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"""Because David Kieran is so fair-minded, his analysis of the mentalhealth crisis in the U.S. military is devastating and persuasive.Signature Wounds provides a judicious, yet stunning, rebuke to a culturethat incessantly reminds us to support our troops yet acquiesces toendless wars that expose them to levels of psychological trauma nomental health program could possibly prevent or adequately treat."" * Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides * ""A challenge to conventional wisdom about the military ignoring PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide among troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Kieran] takes readers inside the medical arm of military services and civilian government bureaucracies showing how dedicated researchers and administrators trying to reach consensus about how to treat - and perhaps even prevent - serious mental damage and suicide...an intriguing study."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""An impressive work on a vitally important, yet understudied topic that is both illuminating and compelling. For an American society still grappling with the multifaceted problems of endless war, this is an extraordinarily relevant book that deserves a wide readership."" * Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University * ""A significant contribution to understanding the long-term human costs and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Afoundational work in this field."" * Susan Carruthers, University of Warwick * ""One comes away from Signature Wounds with a healthy respect for the military's attempts to understand and manage [PTSD and TBI], and an even greater contempt for the armchair hawks most responsible for creating them."" * New York Review of Books *"

A challenge to conventional wisdom about the military ignoring PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide among troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Kieran] takes readers inside the medical arm of military services and civilian government bureaucracies showing how dedicated researchers and administrators trying to reach consensus about how to treat - and perhaps even prevent - serious mental damage and suicide...an intriguing study. -Kirkus Reviews An impressive work on a vitally important, yet understudied topic that is both illuminating and compelling. For an American society still grappling with the multifaceted problems of endless war, this is an extraordinarily relevant book that deserves a wide readership. -Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University Because David Kieran is so fair-minded, his analysis of the mental health crisis in the U.S. military is devastating and persuasive. Signature Wounds provides a judicious, yet stunning, rebuke to a culture that incessantly reminds us to support our troops yet acquiesces to endless wars that expose them to levels of psychological trauma no mental health program could possibly prevent or adequately treat. -Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides A significant contribution to understanding the long-term human costs and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A foundational work in this field. -Susan Carruthers, University of Warwick The first comprehensive history of the military mental health crises of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. While Kieran finds both successes and failures along the way, his larger argument leads us beyond policy judgements - Kieran reveals how military mental health was itself the terrain of battle in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for historians, policy makers, and members of the US military. -Jennifer Mittlestadt, Rutgers University

Because David Kieran is so fair-minded, his analysis of the mentalhealth crisis in the U.S. military is devastating and persuasive.Signature Wounds provides a judicious, yet stunning, rebuke to a culturethat incessantly reminds us to support our troops yet acquiesces toendless wars that expose them to levels of psychological trauma nomental health program could possibly prevent or adequately treat. * Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides * A challenge to conventional wisdom about the military ignoring PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide among troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Kieran] takes readers inside the medical arm of military services and civilian government bureaucracies showing how dedicated researchers and administrators trying to reach consensus about how to treat - and perhaps even prevent - serious mental damage and suicide...an intriguing study. * Kirkus Reviews * An impressive work on a vitally important, yet understudied topic that is both illuminating and compelling. For an American society still grappling with the multifaceted problems of endless war, this is an extraordinarily relevant book that deserves a wide readership. * Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University * A significant contribution to understanding the long-term human costs and consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Afoundational work in this field. * Susan Carruthers, University of Warwick * One comes away from Signature Wounds with a healthy respect for the military's attempts to understand and manage [PTSD and TBI], and an even greater contempt for the armchair hawks most responsible for creating them. * New York Review of Books *

A challenge to conventional wisdom about the military ignoring PTSD, traumatic brain injury and suicide among troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Kieran] takes readers inside the medical arm of military services and civilian government bureaucracies showing how dedicated researchers and administrators trying to reach consensus about how to treat - and perhaps even prevent - serious mental damage and suicide...an intriguing study. -Kirkus Reviews

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David Kieran is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the American Studies concentration at Washington & Jefferson College. He is the author of Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory, and editor of The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror.

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