While on a near-future mission in Afghanistan, a soldier must scrounge up a quorum and receive enough upvotes from the American public before he can execute an important kill.

An American veteran who watched his friend drown in a field of excrement in Vietnam drives in circles around the lake in his hometown ruminating on how he might have saved his friend, won a Silver Star for valor, and made his father proud.

An airman grieving his wife’s death worries that a superior’s carelessness may harm a young recruit, who has been traumatized by a hazing ritual.

A sergeant and two privates are stranded in the desert after a bomb blast hits their convoy, but soon are approached by another survivor of the blasts who is not what she seems.

A weary healer seeks to leave her warrior wife, her village, and a life endlessly tainted by war.

As per tradition in her country, a young girl of a mysterious Order is chosen to bear the launch codes of sere missiles embedded in her heart. To activate the missiles, the president of her country must personally cut open her chest to extract the code capsule.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.

A group of Marines recall their horrifying memories of fighting on the Pacific front of World War II, while a journalist attempts to glorify their experiences for his readers.

A war photographer comes face to face with the senseless violence and death of the Spanish Civil War after spending time in the trenches with soldiers and decides he cannot stomach it.

A Navy SEAL in Afghanistan asks the Virgin Mary for a miracle out on the battlefield.