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So one of the top U.S. generals openly raised the level of security alert to just before nuclear war right in the middle of the Missile Crisis, and didn’t inform Washington—the Secretary of Defense didn’t even know about it. The Russian Secretary of Defense knew it, because his intelligence was picking it up, but Washington didn’t know. And this ge
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
Moseley dusted off “Plan White,” the general staff’s battle plan to defend Washington in the case of domestic insurrection.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Wilson led our country reluctantly into World War I and after the war led the struggle nationally and internationally to establish the League of Nations. They associate Wilson with progressive causes like women’s suffrage. A handful of students recall the Wilson administration’s Palmer raids against left-wing unions. But my students seldom know or
... See moreJames W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
McKinley, meanwhile, called for 125,000 volunteers to carry the war to the Caribbean. The army was swamped with applicants. And bouncing up and down enthusiastically at the head of the line was one Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy. Roosevelt’s eagerness to leave his post and join the army baffled his friends. “Is his wife dead? H
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
In 1946, the year the Philippines gained its liberty, Muñoz Marín came out publicly against independence and purged his party of members who favored it. The PPD would instead champion a middle solution—not independence, not statehood, but something in between. The hope was to gain autonomy for Puerto Rico without losing access to the U.S. market (“
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Col. Charles E. Callwell’s Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice, was first published in 1896 and revised and republished in 1899 and again in 1906.
A. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.7 What the US evidently sought to impose by main force on Iraq was a state apparatus whose fundamental mission was to facilitate conditions f
... See moreDavid Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism
In February 1943, Admiral Kent Hewitt—fresh from amphibious invasions in North Africa and equipped with the sailor’s gift to see a red sky at morning and predict the storm to follow—sent a message to the US Army’s commander of ground forces requesting a curriculum addition to the Scout and Raider program to begin training men on the destruction of
... See moreBenjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
Las guerras del general Omar Torrijos (Spanish Edition)
