![]() ![]() This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. What will happen to my body after I die? What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? What does it feel like to kill someone? What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? What is the most painful way to get wounded? What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? ![]() Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. CONTENTS Introduction 1 War 101 2 Enlistment 3 Life in War 4 Weapons and Wounds 5 Weapons of Mass Destruction 6 The Moment of Combat 7 Imprisonment, Torture, and Rape 8 Dying 9 After the War Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION I have spent most of my adult life reporting war. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical - and fascinating - lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. ![]()
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