Suburban, latte-sipping, STEM major here.
I have resigned myself to the fact that I will never know the feeling of suiting up to go to war for my people and my country.
My life is a waste. Help me read some of the greatest books on war ever written.
Clausewitz.
The whole thing.
>>7824496
Veteran here. You really don't want to. The people who have done it and enjoy it aren't people you want to be around. It's a terrible, sad and hard experience. One that I'm glad I'll never do again.
The Things they Carried
Generation Kill for a modern look on soldiers.
>>7824501
OP here. Thank you for your service. I just got done with watching Generation Kill. Made me really introspect about some things.
Herr - Dispatches
>>7824501
THANK U 4 UR CERVIX
>>7824501
You have to be fucked in the head in a pretty notable way to like that stuff, right?
Reading SEAL memoirs, I felt like even all those ghost writers couldn't hide how dysfunctional and cruel-hearted their subjects were. Some of what those guys do is see-inspiring, but you get the feeling that they're like bite-happy guard dogs who get beaten a lot.
>>7824496
>romanticizing being shipped off to some third world shithole where you stand a good chance of getting shot or getting your limbs blown off
Kill yourself, t-b-h.
Storm of Steel
there are good reasons you don't hear vets reminiscing about what they went through in their wars/peace keeping actions/whatever. shit sucks and is fucked up. also ptsd is more prevalent than people think it is.
>>7824496
dying for spooks lmao u on that weak ass shit nigga
>>7824628
Storm of Steel and Wall Quiet on the Western Front read one after another.
the yellow birds is fiction but still i highly recommend it to you OP
>>7824496
Journey to the end of the night.
Anabasis - XenophonSWTG
mein gott you've got a huge spook on your shoulder
>>7824501
>The people who have done it and enjoy it aren't people you want to be around.
Depends on what you do though, right?
I haven't ever been to war, but I know that Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, said that at first the war was fun.
He also said that most of the missions he flew were just milk runs. From what I understand, the Germans just kind of gave up on the possibility of controlling the air halfway through the war.
