The Army Might Screw You And Your

An Adventure Is A Situation Where The Outcome Is Not Entirely Within Your Control. It Is Up To Fate, In Other Words

No Matter How Many People You Kill, Using A Machine Gun In Battle Is Not A War Crime Because It Does Not Cause Unnecessary Suffering; It Simply Performs Its Job Horrifyingly Well.

I’ve Stopped War Reporting. I Realized That I’d Answered All Of My Questions About War And About Myself.

Society Can Give Its Young Men Almost Any Job And They'll Figure How To Do It. They'll Suffer For It And Die For It And Watch Their Friends Die For It, But In The End, It Will Get Done. That Only Means That Society Should Be Careful About What It Asks For. ... Soldiers Themselves Are Reluctant To Evaluate The Costs Of War, But Someone Must. That Evaluation, Ongoing And Unadulterated By Politics, May Be The One Thing A Country Absolutely Owes The Soldiers Who Defend Its Borders.

I Went To Afghanistan In '96 To Write About Terrorist Training Camps South Of Jalalabad And Tora Bora, In The Mountains. I Was There Right Before The Taliban Took Over, Literally A Few Weeks Before They Took Kabul. The Frontline Wasn't Terribly Active, But It Was Definitely There. And They Swept Into Power.