Author: Sebastian Junger

Quotes

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

- Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

- Sebastian Junger

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

- Sebastian Junger

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

- Sebastian Junger

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