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• 1. Comparative counterfactual analysis and the 2003 Iraq War--
• 2. Leadership, political context(s) and the Iraq War--
• 3. Democratic national security advisers--
• 4. Domestic and congressional politics--
• 5. American intelligence failures and miscalculations--
• 6. Societal pressures and public opinion--
• 7. International politics, global WMD consensus and UN power balancing--
• 8. Hussein's mistakes, miscalculations and misperceptions--
• 9. Summary and implications--
• 10. Conclusion.
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The almost universally accepted explanation for the Iraq War is very clear and consistent - the US decision to attack Saddam Hussein's regime on March 19, 2003 was a product of the ideological agenda, misguided priorities, intentional deceptions and grand strategies of President George W. Bush and prominent 'neoconservatives' and 'unilateralists' on his national security team. Despite the widespread appeal of this version of history, Frank P. Harvey argues that it remains an unsubstantiated assertion and an underdeveloped argument without a logical foundation. His book aims to provide a historically grounded account of the events and strategies which pushed the US-UK coalition towards war. The analysis is based on both factual and counterfactual evidence, combines causal mechanisms derived from multiple levels of analysis and ultimately confirms the role of path dependence and momentum as a much stronger explanation for the sequence of decisions that led to war.
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• 1. Introduction: Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?
• 2. Explaining the War in Iraq
• 3. Ideas, American Grand Strategy, and the War in Iraq
• 4. Ideas and Entrepreneurs: A Constructivist Explanation of the Iraq War
• 5. Explaining the Iraq War: The Israel Lobby Theory
• 6. Neoconservatism and American Hegemony
• 7. Blood for Oil, in Iraq and Elsewhere
• 8. Oil and the Decision to Invade Iraq
• 9. Tony Blair Nurtures the Special Relationship
• 10. In Pursuit of Primacy: Why the United States Invaded Iraq.
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This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not as urgent as the Bush administration presented it and that Saddam Hussein was not involved with either Al Qaeda or 9/11. Many consider the war a mistake and question why Iraq was invaded. A majority of Americans now believe that the public were deliberately misled by the Bush administration in order to bolster support for the war. Public doubt has been strengthened by the growing number of critical scholarly analyses and in-depth journalistic investigations about the invasion that suggest the administration was not candid about its reasons for wanting to take action against Iraq. This volume begins with a survey of private scholarly views about the war's origins, then assesses the current state of debate by organising the best recent thinking by foreign policy and international relations experts on why the US invaded Iraq. The book covers a broad range of approaches to explaining Iraq - the role of the uncertainty of intelligence, cognitive biases, ideas, Israel, and oil, highlighting areas of both agreement and disagreement. This book will be of much interest to students of the Iraq War, US foreign and security policy, strategic studies, Middle Eastern politics and IR/Security Studies in general.
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• PART I: INTRODUCTION The New International Environment US Policies: Origins and Objectives Counterinsurgency and US Adaptation to Fourth Generation War PART II: CASE STUDIES The Philippines: 1898-1901 Vietnam: 1945-73 Bosnia: 1991-95 Afghanistan: 2001 Iraq: 2003 PART III: CONCLUSION The Perils of Intervention.
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This book is a study of the major US military interventions in unconventional war, four occurring while the US was a superpower in the post-war WW II period, and one in the Philippines in 1898. It critiques the case for intervention on the most vital grounds, security, and the effectiveness of implementation of the intervention. An introductory section analyzes recent changes in the international system, and a summary of U.S. strategy, response, and policy, provide a framework for analysis. The detailed case studies allow a cost-benefit evaluation of the advisability and success of historical US interventions in the type of war the US is most likely to encounter in the future. The outcomes of past decisions to intervene are, on balance, not encouraging.
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• Introduction
• Prelude: the United States and Iraq before the Iraq War
• Public opinion on the war in Iraq
• Partisanship
• The war in Iraq: a spillover to other opinions on foreign policy?
• The impact of public opinion on Iraq policy
• Broader issues concerning public opinion.

