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What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes · 初版 2011 年
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出自 New York Times 畅销书 Matterhorn 作者之手，这是一部极具震撼力的 nonfiction 作品，探讨了实战体验以及我们对年轻男女奔赴战场的准备是何等不足。战争与人类历史一样古老，但在过去，战士们是通过仪式、宗教和文学来做好战斗准备的——这也有助于引领他们重返家园。在引人入胜的叙述中，Marlantes 将自己惊心动魄的 combat experiences 与深思熟虑的分析、自我反省以及他从 Homer 到 Mahabharata 再到 Jung 的阅读感悟交织在一起。他坦率地谈到自己如何长久地被那副面孔所困扰（t
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…世界上任何地方接受过杀人训练，我们的国家（以及你们的国家）就不需要要求人们为了服务同胞而牺牲那部分人性。你可以读读 Marlantes 的《战火淬炼》（What It Is Like To Go To War）。你可能会发现，海豹突击队虽然乐于骄傲地谈论他们在基础训练里学到了什么，但没几个人愿意高高兴兴地提起被部署到战场时战争迫使他们去做的那些事。那些人…
…anywhere in the world was trained to kill other people, our country (and yours) wouldn't need to ask people to sacrifice that part of their humanity in service to their countrymen. You might read Marlantes _What It Is Like To Go To War_. You might find that while SEALs are happy to speak proudly what they've learned in basic training, not so many of them speak happily about what war forces them to do during deployment. Those people…
…把其中的任何一部分当作“自选的”。在退伍军人照护上投入多得多的资源，或许也能帮助一些国家在参战前重新掂量一下战争的代价。想看关于这个主题的好书，可以读读 Karl Marlantes 的《战火淬炼》（What It Is Like To Go To War）。这才是“支持军队”应该有的含义。
…any of it as "elective". Spending significantly more resources on veteran care might also help some countries reconsider the costs of war before engaging in it. For a good book on the subject, read "What It Is Like To Go To War", by Karl Marlantes. This is what "support the troops" should mean.
…歼敌数量”（body count）才是最终目标，而“拿下这个高地”主要是为了顺带（以极其有利的交换比）消灭敌人。Karl Marlantes 在《战火淬炼》（What it is like to go to war）里对此提出了非常到位的批评——统计数据上层层加码的谎言，以及歼敌人数统计最终的徒劳与毫无意义。我不太确定这是因为缺乏可以进攻的焦点目标，…
…count" was the end goal, and "take this hill" was primarily for the purpose of incidentally killing (at a very favorable exchange ratio) the enemy. Karl Marlantes has a pretty good criticism of this in "What it is like to go to war" -- the escalating levels of lying over statistics, as well as the ultimate futility and irrelevance of the body count statistic. Unclear to me if this was due to a lack of possible focal points to attack,…