Quotes by : Sebastian Junger

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids....

The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared....

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors....

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I know what coming back to America from a war zone is like because I’ve done it so many times. First,....

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Stripped to its essence, combat is a series of quick decisions and rather precise actions carried out....

The problem with fear, though, is that it isn’t any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomy—anxiety,....

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it....