"A substantial contribution to understanding the role of public opinion and the news media during the Iraq War. Equally impressive, it effectively puts the domestic context of U.S. policy in historical perspective, making the book useful to historians as well as to political scientists."---Ralph B. Levering, Davidson College""American Public Opinion on the Iraq War" sets out to chart against a detailed account of the war a nuanced assessment of how public opinion on the conflict evolved, the partisan differences that emerged, how the issue affected other areas of foreign policy opinion, and the limits of public opinion on policy. It succeeds at all of this, and it does so in a manner that is at once informative, inherently interesting, and exceptionally easy to read."---Randolph M. Siverson, University of California, DavisOle R. Holsti explores the extent to which changes in public opinion reflected the vigorous public relations efforts of the Bush administration to gain support for the war and the partisanship marking debates over policies toward Iraq. Holsti investigates the ways in which the Iraq experience has led substantial numbers of Americans to reconsider their nation's proper international role, and he assesses the impact that public opinion has had on policymakers. Significantly, Holsti places his findings in a broader context to address the role of public opinion and of the media in democratic governance.
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Chronicles the Shiite exile's effort to enlist the United States into helping to remove Saddam Hussein from power, documenting his coup attempts, engagements with policymakers, and ill-fated ambition to become an overseer of U.S. interests in the Middle East.

• Contents: Sean Cardinal O'Malley: Preface - Roland J. Teske: Foreword - Craig J. N. de Paulo/Patrick A. Messina/Daniel P. Tompkins: Introduction: Confessions, Contentions and the Lust for Power - Patrick A. Messina/Craig J. N. de Paulo: The Influence of Augustine on the Development of Just War Theory - Craig J. N. de Paulo: The First Symposium on Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - Craig J. N. de Paulo/Patrick A. Messina: The Second Symposium on Just War Theory, the 2003 War in Iraq and the Significance of the Papacy - Dieter Blumenwitz: The Future World Order: The Implications of the War in Iraq on International Law - Daniel P. Tompkins: The Question of Just War Theory and the Augustinian Caveat Praeemptor.
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Augustinian Just War Theory and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Confessions, Contentions, and the Lust for Power details two major symposia on the topic of Christian (Augustinian) just war theory, its strengths and weaknesses, and its controversial application to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The renowned participants represent some of the most distinguished philosophers, theologians, and foreign policy makers in the world, including John D. Caputo, Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., Joseph Margolis, Cardinal Sean O'Malley (Preface), Roland J. Teske, S.J. (Foreword), and Frederick Van Fleteren. By intersecting philosophy, theology, and foreign policy, this book greatly contributes to the global discussion of the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it provides the foundation for analyzing the present war in Libya as well as future conflicts.
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• The recurring importance of prisoner and detainee operations
• U.S. programs for German prisoners in World War II
• Korean war prisoner programs
• Prisoner and detainee operations in Vietnam
• Detainee operations in Iraq
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Appendix: The legal source of MNF-I's authority to intern for security.

This report finds parallels in U.S. prisoner and detainee operations in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq: underestimation of the number to be held, hasty scrambling for resources, and inadequate doctrine and policy. Later, attempts to educate and influence prisoners and detainees are often made. The authors recommend that detailed doctrine should be in place prior to detention and that detainees should be surveyed when first detained.
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• The recurring importance of prisoner and detainee operations
• U.S. programs for German prisoners in World War II
• Korean war prisoner programs
• Prisoner and detainee operations in Vietnam
• Detainee operations in Iraq
• Conclusions and recommendations
• Appendix: The legal source of MNF-I's authority to intern for security.

This report finds parallels in U.S. prisoner and detainee operations in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq: underestimation of the number to be held, hasty scrambling for resources, and inadequate doctrine and policy. Later, attempts to educate and influence prisoners and detainees are often made. The authors recommend that detailed doctrine should be in place prior to detention and that detainees should be surveyed when first detained.
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• PREFACE-- INTRODUCTION EAST: THE IMPROBABLE COUNTRY AND THE GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES-- INTRODUCTION WEST: THE UNITED STATES, SADDAM, AND AL QAEDA, 1970S-2000.
