Different Perspectives on America’s Wars

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Children born on Sept. 11 are old enough to fight in the war that began that day. When they go into battle, they will only know the video of the Twin Towers falling, of the Pentagon wounded and smoking, as historical footage, much like the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination looks to an earlier generation.

Will they know why they’re fighting in Iraq in Afghanistan? Do we still know?

CJ Chivers of The New York Times joins us to talk it through.

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0:09.0	Just click the link in the show description to support now. Competence can't overcome a doctrine or a strategy or a set of operational ideas that are unlikely to work. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front
0:42.0	lines. Here are your hosts, Matthew Gault. In a few weeks the U.S. will have been at war
0:56.0	college. I'm Jason Fields and I'm Matthew Gault. In a few weeks the U.S.
1:01.5	will have been at war long enough for kids born after September 11th to join the military.
1:07.0	Fighting, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows no sign of ending.
1:12.0	More than 3 million men and women have done that
1:16.3	fighting, often with little recognition.
1:18.8	CJ Chivers of the New York Times aims to change that with this new book.
1:23.4	It's called The Fighters, Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
1:28.6	In it, he brings American troops into focus and he relates their experiences along with their doubts.
1:35.4	And he's here with us today.
1:36.8	Thanks so much for joining us.
1:38.8	Thanks for having me.
1:40.2	The book is built around individual stories. Can you give us a brief outline of the people you're profiling?
1:47.3	So there are six primary profiles in the book along with one of their mothers so it comes to seven and they are a set of
1:57.2	characters who I selected that represent different places and phases and times in the in the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and one is a strike fighter pilot and another
2:10.0	special forces NCO.
2:12.6	Another is a Navy corpsman,
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