#modernwar

This isn’t about war. It’s about the weight of love when someone is called away. The way grief hides in fabric. In a mug left untouched. In a voice that forgets how to say goodbye out loud.

It’s about the ones who stay. And what they carry in silence.

For the longest time, I found myself uninterested in the modern wars. I've always been fascinated by the World War II, but what interested me most was trying to understand the complexities that fostered an environment that would let something like that happen, and the resulting repercussions in society.

But when I came upon some books that really elucidated those complexities in terms of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, I was hooked. Here's what I've read in the past few months:

Nonfiction

Thank You for Your Service, by David Finkel 

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Talban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal

Fiction

Redeployment, by Phil Klay