One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.