MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewJunger argues persuasively that postcombat psychological problems must be understood as a problem of reintegrating to society on such terms, at least as much as they are due to the trauma of war ... The brief introduction to Tribe is a micro-masterpiece in which Junger sketches the discontent of bourgeois life ... A more serious limitation of the book, in my view, derives from Junger’s reliance on evolutionary psychology for his explanatory framework. The just-so stories that various professors have offered, after imagining what survival on the Pleistocene savannas might have required, cannot compete with the kind of material gathered by a journalist who is alive to the human drama unfolding before his eyes in a firefight.
