What have we done : the moral injury of our longest wars
Title:
What have we done : the moral injury of our longest wars
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2016
ISBN:
9780316264150
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The baptismal font -- It's wrong, but you have no choice -- Regardless of the cost -- The rules: made to be broken -- A friend was liquefied -- Just war -- Trotting heart, shell shock, moral injury -- Grief is a combat injury -- It's really about killing -- Vulnerable -- Betrayed -- War crime -- Atheists in the foxholes -- Home -- The touchy-feely tough guys -- Listen.
Summary:
Most Americans are now familiar with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its prevalence among troops. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the far more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our fundamental values of right and wrong that so often occurs in the impossible moral dilemmas of modern conflict. It is a call to listen intently to our newest generation of veterans, and to ponder the inevitable human costs of putting American "boots on the ground" as new wars approach. -- adapted from book jacket.
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