Lorenzo Zambernardi is Assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna (Forlì). He holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Parma. He is the author of Counterinsurgency Impossible Trilemma (Washington Quarterly 2010) and The Impotence of Power: Morgenthau’s Critique of American Intervention in Vietnam (Review of International Studies 2011). He is currently completing a monograph on Western attitudes toward soldiers’ death.