There Is Something Wrong with the Military
January 10, 2018
People who leave the military have a hard time adjusting to civilian life and often turn to alcohol and drugs, and sometimes even worse: suicide and criminal activity. Why is that? When someone quits being an electrician, a salesman, or a teacher and gets a new career these things don’t happen. What is it about being in the military that ruins so many people? Could being sent somewhere that you have no business going and doing things that you have no business doing have anything to do with it?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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