Sublime

Marty Skovlund and coauthors’ Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror (Skovlund 2014).

Charles Simpson offers an insider’s view of the Special Forces in Vietnam with Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years—a History of the U.S. Army Special Forces (Simpson 1983).

was desperate to find his men some cover, to

Edmund Burke once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I would also add, “and being incapable of doing something.” Interestingly enough, simply knowing how to be violent in the right circumstances may keep a situation from escalating altogether.

the younger the soldier was when he got injured, the better he was now; the older the soldier, the more permanent the damage.