least 30 samples before a statistician will even consider relevancy.
Where do you want to find 30 countries with very high rates of wartime attrition during a short period?

You could do a case study of a single nation. I personally think that coming up with an operational definition may be the insurmountable issue. A USMC Private and Bill Clinton both can probably be put into the alpha male category, for example.