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UNCERTAIN GROUND - PHIL KLAY GEBUNDEN

From the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries  an astonishing
fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America. When Phil Klay
left the Marines a decade ago after serving as an officer in Iraq  he found himself a part of
the community of veterans who have no choice but to grapple with the meaning of their wartime
experiences for themselves and for the country. American identity has always been bound up in
war from the revolutionary war of our founding  to the civil war that ended slavery  to the two
world wars that launched America as a superpower. What did the current wars say about who we
are as a country  and how should we respond as citizens? Unlike in previous eras of war 
relatively few Americans have had to do any real grappling with the endless  invisible
conflicts of the post-9 11 world  in fact  increasingly few people are even aware they are
still going on. It is as if these wars are a dark star with a strong gravitational force that
draws a relatively small number of soldiers and their families into its orbit while remaining
inconspicuous to most other Americans. In the meantime  the consequences of American military
action abroad may be out of sight and out of mind  but they are very real indeed. This chasm
between the military and the civilian in American life  and the moral blind spot it has created
is one of the great themes of Uncertain Ground  Phil Klay s powerful series of reckonings with
some of our country s thorniest concerns  written in essay form over the past ten years. In the
name of what do we ask young Americans to kill  and to die? In the name of what does this
country hang together? As we see at every turn in these pages  those two questions have a great
deal to do with each another  and how we answer them will go a long way toward deciding where
our troubled country goes from here.

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