Killing from the Inside Out (Meagher - pbk)

Author: Robert Emmet Meagher

ISBN: 9781625646927

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Armies know all about killing. We are painfully coming to realize, however, that we are also especially good at killing our own "from the inside out" silently, invisibly. In every major war since Korea, more of our veterans have taken their lives than have lost them in combat. The latest research, rooted in veteran testimony, reveals that the most severe and intractable PTSD—fraught with shame, despair, and suicide—stems from "moral injury"—But how can there be rampant moral injury in what our military, our government, our churches, and most everyone else call just wars? At the root of our incomprehension lies just war theory—developed, expanded, and updated across the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its scale, and its victims.