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Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
Red Medicine
The Presumption of PTSD
I've heard this process described to me as the figure of the soldier being placed between the state and those that wish to criticize the state's decisions around military policy. And that's where the argument begins to emerge that they were traumatized by precisely being put in the middle. But the blame is not from the state. So in some sense, you displace the killing fields of Vietnam entirely onto a kind of support for the troops.
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