historian and are cheap aces -- andrew jay bacevich reminds us u.s. troops in battle dress and body armor, whom americans profess to admire. the price. in this vote, i don't pretend to give anything like a complete picture of soldiers, but rather offer a series of snapshots of soldiers i met and the people around them. caregivers and family members and friends who look after them with the don't go according to plan. the two say the price of folly. i gathered the snapshots on military bases and military house those in the united states in this war zones and houses here at home. they are not pretty pictures. they are what i saw. perhaps darkened by the knowledge that nothing recorded in this book has to happen. were not natural. we have to be trained for it. soldiers and citizens alike. all right. thank you. war is not natural. we have to be trained for it. soldiers and citizens alike. and the wars of choice be retrained for and the wars these soldiers took part in need never have been thought. contrary to common opinion in the united states, war is not