by Larry Minear
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 42, 126
veterans’ organizations, 42–46
Vietnam War, 15, 39, 40, 68, 75, 109, 111, 121, 131, 138–39, 149,
compared with Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, 166–176
veterans, vii, 130, 149, 155, 191
violence
impact on veterans, 63–64, 70, 175
random nature of, 55–58
Votevets.org, 43
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 61, 148–49, 159, 163
War Anthology, The, 120
Wisconsin, 55, 59, 90, 133
women. See female veterans
World War I, 166
World War II, 57, 75, 121, 163, 166, 169, 170, 173, 180, 182, 186
Wounded Warrior program, 144
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Larry Minear is a researcher and writer on international humanitarian and military institutions in armed conflicts around the world. Co-founder and director of the Humanitarianism and War Project, he has been associated since 1989 with research groups at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center. His publications include The U.S. Citizen-Soldier and the Global War on Terror: The National Guard Experience (2007); The Humanitarian Enterprise: Dilemmas and Discoveries (2000); with Ian Smillie, The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World (2004); and with Philippe Guillot, Soldiers to the Rescue: Lessons from Rwanda (1996). He retired from Tufts in 2006 and lives with his wife, Beth, on Cape Cod.
* Francois Bouchet-Saulnier, The Practical Guide to International Humanitarian Law (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Definition of “War,” 411.
* David H. Petraeus and James F. Amos, Counterinsurgency Field Manual (Washington, DC: U.S. Army, December 15, 2006), A–45.
* Matthew Currier Burden, Introduction, The Blog of War: Front-line Dispatches from Soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq (New York and London: Simon and Shuster 2006), 3–4.
* Paul Gregory Mayfield Collection (AFC2001/001/60193) video recording (MV01), VHP, AFC, LOC.
* State of New Hampshire, Commission on PTSD and TBI, Interim Report, November 28, 2008
* Dan Eggan, “Bush Visits Injured Soldiers at Walter Reed,” Washington Post, December 23, 2008, A 04.
* President Obama’s inaugural address, January20, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address