war on terror

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  1/7/2021
  

  Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

  by Nick Turse

  Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror. 

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 2 – Is There Even a "Trump Doctrine"?

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Many Americans have bought Donald Trump's claim that he seeks to extricate the U.S. from "endless wars," including in Afghanistan. Viewed in the context of his other foreign policy actions, this claim is nonsensical, and undermines the work being done in support of global democracy and American interests.

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• 12/20/2020
  

  Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 1 – Abandoning a Vulnerable Ally in the War on Terror

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Donald Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan misrepresents the scope and costs of the American mission and ignores the high stakes of failure for both Afghans and American security, according to a scholar of the War on Terror. 

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Trump Claims Credit for Defeating ISIS. Pentagon Documents Show Otherwise

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  A historian and scholar of the War on Terror says that Trump's claims of credit in the fight against ISIS are hot air. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  9/23/2020
  

  Would Biden or Trump End America's Forever Wars?

  Stephen Wertheim questions whether politicians will heed the overwhelming public desire to scale back military intervention and get the Pentagon's spending under control. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/29/2020
  

  C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists

  The uncensored memoir makes the claim that torture interrupted and undermined effective interrogations by other means. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/26/2020
  

  The Coming of a Social-Distancing Version of War

  by Danny Sjursen

  With U.S. troops still fighting in Somalia, former West Point history instructor Danny Sjursen takes a deep dive into the future of American war in a Covid-19 world.

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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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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  5/13/2020
  

  FBI 'Mistakenly Reveals Saudi Official Linked' to 9/11 Attackers

  Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/12/2020
  

  Celebrated to Death: Memorial Day Is Killing Us

  by Erik Edstrom

  It should be our civic responsibility to change the forces that guide this nation. We must redefine what patriotism and national security truly stand for. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/26/2020
  

  Judgment Day for the National Security State

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Deferred for far too long, Judgment Day may at long last have arrived for the national security state.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/17/20
  

  Can Historical Analysis Help Reduce Military Deaths By Suicide?

  by Jeffrey Smith, Michael Doidge, Ryan Hanoa, and B. Christopher Frueh

  A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

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• 10/13/19
  

  The Original War on Terror

  by Eric Laursen

  A review of Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli, Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe.

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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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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/19/19
  

  New Interactive Tool Maps the American War on Terror

  by Stephanie Savell

  In general, the American public has largely ignored these post-9/11 wars and their costs. But the vastness of Washington’s counterterror activities suggests, now more than ever, that it’s time to pay attention.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9-4-18
  

  The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!

  by Nick Turse

  A Simple Equation Proves That the U.S. Armed Forces Have Triumphed in the War on Terror

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1-9-18
  

  Win the war on terror with Lansdale's Cold-War era 'friendly persuasion'

  by Max Boot

  Ground troops aren't the answer. America needs a new generation of advisers who practice patience and build trust with friendly but weak regimes.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1-4-18
  

  Mapping a World From Hell

  by Tom Engelhardt

  76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6-7-16
  

  Crimes of the War on Terror

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Should George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Others Be Jailed?

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• SOURCE: The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
  12-29-14
  

  Private Mercenaries and the War on Terror in American Foreign Policy

  by Jeremy Kuzmarov

  A blueprint for American strategy in the War on Terror was the 1959-1975 secret war in Laos, where the CIA worked with hundreds of civilian contractors