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From journalistic accounts like Fiasco and Imperial Life in the Emerald City to insider memoirs like Jawbreaker and Three Cups of Tea , the books about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could fill a library. But each explores a narrow slice of a whole: two wars launched by a single president as part of a single foreign policy. Now noted historian Terry H. Anderson examines them together, in a single comprehensive overview. Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told advisor Karl Rove, "I am here for a reason, and this is how we're going to be judged." Anderson provides this judgment in this sweeping, authoritative account of Bush's War on Terror and his twin interventions. He begins with historical surveys of Iraq and Afghanistan known respectively as "the improbable country" and "the graveyard of empires, " and he examines U.S. policies toward those and other nations in the Middle East from the 1970s to 2000. Then Anderson focuses on the Bush Administration, carrying us through such events as the terrorist's attacks of 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and the siege of Tora Bora, the "Axis of Evil" speech, the invasion of Iraq and capture of Baghdad, and the eruption of insurgency in Iraq. He ranges from RPGs slamming into Abrams tanks to cabinet meetings, vividly portraying both soldiers in the field and such policymakers as Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Anderson describes the counter-insurgency strategy embodied by the "surge" in Iraq, and the simultaneous revival of the Taliban. He concludes with an assessment of the prosecution of the wars in the first years of Barack Obama's presidency. Carefully researched and briskly narrated, Bush's Wars provides the single-volume, balanced history that we have been waiting for.
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• Pt. I. New York. Introduction : the siege
• The quiet assassin
• Afghanistanism
• The bride of the world
• Majaddara
• pt. II. Honeymoon in Baghdad. The benefits of civilization
• "Iraq has no cuisine"
• Becoming human
• The movement of democratic lovers
• The sumer land
• The flavor of freedom
• Iftar alone
• Chicken soup for the Iraqi soul
• The devil's Hijab
• The free one
• Even a strong person can ask for peace
• pt. III. Beirut. Republic of Foul
• The green revolution
• Death in Beirut
• The war of the kitchen
• The operation
• pt. IV. Eat, pray, war. Fear and shopping
• Mighli
• Cooking with Umm Hassane
• Supper of stones
• pt. V. God, Nasrallah, and the suburbs. There are no Shiites in this neighborhood
• My previous experience in warfare.

American Book Award WinnerWinner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book)James Beard Foundation Award NomineeBNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction A luminous portrait of life in the Middle East, "Day of Honey "weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival. In the fall of 2003, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. Over the next six years, while living in Baghdad and Beirut, she broke bread with Shiites and Sunnis, warlords and refugees, matriarchs and mullahs. "Day of Honey "is her memoir of the hunger for food and friendship--a communion that feeds the soul as much as the body in times of war. Reporting from occupied Baghdad, Ciezadlo longs for normal married life. She finds it in Beirut, her husband's hometown, a city slowly recovering from years of civil war. But just as the young couple settles into a new home, the bloodshed they escaped in Iraq spreads to Lebanon and reawakens the terrible specter of sectarian violence. In lucid, fiercely intelligent prose, Ciezadlo uses food and the rituals of eating to illuminate a vibrant Middle East that most Americans never see. We get to know people like Roaa, a determined young Kurdish woman who dreams of exploring the world, only to see her life under occupation become confined to the kitchen; Abu Rifaat, a Baghdad book lover who spends his days eavesdropping in the ancient city's legendary cafes; Salama al-Khafaji, a soft-spoken dentist who eludes assassins to become Iraq's most popular female politician; and Umm Hassane, Ciezadlo's sardonic Lebanese mother-in-law, who teaches her to cook rare family recipes--which are included in a mouthwatering appendix of Middle Eastern comfort food. As bombs destroy her new family's ancestral home and militias invade her Beirut neighborhood, Ciezadlo illuminates the human cost of war with an extraordinary ability to anchor the rhythms of daily life in a larger political and historical context. From forbidden Baghdad book clubs to the oldest recipes in the world, Ciezadlo takes us inside the Middle East at a historic moment when hope and fear collide. "Day of Honey "is a brave and compassionate portrait of civilian life during wartime--a moving testament to the power of love and generosity to transcend the misery of war.
