The thought that deploying personnel might incur some form of Moral Injury is unsurprising. In fact, it is rather obvious. The thought that someone might be unaffected by killing other human beings and destroying their property, that someone would be indifferent to a personal encounter with civil chaos and endemic poverty (such as in Somalia), political violence and political “gangsterism” (such as in Cambodia), is actually more surprising. In fact, it is worrying. The idea that observing the outcomes of genocide and ethnic cleansing
