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Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer reviews Nancy Sherman's new book "Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers."

U.S. Army officer Douglas Pryer reviews Kenneth Englade’s new book, Meltdown in Haditha, and discusses the lessons still to be learned from a terrible tragedy.

Lieutenant Colonel Douglas A. Pryer calls Charles Krohn’s "The Lost Battalion of TET: Breakout of the 2/12 Cavalry at Hue" an Army "classic."

The second of a two-part feature, Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer examines the effects of moral injury on military culture and military suicide.

Lt. Col. Douglas A. Pryer, looking back at classical literature and his own experience in Iraq, makes the case that "moral injury" better explains some psychological symptoms than PTSD. This is the first of a two-part essay.