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• Fourth of July : a tradition of service in San Antonio
• War stories : case studies of combat deployment
• Home again : early experiences of post-deployment stress
• Of men and messages : how everyday cultural influences affect living with PTSD
• Clinical histories : from soldier's heart to PTSD
• Under pressure : military socialization and stigma
• Embattled : the politics of PTSD in VA mental health care
• Navigation : identity and social relations in treatment seeking and recovery.

For many of the 1.6 million U.S. service members who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, the trip home is only the beginning of a longer journey. Many undergo an awkward period of readjustment to civilian life after long deployments. Some veterans may find themselves drinking too much, unable to sleep or waking from unspeakable dreams, lashing out at friends and loved ones. Over time, some will struggle so profoundly that they eventually are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD). Both heartbreaking and hopeful, Fields of Combat tells the story of how American veterans and their families navigate the return home. Following a group of veterans and their their personal stories of war, trauma, and recovery, Erin P. Finley illustrates the devastating impact PTSD can have on veterans and their families. Finley sensitively explores issues of substance abuse, failed relationships, domestic violence, and even suicide and also challenges popular ideas of PTSD as incurable and permanently debilitating. Drawing on rich, often searing ethnographic material, Finley examines the cultural, political, and historical influences that shape individual experiences of PTSD and how its sufferers are perceived by the military, medical personnel, and society at large. Despite widespread media coverage and public controversy over the military's response to wounded and traumatized service members, debate continues over how best to provide treatment and compensation for service-related disabilities. Meanwhile, new and highly effective treatments are revolutionizing how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides trauma care, redefining the way PTSD itself is understood in the process. Carefully and compassionately untangling each of these conflicts, Fields of Combat reveals the very real implications they have for veterans living with PTSD and offers recommendations to improve how we care for this vulnerable but resilient population.
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• Patrick Amersbach
• Margaret Armstrong
• Nancy L. Caldwell
• Maria Cerrato
• Peter Charest
• Laura Flood
• Patricia C. Hasen
• Jerry R. Hill
• Linda Miller
• Karen Niemantsverdriet-McDonald
• Sandy Peters
• Susan Herron Thompson
• Jane Valentine
• Carol Whitesides.

Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton, professional nurses have been involved in caring for the sick and wounded in combat situations. This book contains the accounts of 14 nurses who served in the U.S. military nurse corps during the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars. These men and women describe how they found themselves serving during wartime, the soldiers they cared for, the professionals they worked with and the impact they made in their patients' lives. These varied accounts attest to the tremendous impact this profession has on the lives of individual soldiers and the health of armies at large.
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• Chapter 1: A Home and a Country
• Chapter 2: The Call
• Chapter 3: Matilda
• Chapter 4: The War Plan
• Chapter 5: Countdown
• Chapter 6: Dread Silence Reposes
• Chapter 7: Uncertainty and Human Factors
• Chapter 8: Red Ink
• Chapter 9: Time on Target
• Chapter 10: On the Shore, Dimly Seen
• Chapter 11: A Dangerous Position
• Chapter 12: A Fiery Crash
• Chapter 13: Garden of Eden
• Chapter 14: Killbox
• Chapter 15: National Geographic
• Chapter 16: A Turning Point
• Chapter 17: Their Blood Had Washed Out
• Chapter 18: Star Spangled Banner
• Chapter 19: Ashura
• Chapter 20: Occupation
• Chapter 21: When Free Men Shall Stand
• Chapter 22: Mortars in the Garden
• Chapter 23: Strategic Corporal
• Chapter 24: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy
• Chapter 25: Ribbons
• Chapter 26: The Twilight's Last Gleaming
• Chapter 27: Home of the Brave.
