Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD
Red Medicine
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The Last Ground War in America
Do you think the way in which America was defeated in Vietnam posed a problem for soldiers in making sense of their role in the military? I know there was some unprecedented levels of war crime and kind of viciousness in what was committed, but do you think on a more, I guess on the level of a kind of collective consciousness, the fact that it was a traumatic loss also produced some of these questions? "It was never clear. What is the exit strategy here if you keep gaining ground and losing ground," he says.
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