While listening to this book, I remembered listening to another book from a very different perspective, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, and the vast gap between the two approaches to Afghanistan, its people, and its culture. Where TCoT was abot peace and inter-cultural understanding, Junger's book is all about American soldiers at war, and the impact the war has on them. It includes very interesting and telling findings from studies done during various wars and how negatively they affect those involved in the fighting. Why, then, do we not pay attention to these findings, and stop all the fighting? Perhaps because working toward peace seems like more effort than fighting to win. Very sad story.