war

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12/22/2020
  

  Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq: The Lessons of Two Failed Wars

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Although the prospects for quickly turning around the ship seem dim, this has been an election year ending in zero, which has often signaled a turning point. The question is, in which direction. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  The War Crime No One Wants to Talk About (Review)

  A new book addresses the glaring oversight of sexual assault and abuse of women as an aspect of war and conflict. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/26/2020
  

  Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm

  by William Astore

  Sadly, it’s a reasonable bet that in the long run, even with Donald Trump as president, America has a better chance of defeating COVID-19 than the virus of forever war. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/22/2020
  

  Looking at War Across 2,500 Years (Review Essay)

  Recent books highlight the vast gap between perceptions and reality in warfare and foreground the gap between people who call for war and who fight it. 

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• 5/24/2020
  

  A Memorial Day Lament for Capt. Wilfred Owen, Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, and the Needless Dead of Foolish Wars

  by Walter G. Moss

  The horrific scale of slaughter in the first World War can be understood, ironically, through the tragedy of a single lost life. Walter Moss considers the deaths of two poets in France.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  3/20/2020
  

  It Doesn’t Have to Be a War

  by Tim Barker

  The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/12/20
  

  How the President Became a Drone Operator

  by Allegra Harpootlian

  From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/8/20
  

  War with Iran is not inevitable — but the U.S. must change course

  by Kelly J. Shannon

  The relationship between the countries, once friends and allies, has soured — because of U.S. aggression.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/9/20
  

  The Global War of Error

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Failure is the new success and that applies as well to the “industrial” part of the military-industrial complex. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/5/20
  

  Defenders of History Take Aim at Trump’s Threat to Strike Iran’s Cultural Sites

  Military attacks against cultural sites are against international law, and the United States has condemned the Islamic State and Taliban for similar destruction.  

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/19/19
  

  How War Targets the Young

  by Andrea Mazzarino

  War on Terror, War on Education

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  10/5/2019
  

  Keep History Flying: Warbirds In The Wake Of The B-17 Crash

  This week, a World War II-era B-17 tragically crashed in Connecticut. As we absorb what happened, it is important to understand the context behind the flight.

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• 9/29/19
  

  Impeachment—a Tool to Prevent War?

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  We should only impeach the President if he starts a new war or uses a nuke.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/19/19
  

  Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing

  by Stephanie Savell

  Since 2015, casualties from explosive remnants of war and abandoned IEDs have been rising rapidly.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  9/14/2019
  

  The Only Way to End ‘Endless War’

  by Stephen Wertheim

  To get serious about stopping endless war, American leaders must do what they most resist: end America’s commitment to armed supremacy and embrace a world of pluralism and peace.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/8/19
  

  The Living Literature of War

  by Nick Turse

  All-too-human stories can be “written” on our bodies as well as documents. 

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• 8/25/19
  

  The Short War Illusion

  by Cathal J. Nolan

  Generals may win battles but they hardly ever win wars, for there really is no such thing as genius in modern war.

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• 6/30/19
  

  Presidential War Powers and Bill Clinton's Battles

  by Paul W. Lovinger

  Reviewing the 1999 attack on Yugoslavia and other belligerent acts: a study of arbitrary power and its supremacy over the Constitution in modern times.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/11/19
  

  What Does It Mean to be "Great" Amidst Global Climate Change

  by David Bromwich

  How can Robert Frost, Graham Greene, Immanuel Kant, and others help us understand values and climate change?