Two Decades of War Have Eroded the Morale of America’s Troops
By Phil Klay Veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and author of "Redeployment", The Atlantic Read bio
April 14, 2018
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If the courage of young men and women in battle truly does depend on the nature and quality of our civic society, we should be very worried.
South of Fallujah’s Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who’d spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the Koran, and watching videos of suicide bombers to inspire them for the fight to come. North of Route Fran were the roughly 1,000 men of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, preparing themselves for the assault. Route Fran itself was a wide, four-lane highway. On November 9, 2004, the highway was wet—it’d rained the previous day—and the sky was gray and foreboding.
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