The Soldier, the Civilian, Is a Deeply Stereotypical Figure

The US does not fight its wars on its own soil. And so there's a whole imaginary of war in this country in which it is soldiers who experience and know war because they go way far away to fight them. So what does that mean? There's so much public conversation and scholarship that has been concerned with the stereotype of the soldier, whether it says the Rambo-type figure or just the sort of sense of the soldier as a citizen that is not understood. But it really struck me that this figure of the civilian is a deeply stereotyped figure as well.