James Fallows:

As a country, America has been at war nonstop for the past 13 years. As a public, it has not.

Peter Beinart:

Almost one-third of those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Svetlana Alexievich:

I ask myself what kind of book I want to write about war. I'd like to write a book about a person who doesn't shoot, who can't fire on another human being, who suffers at the very idea of war. Where is he? I haven't met him.

Phil Klay:

It's only during frightening times when you get to find out if your country really deserves to call itself the 'home of the brave.'