Erik Edstrom’s Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War left me with a sadness bordering on despair, an empty feeling that burrowed into the darkest areas of my soul. It’s more than one man’s voyage into an endless war. This book is almost a . Un-American is most extraordinary because even after the indoctrination of West Point, Edstrom dared to question some of the decisions and the presence of US military as invaders not saviors. For a real look at the marketing of and true cost of war, this is a must-read. · Erik Edstrom is the author of the new book Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War (Bloomsbury). He is a graduate of West Point and the University of Oxford, was an infantry officer, Army Ranger, and Bronze Star Medal recipient who deployed to .
A Soldier's Reckoning of our Longest War. from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero." Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. A searing examination of America and Americans at war, UN-AMERICAN poses three questions that. A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War. by Erik Edstrom. Before engaging in war, Erik Edstrom asks us to imagine three, rarely imagined scenarios: First, imagine your own death. Second, imagine war from "the other side." Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the. Erik Edstrom's Un-American is well-written and well-structured. His descriptions of battlefield action and casualties are as graphic as T. E. Lawrence's in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He asks the reader to do three things when assessing whether a war is good or not: (1) imagine your own death; (2) imagine the other side; and (3) imagine the costs.
Now a veteran of the longest official war in US history has written a scathing indictment of that never-ending battle. Writing in his new book Un-American author Erik Edstrom says, “In American parlance, ‘Never Forget’ is tacitly—and exclusively—reserved for Americans to serve in their role as righteous victims, never as aggressors. Instead, let us ‘Never Forget’ the far larger costs of America’s permanent war posture and realize that humanity’s greatest problems will not. A discussion with Stoughton-bred, West Point-educated, Afghanistan veteran Erik Edstrom about his searing memoir“It’s hard to recall a time in American histo. A manifesto about America’s unchallenged war machine, from an Afghanistan veteran and new kind of military hero. Before engaging in war, Erik Edstrom asks us to imagine three, rarely imagined scenarios: First, imagine your own death. Second, imagine war from “the other side.” Third: Imagine what might have been if the war had never been fought.
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