In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets-Fast Shipping

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Is it possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns?

In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thornyissue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style.

In atop-secret U.S. military experiment, the author was asked to teach Eastern awarenessdisciplines ranging from aikido to meditation to a group of twenty-five Green account chronicles his experiences in the training program and his attemptsto revive traditional warriorship in a technological society.

In Search of the WarriorSpirit explores the nature of war, the meaning of masculinity, and the need for moralvalues in the military. The book includes Heckler’s response to 9/11, his experienceswith the Pentagon and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and his poignant reflectionson the movie Black Hawk Down, which depicts the deaths of two of his trainees.

Inthis revised edition, the author talks movingly of his visits to Afghanistan withNATO and about the Trojan Warrior Project and Marine Warrior Project, relating thetragic events in a war zone and revelatory conversations with both ordinary soldiersand such leaders as the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.