Editorial Team: Given the legacy of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the transatlantic community faces a new and largely silent threat: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). On both sides of the Atlantic, societies need to face this new challenge in order to prevent additional tragedy on the home front.
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Editor Richard Horton defends the results of a Lancet study on the Iraqi death toll, offering recommendations for new policy implementation. The Lancet survey reported the number of Iraqi deaths as 250% higher than before the U.S. invasion.
Horton urges the international community to use the deteriorating security situation in Iraq as a call to reconfigure its foreign policy. Human security -
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