There is no more "front" and "rear" where Fobbit-types would go to hide out in safer locations. In Iraq and Afghanistan, you engaged in a theater of …

- Dave Abrams

Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention …

- Dave Abrams

I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work which was done by Joseph Heller and Ri…

- Dave Abrams

Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different t…

- Dave Abrams

If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all that, I didn't conscio…

- Dave Abrams

I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance …

- Dave Abrams

The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of …

- Dave Abrams

The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about

- Dave Abrams

I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I…

- Dave Abrams