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This riveting memoir is the first book written by a female Marine about the war in Iraq and one of the only books written by a woman who has experienced combat firsthand. Deploying to Iraq in 2003, Jane Blair's aerial reconnaissance unit was assigned to travel ahead of and alongside combat units throughout the initial phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Throughout her deployment, Jane kept a journal of her and her fellow lieutenants' combat experiences, which she draws on to convey the immediacy of life in the military, not just for a woman but for all Marines. Jane's stories highlight the drama and chaos of wartime Iraq along with the day-to-day challenges every soldier faced: from spicing up a "pasta with alfredo sauce" MRE to keeping the insidious sand at bay. She also copes with a bullying superior officer while trying to connect with local civilians who have long been viewed as "the enemy." She recounts the struggles specific to women, including being respected as a Marine rather than dismissed as "the weaker sex" and battling the prejudices of male soldiers who don't believe women belong in uniform. And always, she fights the personal loneliness of being separated from her husband, balanced with the challenge and joy of stealing a private moment with him when his unit is close by. Jane describes not only her experiences as a young lieutenant and as a woman but also those of her fellow Marines, whom she lauds as the true heroes of her story. Ultimately, she learns from her commanding officer, and her fellows in arms, what it truly means to be a leader, both in the military and in life. Weaving her story together with the experiences of the ordinary people of Iraq, this book offers compelling insights into the profound impact of the war on the lives of soldiers and civilians alike. Her unforgettable narrative bridges the gap between those who have experienced the Iraq War firsthand and those in America who could only follow its life-altering events from a distance.
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• List of Abbreviations Preface
• 1. Introduction: A Comforting Explanation for Calamity
• 2. Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Iraq War
• 3. Alternative Visions of the Iraq War
• 4. Congress and the Politics of the Iraq War
• 5. Great Decisions and the Irrelevance of Intelligence
• 6. Politicization
• 7. Scapegoats and Spectator Sport
• 8. The Never-Ending Issue
• 9. Catharsis and 9/11
• 10. Responses to Catharsis
• 11. The Illusion of Reform
• 12. Real Reform
• 13. Adapting Policy to Uncertainty Notes Index.
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A career of nearly three decades with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council showed Paul R. Pillar that intelligence reforms, especially measures enacted since 9/11, can be deeply misguided. They often miss the sources that underwrite failed policy and misperceive our ability to read outside influences. They also misconceive the intelligence-policy relationship and promote changes that weaken intelligence-gathering operations. In this book, Pillar confronts the intelligence myths Americans have come to rely on to explain national tragedies, including the belief that intelligence drives major national security decisions and can be fixed to avoid future failures. Pillar believes these assumptions waste critical resources and create harmful policies, diverting attention away from smarter reform, and they keep Americans from recognizing the limits of obtainable knowledge. Pillar revisits U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War and highlights the small role intelligence played in those decisions, and he demonstrates the negligible effect that America's most notorious intelligence failures had on U.S. policy and interests. He then reviews in detail the events of 9/11 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, condemning the 9/11 commission and the George W. Bush administration for their portrayals of the role of intelligence. Pillar offers an original approach to better informing U.S. policy, which involves insulating intelligence management from politicization and reducing the politically appointed layer in the executive branch to combat slanted perceptions of foreign threats. Pillar concludes with principles for adapting foreign policy to inevitable uncertainties.
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• Iraq
• perspectives I: windows
• Iraq
• perspectives II: nightvision.

Winner, The Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography Benjamin Lowy's powerful and arresting colour photographs, taken over a six-year period through Humvee windows and military-issue night vision goggles, capture the desolation of a war-ravaged Iraq as well as the tension and anxiety of both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. To photograph on the streets unprotected was impossible for Lowy, so he made images that illuminate this difficulty by shooting photographs through the windows and goggles meant to help him, and soldiers, to see. In doing so he provides us with a new way of looking at the waroan entirely different framework for regarding and thinking about the everyday activities of Iraqis in a devastated landscape and the movements of soldiers on patrol, as well as the alarm and apprehension of night-time raids. "Iraq was a land of blast walls and barbed wire fences. I made my first image of a concrete blast wall through the window of my armored car. These pictures show a fragment of Iraqi daily life taken by a transient passenger in a Humvee; yet they are a window to a world where work, play, tension, grief, survival, and everything in between are as familiar as the events of our own lives...[In] the 'Nightvision' images ...as soldiers weave through the houses and bedrooms of civilians during night-time military raids, they encounter the faces of their suspects as well as bystanders, many of whom are parents protecting their children...I hope that these images provide the viewer with momentary illumination of the fear and desperation that is war."oBenjamin Lowy.
