A nation must think before it acts.
FPRI’s David Danelo Interviewed by War on the Rocks on His New Book, “The Return: A Field Manual for Life After Combat”
“There’s an important distinction between ‘transitioning’ and what I call returning. Transitioning is about taking skills and aptitudes and repurposing them from a military context into civilian employment. By contrast, returning is more esoteric — this involves completing a spiritual and social rite of passage. Unlike merely transitioning, those who return can go back and forth in various mental and emotional places, all the while being grounded in who they are. They have evolved to the point that they can walk comfortably in both war and peace, and choose how to operate in each circumstance.”