Making Endless War

Author : Brian Cuddy,Victor Kattan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472903191

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Making Endless War by Brian Cuddy,Victor Kattan Pdf

Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts have been particularly significant in the shaping and attempted remaking of international law from 1945 right through to the present day. This carefully curated collection of essays by lawyers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political geographers of war explores the significance of these two conflicts, including their impact on the politics and culture of the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of America. The volume foregrounds attempts to develop legal rationales for the continued waging of war after 1945 by moving beyond explaining the end of war as a legal institution, and toward understanding the attempted institutionalization of endless war.

Author : Larry P. Goodson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295801582

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Afghanistan's Endless War by Larry P. Goodson Pdf

Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.

Author : Ralph Peters
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811708234

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Endless War by Ralph Peters Pdf

Endless War features controversial strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular, raising perceptive, often shocking questions others fear to ask. In a sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim military triumphs a thousand years ago through the turning of the tide between East and West to the brutal unconventional struggles of today and tomorrow, former Military Intelligence officer Peters extends his successful series of books on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness. Endless War engages the toughest security issues of our time, including: Does our Afghan war make sense? Can we win? Do we even have a strategy? ; Has flawed military planning left our troops as virtual hostages in combat zones? ; Can Israel survive? What would an Iranian nuclear arsenal mean for the world? ; Is Islam a "religion of peace," or has the war between Islam and Western civilization continued virtually without interruption for almost fourteen centuries? ; Why doesn't the greatest superpower in history win more often? Are we our own worst enemies? ; Have we lost our sense of warfare's reality? Why don't we fight to win? ; Do terrorist prisoners really deserve better treatment than American citizens? ; What's the true price of striking serious history courses from our schools? ; Who does deeper damage to the United States, our violent enemies or arrogant ruling elite? In powerful prose combining clarity with passion, Ralph Peters continues to shape our country's military and strategic thought, while standing up for our troops and American values. No book on strategy or foreign affairs this year will be fiercer or more brutally honest. As ever more dark clouds gather over the world, this is a voice we need!--Publisher description.

Author : Rachel Redhead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326439088

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The Endless War - Part One by Rachel Redhead Pdf

3059CE. Corporal Jackie Helfer of Bravo Squadron stumbles upon the secret behind a secret specialist unit that her people, the Erocan Alliance, is deploying against their sworn enemy, the Siannan Union. What she discovers will change her world forever as she is recruited on the battlefield to join this new unit. Waking up she is shocked to discover that she is no longer a human, now she is a vampire soldier fighting a much bigger campaign and she is now classified as Agent Gehenna. Now she must unlearn all that she knew so that she can become one of the best weapons her side has. From seizing key locations, to investigating enemy assets Agents Gehenna and Eve must find a way to end the thousand-year long endless war that has been raging for almost as long as Eve's been around. This book is the first of three parts.

Author : Rachel Redhead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326512231

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The Endless War - Part Two by Rachel Redhead Pdf

3060CE And the dance goes on... Eve is MIA and Gehenna must step up as leader of the elite specialist unit. The war rages on and new blood is needed if the Erocan Alliance is to win the endless war. Enter Demon, Albion, Vixen and Wrath, new volunteers to join the newly christened Alpha Company. New missions and new dangers abound on all sides. The war encompasses the lives of many. Governing their daily lives, it is a beast that devours healthy people. Deadly missions are a normal part of Gehenna and Nadir's lives as they are sent out on the most dangerous and lowest survivable missions. Back at base it's not much better as the pressures of command start to get to Preston Redmond. Also Agent Pixie, part team mascot and part recon specialist starts to remember the horrors of her past. And a conspiracy to betray the Alliance, borne out of fear of the true nature of Alpha Company, bears a horrifying outcome that will leave everyone wondering if it's all been worth it...

Author : Rachel Redhead
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326512255

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The Endless War - Part Three by Rachel Redhead Pdf

The Wheel Turns... 2015 CE Charity Michaels makes a decision that will have profound consequences for the rest of history... 2042 CE Kirsty Stanford becomes a vampire, she is later known as Agent Eve... 2049 CE The war starts... 3061 CE The war ends? Don't bet on it... Find out how events were set in motion that led to the longest and most bloody war in human history. Find out who actually started the war and how. Find out how Agent Gehenna will alter the destiny of billions. Also learn the tragic tale of Elise Austerlitz...

Author : David Keen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064744538

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Endless War? by David Keen Pdf

"Endless War? casts a critical light on the real motives behind war and terror. David Keen explores how winning war is rarely an end in itself; rather, war often provides cover for wider political and economic games in which strengthening the enemy is either irrelevant or positively useful. Keen devises a radical framework for analysing an unending war project where violence creates its own legitimacy and where the 'war on terror' is only the latest extension of a Cold War project."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James P. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066035984

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The Endless War by James P. Harrison Pdf

Author : Carl Boggs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742527727

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Imperial Delusions by Carl Boggs Pdf

In this hard-hitting critique, Carl Boggs argues that the United States is dominated by a new militarism, one that has become more potent and menacing since 9/11. He skillfully explores the origins and development of this new militarism and show its devastating effects on American society.

Author : Adwok Nyaba
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789987083879

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South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State by Adwok Nyaba Pdf

South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State is likely to achieve its objective of stimulating debate about the future of South Sudan as a viable polity. The hope is that readers, through the debate generated by this book, will rediscover the commonality that marked the struggle for freedom, justice, and fraternity, and abandon ethnic ideologies as a means of constructing a modern state in South Sudan. South Sudan: Elites, Ethnicity, Endless Wars and the Stunted State is a must-read for South Sudanese intellectuals who want to reshape the socioeconomic and political development trajectory.

Author : James Risen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780544341418

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Pay Any Price by James Risen Pdf

War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses -- and until this book, it has worked very hard to cover them up. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR authorized the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. Presidents Bush and Obama now must face their own reckoning. Power corrupts, but it is endless war that corrupts absolutely.

Author : David Vine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520385689

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The United States of War by David Vine Pdf

2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

Author : Mark Philip Bradley,Marilyn B. Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0198043023

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Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars by Mark Philip Bradley,Marilyn B. Young Pdf

Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's superb group of renowned contributors spans the generations--including those who were active during wartime, along with scholars conducting research in Vietnamese sources and uncovering new sources in the United States, former Soviet Union, China, and Eastern and Western Europe. Ranging in format from top-down reconsiderations of critical decision-making moments in Washington, Hanoi, and Saigon, to microhistories of the war that explore its meanings from the bottom up, these essays comprise the most up-to-date collection of scholarship on the controversial historiography of the Vietnam Wars.

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9780553393934

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America's War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich Pdf

A critical assessment of America's foreign policy in the Middle East throughout the past four decades evaluates and connects regional engagements since 1990 while revealing their massive costs.

Author : Rachel Maddow
Publisher : Crown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307461001

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Drift by Rachel Maddow Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.