I wonder how much of this is related to the whole ”beards make better soldiers" thing. Something like combat effectiveness strikes me as extremely difficult to

I wonder how much of this is related to the whole ”beards make better soldiers" thing. Something like combat effectiveness strikes me as extremely difficult to understand and incredibly dependent on people's particular psychology, as well as group Dynamics, so much so that ”magic” (a.k.a. placebo effect) is as good an explanation as we are going to get for a while. http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/study-shows-combat-effectiveness-and-beards-are-related/ http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/study-shows-combat-eff...