It was an uncanny moment. I had just begun reading Elizabeth Samet’s Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). In it, Samet argues that Americans’ experience with war in the late modern period—Korea an undeclared war; Vietnam, lost; Iraq an embarrassment; and Afghanistan a More

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