Anna Louie Sussman delves into the reasons why forcibly recruited soldiers are more likely to rape:
Forcibly recruited men, [scholar Dara Kay Cohen] argues, meld into a cohesive unit through gang rape, a process she calls "combatant socialization." … In other words, strange men thrown together in an impromptu fighting force use it as an unspoken means to build team spirit. The public, performative nature of gang rape carries a different message ("We're all in this together") than an individual rape perpetrated in private ("I'm doing this right now because a breakdown of law and order means I can get away with it.")
The Dish 