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Armies know about killing. It is what they do, and ours does it better than most. Were painfully coming to understand, however, that we are also especially proficient at killing our very own ''from the within away,'' silently, invisibly. In every major conflict since Korea, more of our veterans took their lives than have lost them in battle. The latest research, rooted in experienced testimony, unveils that the most unfortunate and intractable PTSD - fraught with shame, despair, and suicide - stems from "moral accident". But how can there be rampant moral accident in what our military services, our administration, our churches, & most everyone else call just wars? At the main of our own incomprehension is placed just conflict theory - developed, broadened, and updated over the centuries to accommodate the evolution of warfare, its weaponry, its size, and its victims. Any serious critique of conflict, as well any true attempt to understand the deep, unseen wounds it inflicts, will be undermined from the outset by the unthinking and all-but-universal approval of just conflict doctrine. Killing from the within Out radically questions that theory, examines its legacy, and challenges us to look beyond it, beyond just conflict.
