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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "At the Time People Hadn't Been Asking Those Sorts of Questions" -- 2. "The Psychiatric Cost of Sending Young Men and Women to War" -- 3. "Callous Disregard of Veterans' Rights Is of a Piece with the Administration's Entire Approach to War" -- 4. "The Culture of the Army Wasn't Ready" -- 5. "Military Families Are Quietly Coming Apart at the Seams" -- 6. "The Limited Science of the Brain" -- 7. "Leaders Can Once Again Determine the Kind of Culture the Army Is Building" -- 8. "The Challenge to the VA Is Execution and Implementation" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped the newest generation of Americans. Drawing on a variety of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the volume considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people's experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects

In the years since the 9/11 attacks, members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised quesions about the strategies of the United States abroad and at home. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped this new generation of Americans. -- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "I Know What it's Like" -- 1. "How Far is Andersonville from Vietnam?": Vietnam Revisionism and Andersonville National Historic Site -- 2. "We Veterans of Mass Murder and Stupidity": Older Veterans' PTSD and the Narration of Combat in Post-Vietnam Memoirs of the Second World War -- 3. "We See a Lot of Parallels between the Men at the Alamo and Ourselves": Recovering from Vietnam at the Alamo -- 4. "We Should Have Said No": The Legacy of Vietnam, Remembrance of Somalia, and Debates over Humanitarian Intervention in the 1990s -- 5. "It's Almost like the Vietnam Wall": The Legacy of Vietnam and Remembrance of Flight -- 6. "The Lessons of History": Vietnam's Legacy during the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- Afterword: "The Task of Telling Your Story Continues" -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a "warrior," these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.

At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history--ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media