What does it mean to kill for your country? How do you learn to do it? What does it feel like in the moment? And how do you feel about it when you’re back home from war and with your family?<\/p>\n
In The Kill Switch <\/i>writer Phil Zabriskie interviews combat veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and asks them to talk about something most combat veterans don’t like talking about: what it’s like to kill another human being. Some of the stories Phil re-counts are jarring, especially for a country where only 1% of the population actually serves in the military, and only a small percentage of that already tiny number actually sees combat. The book, and our discussion about it, is both fascinating and sobering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does it mean to kill for your country? How do you learn to do it? What does it feel like in the moment? And how do you feel about it when you’re back home from war and with your family? In The Kill Switch writer Phil Zabriskie interviews combat veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-podcast"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/100-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\n