veteran

In the summer of 2016, 37-year-old Lars Kragh, a veteran of the Balkan Wars, murdered both of his parents in East Jutland, Denmark. A new book by Christensen and Mistrati analyzes how war trauma and PTSD can lead to catastrophic consequences.

Since the 1980s, U.S. Vietnam veterans have won over $150 million in settlements and billions more in VA disability benefits for Agent Orange exposure. Vietnamese victims, despite suffering far greater harm, have received no compensation from the United States.

German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down on February 1, 1966, during a classified mission over the dense jungle of Laos. His struggle to survive and escape became an extraordinary story of human endurance.

In July 2008, HBO premiered Generation Kill, a seven-part miniseries following Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's firsthand account of the U.S. Marine Corps' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Filmed across Southern Africa over six months, the series combined documentary authenticity with dramatic storytelling to examine the moral complexities of modern warfare.