In my eyes Marlantes has become the pre-eminent literary voice on war of our generation. He is a natural storyteller and a deeply profound thinker wh…

- Sebastian Junger

The most profound question is, "What would I risk dying for?" The natural answer is "for my family." But for most of history, we didn't live in famil…

- Sebastian Junger

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

- Sebastian Junger

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime …

- Sebastian Junger

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives …

- Sebastian Junger

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

- Sebastian Junger

At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. …

- Sebastian Junger

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. Th…

- Sebastian Junger

One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, peop…

- Sebastian Junger