In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted… - Philip Caputo
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted…
- Philip Caputo
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. - Philip Caputo
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front. - Philip Caputo
In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from … - Philip Caputo
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from …
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is lik… - Philip Caputo
It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is lik…
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. - Philip Caputo
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore. - Philip Caputo
True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. - Philip Caputo
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were the… - Philip Caputo
Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were the…
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