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Author:

Scahill, Jeremy.

Title:

Dirty wars : the world is a battlefield / Jeremy Scahill.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Nation Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xxiv, 642 pages, [8] pages of plates :b illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

United States--History, Military--21st century.
Special operations (Military science)--United States--History--21st century.
Terrorism--History--Government policy--United States--History--21st century.
Targeted killing--United States--History--21st century.
Intelligence service--United States--History--21st century.
United States--History--History--21st century.
United States--Moral and ethical aspects.--Moral and ethical aspects.

Contents:

Prologue -- Washington, DC 2001-2002 -- The United States and Yemen, 1971-2002 -- Washington, 1979-2001 -- Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001 -- The United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen, 2002-2003 -- Washington, DC, Yemen and Djibouti, 2002 -- Washington, DC, 2002 -- Washington, DC, 2002-2003 -- The United States, 1974-2003, Iraq 2003 -- Somalia, 1993-2004 -- Yemen, 2003-2006 -- United Kingdom, 2003 -- Iraq, 2003-2005.

Summary:

In "Dirty Wars," Jeremy Scahill, author of the "New York Times" best-seller "Blackwater," takes us inside America's new covert wars. As he reveals, the foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe 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 of America.

ISBN:

156858671X (hbk.)
9781568586717 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)824609005

LCCN:

2012051769

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