Sebastian Junger on war (Interview) (Interview‪)‬

While bestselling author Sebastian Junger was on a North American tour earlier this year to promote the release of his newest book, War, a powerful first-person account of his embedded experience with a U.S. combat unit in Afghanistan, Esprit de Corps publisher Scott Taylor interviewed him about the intensity involved in researching such a dangerous subject. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. EdeC: First of all, allow me to commend you for producing an amazing account of your embedded reporting experience. You were truly in the thick of things, and you personally experienced a tremendous amount of combat during your tours of the Korengal Valley. That said, military units are close-knit by nature, resentful of outsiders and particularly distrustful of the media. You obviously broke through those barriers, and I wonder if there was a singular event or moment when you realized you were accepted by the men of Battle Company?