Seriously Not All Right - Five Wars in Ten Years (Hardcover)

For more than a decade, Ron Capps, in the capacity as both a senior military intelligence officer and as an observer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to several of the most devastating scenes of atrocity, human violence, and genocide the world has seen in the last 20 years. From the killing fields of Kosovo, the brutal cruelties perpetrated over the span of several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Aghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in the reality of ethnic cleansing he saw in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence gatherer and reporter but was diplomatically restrained from taking preventative action in these conflicts. The accumulation of these experiences, combined with the helplessness of his role as bystander, propelled him into a deep depression and a long bout with PTSD, which nearly caused him to take his own life. Seriously Not All Right is a soldier's memoir that provides a unique perspective of a noncombatant yet high-ranking military officer who suffered (and continues to suffer) from PTSD equally with those who drew weapons in battle. His story, and that of his recovery, is an inspiration and a sobering reminder of the cost of all wars, even those that appeared in the media and to the general public as merely sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events.