Medhat2’s Reviews > The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle > Status Update

the whole books is about inner psychology.

my research: this book was written by someone who has experienced war (vietnam war), He explores the psychology of the soldiers in the battleifield. he founds out that war creates strange bond & soldier are more likely to die for some abstract cause (similar to sports), Shows us the loss of individuality and moral confusion.

but the idea was simply that we had to answer for what we did. We had to answer to something, to someone —maybe just to ourselves.
shows us the nihilistic nature of war.

We all figured we might be dead in the next minute, so what difference did it make what we did? But the longer I was over there, the more I became convinced that it was the other way around that counted—that because we might not be around much longer, we had to take extra care how we behaved. Anyway, that’s what made me believe I was interested in religion. Another man might have called it something else