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| Author | : Alex Lubin |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2021-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520297415 |
An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment: homeland, security, privacy, torture, and drone. Alex Lubin synthesizes nearly two decades of United States war-making against terrorism by asking how the War on Terror has changed American politics and society, and how the War on Terror draws on historical myths about American national and imperial identity. From the PATRIOT Act to the hit show Homeland, from Edward Snowden to Guantanamo Bay, and from 9/11 memorials to Trumpism, this succinct book connects America's political economy and international relations to our contemporary culture at every turn.
| Author | : Ian Lustick |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2006-09-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780812239836 |
"Ian Lustick has written a brave, forceful, and very valuable book. I wish that every politician promising to 'defend' America would read what he has to say. Failing that, the voters should."—James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly
| Author | : Navin A. Bapat |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0190061456 |
Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes. Given this minimal risk, why does the U.S. continue expending lives and treasure to fight the global war on terror? In Monsters to Destroy, Navin A. Bapat argues that the war on terror provides the U.S. a cover for its efforts to expand and preserve American control over global energy markets. To gain dominance over these markets, the U.S. offered protection to states critical in the extraction, sale, and transportation of energy from their "terrorist" internal and external enemies. However, since the U.S. was willing to protect these states in perpetuity, the leaders of these regimes had no incentive to disarm their terrorists. This inaction allowed terrorists to transition into more powerful and virulent insurgencies, leading the protected states to chart their own courses and ultimately break with U.S. foreign policy objectives. Bapat provides a sweeping look at how the loss of influence over these states has accelerated the decline of U.S. economic and military power, locking it into a permanent war for its own economic security.
| Author | : Paul Rogers |
| Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2004-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Radical critique of the 'war on terror' by leading media commentator and peace scholar.
| Author | : Council on Foreign Relations |
| Publisher | : Council on Foreign Relations Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jean Bethke Elshtain |
| Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2003-04-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780465019106 |
The University of Chicago political philosopher applies "just war theory" to the war on terror and concludes that pacifism is an inappropriate response to the events of September 11, 2001. 35,000 first printing.
| Author | : Richard A. Clarke |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2008-12-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 184737588X |
Richard Clarke has been one of America's foremost experts on counterterrorism measures for more than two decades. He has served under four presidents from both parties, beginning in Ronald Reagan's State Department becoming America's first Counter-terrorism Czar under Bill Clinton and remaining for the first two years of George W. Bush's administration. He has seen every piece of intelligence on Al-Qaeda from the beginning; he was in the Situation Room on September 11th and he knows exactly what has taken place under the United State's new Department of Homeland Security. Through gripping, thriller-like scenes, he tells the full story for the first time and explains what the Bush Administration are doing.
| Author | : Michel Chossudovsky |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 |
| ISBN | : 9780973714715 |
In this new and expanded edition of Michel Chossudovsky's 2002 best-seller, the author blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". This expanded edition, which includes twelve new chapters focuses on the use of 9/11 as a pretext for the invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, the militarisation of justice and law enforcement and the repeal of democracy. According to Chossudovsky, the "war on terrorism" is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence apparatus. The "war on terrorism" is a war of conquest. Globalisation is the final march to the "New World Order", dominated by Wall Street and the U.S. military-industrial complex. September 11, 2001 provides a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington's agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within America the institutions of the Homeland Security State. Chossudovsky peels back layers of rhetoric to reveal a complex web of deceit aimed at luring the American people and the rest of the world into accepting a military solution which threatens the future of humanity.
| Author | : Paul Rogers |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2013-04-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0745645623 |
The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray – the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations of leaders coming to the fore. Well over 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, many tens of thousands have been detained without trial, and torture, prisoner abuse and rendition have sullied the reputation of the United States and its coalition partners. Why We’re Losing the War on Terror examines the reasons for the failure, focusing on American political and military attitudes, the impact of 9/11, the fallacy of a New American Century, the role of oil and, above all, the consummate failure to go beyond a narrow western view of the world. More significantly, it argues that the disaster of the war may have a huge if unexpected bonus. Its very failure will make it possible to completely re-think western attitudes to global security, moving towards a sustainable policy that will be much more effective in addressing the real threats to global security – the widening socio-economic divide and climate change.
| Author | : Michael Scheuer |
| Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2004-06-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1597973084 |
Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger. According to the author, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetor.
