Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

Here's an easy way to see if a war movie is being truthful: If you see an explosion on a faraway hillside and the sound of the explosion and the detonation of the bomb happen at the same time - if they're putting the sound and the vision together in the same moment - they're going toward our cultural understanding of war, not the reality of war.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.