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Lädt ... Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War (2022. Auflage)von Phil Klay (Autor)
Werk-InformationenUncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War von Phil Klay
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() Stunning, brilliant. Why are our leaders incapable of seeing war this way" Particularly our meaningless protracted engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. Klay is a Marine (no longer active duty) but more importantly he is a person who thinks. He brings together Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, and St. Augustine to discuss how nations led through force always lose. He speaks of the disservice we do to veterans when when we shut down discussion with platitudes. He retuns again and again to what it means that nearly no Americans fight in wars anymore, and how that has allowed Americans to ignore a 20 year war. He talks about how living without faith diminished him and about the comfort he got from his return to Catholicism. He talks about the shift in perspective he experienced when he had a child and realized what we were leaving him. The essays address huge issues of morality and political philosophy, and the quotidian experiences of service personnel and of fathers at the mall, but all the stories are in service to a central philosophy. It is so smart and so good and so readable. I recommend this to every American, but sadly few will read it and be forced to ask themselves the hard questions. ETA: I forgot to mention the essay "A History of Violence" on the history of the AR-15. It was absolute genius. US involvement in 21st century warfare is ignominious at best. Written by a former (is there such a thing?) US Marine, this is a clear look at what we have done to a generation of soldiers who were sold a bill of goods by a succession of politicians. It also quietly underscores how this country has betrayed another nation of people who looked to us for help and guidance in defeating their own enemies. To read this series of essays is to feel a deep sadness for what the US has become and how its young brave ones have been reduced to cannon fodder. We owe the veterans more than the meagre honor they've been given. This book needs to be read. I requested and received a free ebook copy from PENGUIN GROUP/The Penguin Press via NetGalley. Thank you! Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"When Phil Klay left the Marines a decade ago, after serving as an officer in Iraq, he found himself part of the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime experiences-for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in war-from the revolutionary war of our founding, to the civil war that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we are as a country, and how should we respond as citizens? Unlike previous eras of war, few other Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless, invisible wars of the post-9/11 world at all; in fact, increasingly, few people are even aware they are still going on. It's as if there's a dark star with a strong gravitational force that draws a relatively small number of soldiers and their families into its orbit, while remaining inconspicuous to most other Americans. In the meantime, the consequences of American military action abroad may be out of sight and out of mind, but they are very real indeed. This chasm between military and civilian in American life, and the moral blind spot it has created, is one of the great themes of Uncertain Ground, Phil Klay's powerful series of reckonings in essay form over the past ten years with some of our country's thorniest concerns. In the name of what do we ask young Americans to kill, and to die? In the name of what does this country hang together? As we see at every turn in these pages, those two questions have a great deal to do with one another, and how we answer them will go a long way toward deciding where our troubled country goes from here"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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