It’s possible that the chief of trauma surgery has things backwards. It’s possible, even likely, that for all military medicine contributes to specialized skilks, it actually detracts from civilian medicine be diverting resources, research, and...

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

war is not inevitable. Nor has it always been with us. War is a human invention—an organized, deliberate action of an anti-social kind—and in the long span of human life on Earth, a fairly recent...

The doctor who heads the trauma unit [at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany] wants to tell a happy story, too. He tells me that war is good for civilian medicine. I’ve read reports that...

For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.