There is no direct correlation between success on the battlefield and the safety of loved ones.
experience – and in fact this is true for all Western countries – of going to war is a unique one in history: In the present day, Americans usually travel thousands of miles to the battlefield to fight, while their families are safe and secure from the enemy no matter what the outcome. military.īut it can’t be denied that the U.S. The heroic way those young soldiers dealt with the devastating situation alone in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan will always remain with me as a shining example of the professionalism of the U.S. During one of my last trips to Afghanistan, I reported from a remote combat outpost that had come under terrible attack. Of course, the United States Armed Forces know what it means to go to war. I have no illusion about the personal grief the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have visited upon many military families, the psychological toll inflicted, lives destroyed, and futures not to be had. Do Americans know what it’s like to go to war? The question is certainly not meant to insult to American servicemen/women and their kin who have endured 13 years of constant warfare.
