Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War

Matthew C. Gutmann

Published by University of California Press 2010

Breaking Ranks

Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War

Matthew C. Gutmann

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520947900

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About this book

Breaking Ranks brings a new and deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on extensive interviews with each of the six, the book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early missions, their tours of combat, and what has happened to them since returning home. The compelling stories of this diverse cross section of the military recount how each journey to Iraq began with the sincere desire to do good. Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Anne Lutz show how each individual's experiences led to new moral and political understandings and ultimately to opposing the war.

Author / Editor information

Gutmann Matthew C. :

Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz are Professors of Anthropology at Brown University. Matthew Gutmann is the author of The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City; The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico; and Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico, all from UC Press. Catherine Lutz is the author of Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century, Reading National Geographic (with Jane Collins), and Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and their Challenge to Western Theory.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: A Different Kind of War Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Innocence
1. Recruiting Volunteers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Training Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. First Missions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Part II. War’s Crucible
4. Inside Iraq, on the Outskirts of Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Face to Face with Iraqi Civilians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. Awakenings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part III. Aftermath and Activism
7. Homecoming Traumas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
8. Speaking Out Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Conclusion: Six Soldiers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 234

eBook

Published: August 4, 2010
ISBN: 9780520947900