These words were used by a patient of mine who is caught up in the WTU debacle. He carries the very legitimate diagnoses of Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD. He also uses Spice (a synthetic cannibinoid drug) which causes labile moods and paranoid delusions. In the past several weeks he has not been using any substances and his thought processes are reasonably well organized. He often pleads that he be allowed to deploy again because during his previous deployments he knew who he was and what his role in life was meant to be. Now he feels like he is “nothing,” has no purpose. Even though he continues to wear the uniform, he is no longer a soldier and he does not want to benefits that he would get from an “medical retirement.” He states he would be better off if he had been killed in Afghanistan because the Army has taken everything from him. He states they tell him he is dangerous, the cadre in the WTU, and he does not understand that they are afraid of him because they do not understand his anger and distress. It was in this context that he stated “the true war is fought on the homefront.” He said Eisenhower said this. I would not find the exact quote attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower. It may have been said in regard to Ike’s famous speech in 1961 about the threat of the military industrial complex. There are numerous references about the stress and distress of the family members who suffer through the deployments of their spouses, fathers or mothers or friends. In fact, the hardships on the homefront during WWII has been well documented. But in the situation of my patient he is being very specific to his own situation, and that of hundreds, if not thousands, of his fellow soldiers: the battle for their identity which takes place entirely on the homefront.