The Moral Injury

Marine Capt. Timothy Kudo provides one of the more coherent and compelling accounts of the penultimate cost of war:

[T]he ethical damage of war may be worse than the physical injuries we sustain. To properly wage war, you have to recalibrate your moral compass. Once you return from the battlefield, it is difficult or impossible to repair it... War makes us killers. We must confront this horror directly if we’re to be honest about the true costs of war.

Read the article here.