‘There’s an unexamined belief that combat veterans have, through their close encounter with violence, been witness to an unspeakable revelatory truths about existence. … It’s sheer nonsense, of course, in strictly objective terms, but it’s a powerful belief. As a veteran myself, I have enjoyed and profited from this kind of acratic power. I have also, for better or worse, spent several years trying to publicly dismantle it.’
— Roy Scranton, Los Angeles Review of Books, 4 November 2019