The Role of Moral Injury in Combat Trauma

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I think it's maybe like 10%. It says, I don't know the number to be fair, but it is not the majority. The thing that's complicated is if you're part of the logistical command and you're driving around in Rockin, Afghanistan and you're hitting road bombs, IEDs, it's not combat, but it are exposure to violence. So it's not that there's a clear black and white, but there are all sorts of people who are in the press office. Phil Kly, one of the most famous veteran writers, was not. He was in the public relations office.

Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletter and vast archives at thedigradio.com Buy: Fighting in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm versobooks.com/books/4138-fighting-in-a-world-on-fire The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class