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Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"An exposae of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war"--
"From the acclaimed veteran political analyst, a searing new exposé of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war “No one is better at exposing the dynamics of media and politics that keep starting and continuing wars. War Made Invisible will provide the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately...
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Publisher
Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are these simple accidentsas the “bloody fool” theory has itor are they inevitable? The psychologist Norman F. Dixon argues that there is a pattern to inept generalship, and locates this pattern within the very act of creating armies in the first place, which...
Author
Publisher
Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan examines the history of the United States through an alternate lens that emphasizes our history of slavery, indigenous genocide, and militarist imperialism to present a more balanced view of the American story.
Publisher
DEFA-Stiftung
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Deutsch
Description
Two best friends are forced to leave school and join the army for Hitler, and find themselves on opposite sides when one becomes an outstanding soldier and the other wonders why he is fighting a senseless war. Bonus features include biographies and a short film.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
"Rosa Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war from an unconventional perspective—that of a former top Pentagon official who is the daughter of two anti-war protesters and a human rights activist married to an Army Green Beret. Her experiences lead her to an urgent warning: When the boundaries around war disappear, we risk destroying America’s founding values and the laws and institutions we’ve built—and undermining the international...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--
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