Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dirty WarsCondition: NewSubtitle: The World Is a BattlefieldISBN-10: 1568589549EAN: 9781568589541ISBN: 9781568589541Publisher: Nation BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2014Description: A New York Times bestsellerA Washington Post bestsellerNamed the top investigative journalism book of 2013 by Nieman Reports Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2013 [A] courageous and exhaustive examination of the way a number of clandestine campaigns,full of crimes, cover-ups, and assassinations,became the United States' main strategy for combating terrorism." ,Teju Cole, The New Yorker , Best Books of 2013In Dirty Wars , Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times best-seller Blackwater , takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division and the Joint Special Operations Command ( JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through black budgets," Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that the world is a battlefield," as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond, Scahill reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. And, based on unprecedented access, Scahill tells the chilling story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government.As US leaders draw the country deeper into conflicts across the globe, setting the world stage for enormous destabilization and blowback, Americans are not only at greater risk,we are changing as a nation. Scahill unmasks the shadow warriors who prosecute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of unaccountable violence that is now official policy: victims of night raids, secret prisons, cruise missile attacks and drone strikes, and whole classes of people branded as suspected militants." Through his brave reporting, Scahill exposes the true nature of the dirty wars the United States government struggles to keep hidden.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 45mmItem Weight: 850gAuthor: Jeremy ScahillGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Dirty Wars
Title: Dirty Wars
Subtitle: The World Is a Battlefield
ISBN-10: 1568589549
EAN: 9781568589541
ISBN: 9781568589541
Release Date: 09/30/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Dirty Wars : the World Is a Battlefield
Number of Pages: 680 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Public Affairs
Item Height: 1.8 in
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: Military / Special Forces, Public Policy / Military Policy, Terrorism, Intelligence & Espionage, Military / United States, International Relations / General, United States / 21st Century, Security (National & International)
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 30.2 Oz
Author: Jeremy Scahill
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
