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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/7/2021
Will They Ever Be Over? The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives
by Nick Turse
Trump's incoherent foreign policy presents Joe Biden an opportunity to take genuine steps to end the entanglements of the war on terror.
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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 2 – Is There Even a "Trump Doctrine"?
by Brian Glyn Williams
Many Americans have bought Donald Trump's claim that he seeks to extricate the U.S. from "endless wars," including in Afghanistan. Viewed in the context of his other foreign policy actions, this claim is nonsensical, and undermines the work being done in support of global democracy and American interests.
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12/20/2020
Trump's Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan: Part 1 – Abandoning a Vulnerable Ally in the War on Terror
by Brian Glyn Williams
Donald Trump's plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan misrepresents the scope and costs of the American mission and ignores the high stakes of failure for both Afghans and American security, according to a scholar of the War on Terror.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
7/26/2020
Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm
by William Astore
Sadly, it’s a reasonable bet that in the long run, even with Donald Trump as president, America has a better chance of defeating COVID-19 than the virus of forever war.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
6/28/2020
Letters From An American: June 27, 2020
by Heather Cox Richardson
A series of stories from the Trump administration over the weekend don't add up.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
6/28/2020
Trump Likely did Throw US Troops in Afghanistan under the Bus, but Why would the Russians have Targeted Them?
by Juan Cole
In Washington, a leak like this makes you ask questions. Who leaked the information and why?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/22/2020
What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families
by Andrea Mazzarino
All evidence indicates that military service tends to erode the fabric of family life and that, in reality, the state of America’s most fundamental union is anything but strong.
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3/15/2020
The Cost of Loyalty: A Crisis of Ethics in the Military
by Timothy Bakken
Military leadership has inculcated a self-serving culture of loyalty that prevents a long-overdue reckoning with its failures.
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SOURCE: LawFare
1/21/20
Why Haven't the Afghanistan Papers Gotten More Attention?
by David V. Gioe
The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
12/15/19
Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades
by William D. Hartung
The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
12/17/19
The (Failed) War on Terror's Precursor
by Danny Sjursen
It Was “Progress” All the Way Then, Too
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12/15/19
A Real Red Wedding Massacre Puts Lie to Trump's Claim That he "Obliterated" ISIS
by Brian Glyn Williams and Javed Rezayee
The human cost of the war in Afghanistan.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/9/19
After 3 Year FOIA Lawsuit, Washington Post Publishes Afghanistan Papers, A Secret History of the War
More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/9/19
'Modern-day Pentagon Papers’: Comparing the Afghanistan Papers to blockbuster Vietnam War study
Both studies were commissioned by obscure Defense Department agencies, Both are massive, and Both involved court battles, but 1971 was more dramatic.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
10/07/2019
'We Are Inside the Fire': An Oral History of the War in Afghanistan
by Fahim Abed and Fatima Faizi
Afghans have endured four decades of conflict, with little prospect of peace. This is the story of the last 18 years since the American invasion, as told by the men and women who’ve lived it.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
9/19/19
Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing
by Stephanie Savell
Since 2015, casualties from explosive remnants of war and abandoned IEDs have been rising rapidly.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
September 9, 2019
On or off, peace talks with the Taliban spell disaster for Afghanistan
by Ali A. Olomi
With tweets on Saturday, President Trump killed secretly planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David. If history is any indication, the consequences of the Trump administration’s reckless attempt at an agreement and even hastier reversal will be borne out by Afghans themselves — a reality that Afghans know all too well.
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SOURCE: Time
5/24/19
Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan
by Thurston Clarke
Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
4/15/19
Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan
by George C. Herring
There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
3/26/19
Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg
by Rebecca Gordon
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
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