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There is such an amplification of violence, and we're going to have to face it as a culture.

We're going to have to unify on this.

We're going to have to stand up together collectively and say no more.

Does that mean we need to have troops on the street everywhere, a policeman on every corner?

No, that's not what I'm calling for, but society is going to have to take a shift.

We're going to have to take the deep look inside and address this rot that's coming, or that has manifested itself.

The duality of man is a false dichotomy, at least when it comes to violence with just cause.

The armed and trained are painted as itching for a fight.

The warfighter, especially the combat veteran, is cast as broken, dangerous, and one spark away from disaster.

This is the shallow comfort of a culture addicted to easy labels, calm or chaotic, peaceful or aggressive.

But the real world isn't that clean. In the crucible of war, the street, and the places where decisions shape life and death, opposites live side by side. There is calmness and violence.

Peace grows in the discipline of preparing for war. These are not contradictions. They are the deeper

truths known only to those who have walked both past and return change.

This book is not a celebration of violence.

It is a study of it.

I am pretty moved when I read the words that are in this book.

And that doesn't happen a lot for me.

You know, from reading the Book of Five Rings to the gates of fire to all the other books

that have been written throughout history.

You know when you read something powerful and profound.

And that's why I really wanted to bring Adam McLean, United States Marine Infantry Rifleman,

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