what every person should know about war by chris hedges

This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.

He is host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.Ībout the Author Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times.

What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? What does it feel like to kill someone? What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? What is the most painful way to get wounded? What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Book Synopsis Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical - and fascinating - lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants.

What every person should know about war by chris hedges