Table of Contents
Violation
How It Happened 10
What They Want 23
Exodus 33
Quarters 39
Classical Conditioning 48
Spoliation of Evidence 52
Shock and Awe 56
The Last Push Before the End 66
Conception
In the Beginning 77
Event Horizon 88
Suck It the Fuck Up, Buttercup 95
Cry "Havoc" 109
Redacted 121
Welcome 125
JRTC 132
Consumption 140
Invasion
Entrenching 153
Indiscriminate 167
Filicide 179
Respite 190
The Way We're Trained 193
Uninspired 204
Ace of Hearts and Clubs 213
What Isn't Mine 217
Rage Against the Machine 229
Monster in a Box 234
The Way We Break 245
Reconstruction 252
Getting Out of Baghdad 257
The Ghosts of Al Kut 263
Two Miles Out 274
Desecration
Homecoming 279
Your Ending, My Beginning 286
Fight Me, Bitch 289
The Warworn's Battle Cry 294
Just Say the Word 305
Interim 308
Tub thumping 314
Belletristic 318
The Thing in My Vagina 323
Interim II 328
The Bat 331
Dirty Little Whore 335
The Breaking Point 341
Interim III 345
Closing 348
Acknowledgments 355
About the Author 359