Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War
(Sprache: Englisch)
If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book provides a...
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If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions about American conduct in the world. This book provides a list of those questions and even ventures some answers in the form of key lessons from Iraq. The idea of assembling lessons as tools for avoiding the next war is less of a stretch than it seems, given the group of writers represented here. They include a Nobel Prize-winning economist; the former chief UN weapons inspector; and an Iraqi American whose weekly conversations with his relatives have given him a grim education on what living through a war to spread democracy is like on the ground. Also here is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner who traces the recurring American bad habit of starting wars as tryouts for big ideas. All societies need a ready reference handbook that draws some lines around its conduct of war. The Bush administration has produced a radical overhaul of the U.S. manual. Given the Iraq experience, it is urgent that we reject this version and think again. This book is a manageably sized, accessibly written, affordable compilation of key points that most urgently need to be rethought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War “
Purposes1. The Dangerous Leap: Preventive War by Neta Crawford2. American Imperialism: Enabler of War by Chalmers Johnson3. "An Untidy Cost of Freedom"? Spreading Democracy by Military Force by Anas Shallal4. Ideas Floating Free: War as Demonstration Model by Frances Fitzgerald5. A Motive Hiding in Plain Sight: War for Oil by Michael T. Klare6. To Avoid Future Iraq-Style Quagmires, Reduce U.S. Global Military Presence by Ivan ElandWays and Means7. Hidden Wounds and Accounting Tricks: Disguising the True Costs by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes8. Lies, Spies, and Legends: The Politicizing of Intelligence by John Prados9. New Frontiers of Media Manipulation by Norman Solomon10. America's Slide: From Leadership to Isolation by Jeffrey Laurenti11. Inspections or Invasion: Lessons From Iraq by Hans Blix12. Coalition of the Coerced by Phyllis BennisCollateral Damage13. Monarchic Pretensions: The War Power Grab by Fred Barbash14. Torture No More by Aziz Huq15. The Shadow Army: Privatization by Janine Wedel16. Invitation to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq by William D. Hartung17. The (Iraq) War on Civil Liberties by Jules LobelCoda18. War for Peace by C.K. Williams
Autoren-Porträt
Miriam Pemberton, is Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Peace and Security Editor of its Foreign Policy in Focus project. She leads the team that produces the annual "Unified Security Budget for the United States." William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the author of And Weapons for All (HarperCollins 1994) and How Much Did You Make on the War, Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the George W. Bush Administration (Nation Books 2005).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2008, 149 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Miriam Pemberton, William D. Hartung
- Verlag: Paradigm Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1594514984
- ISBN-13: 9781594514982
Sprache:
Englisch
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