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• Contents: Cynthia Fuchs/Joe Lockard: Introduction: Shrapnel throughout the Body: U.S. War Culture and Iraq - Patrick Brantlinger: Shopping on Red Alert: The Rhetorical Normalization of Terror - Leanne McRae: Memory, Meaning, and Mass Destruction - Murray Pomerance: Bagdad Bad - Anna Froula: America, Fuck Yeah!: Patriotic Puppetry in Team America: World Police - Tony Perucci: Fight or Fuck: Performing Neoliberalism at Abu Ghraib - David Clearwater: Zap the Iraqoids: War, Video Games, and Perception Management - Cynthia Fuchs: You Just Want Stories: Iraqi Subjects, American Documentaries - Zoe Trodd/Nathaniel Nadaff-Hafrey: George, They Were Only Movies: The Vietnam Syndrome in Iraq War Culture - Stephanie Athey: The Torturer's Tale: Tony Lagouranis in Mosul and the Media - Henry Giroux: From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib: Rethinking Adorno's Politics of Education.
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The Iraq war has produced profound changes within the United States, changes manifested by popular discontent with the war. On one hand, U.S. culture finds its own ideological reflection in the Iraq war; on the other hand, U.S. media repeatedly critique the social and political forces that produce the war. These multiple and contradictory assessments have been characterized by intensified imagery and narratives, an escalation that is in part a function of the new communications technologies used to generate them. This book examines the images and stories emerging from the Iraq war, from video games that retell its battles, the representations of Arab people in American film history, and U.S. war documentaries, to parody and memoir and photographs from Abu Ghraib.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Setting the Context: Intervention and Norms in International Society
• 3. The Gulf War
• 4. The Kosovo Intervention
• 5. The Intervention in Afghanistan
• 6. The Iraq War
• 7. Conclusion.
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This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies, the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on which the respective presidents based their rhetoric for war. The work then examines the practice of war in the light of these justifications to determine whether changes in justifications correlate with changes in practice. In particular, the justificatory discourse finds four key themes that emerge in the presidential discourses, which are tracked across the case studies and point to the fundamental driving force in US motivations for going to war. The four key themes which emerge from the data are: international law or norms; human rights; national interest; and egoist morality (similar too, but wider than, 'exceptionalism'). This analysis shows that 9/11 resulted in a radical shift away from an international law and human rights-focused justificatory discourse, to one which was overwhelmingly dominated by egoist-morality justifications and national interest. This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, humanitarian intervention, Security Studies, and IR theory.
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• Lessons in terror
• An American, Chicago born
• The U.S. Congress : from Camelot to Quagmire
• In Nixon's arena
• Javelin catcher : inside the Ford White House
• Fighting the cold war
• Back to reality
• Leaning forward
• Into the graveyard of empires
• Saddam's miscalculation
• The occupation of Iraq
• Wartime detention
• Pulling on our boots : challenges and controversies beyond the war zones
• The long, hard slog.

With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history: his experiences growing up during the Depression and World War II, his time as a Naval aviator; his service in Congress starting at age 30; his cabinet level positions in the Nixon and Ford White Houses; his assignments in the Reagan administration; and his years as a successful business executive in the private sector. Rumsfeld addresses the challenges and controversies of his illustrious career, from the unseating of the entrenched House Republican leader in 1965, to helping the Ford administration steer the country away from Watergate and Vietnam, to bruising battles over transforming the military for the 21st century, to the war in Iraq, to confronting abuse at Abu Ghraib and allegations of torture at Guantanamo Bay. Along the way, he offers his plainspoken, first-hand views and often humorous and surprising anecdotes about some of the world's best known figures, from Margaret Thatcher to Saddam Hussein, from Henry Kissinger to Colin Powell, from Elvis Presley to Dick Cheney, and each American president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush. Rumsfeld relies not only on his memory but also on previously unreleased and recently declassified documents. Thousands of pages of documents not yet seen by the public will be made available on an accompanying website. "Known and Unknown" delivers both a fascinating narrative for today's readers and an unprecedented resource for tomorrow's historians. Proceeds from the sales of "Known and Unknown" will go to the veterans charities supported by the Rumsfeld Foundation.
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