Posts Tagged with ‘War:Iraq’
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War Porn – Roy Scranton’s Unremitting Gaze
12 Dec 2017War Porn (2016) by Roy Scranton is not a book to be easily read. To be read, yes, but…
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Redeployment – Stories From A War
23 Apr 2014Phil Klay’s slender volume of short fiction, coming from a 13 month tour in Iraq, delivers what we want from…
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Nick Turse with POW Phil Butler in Berkeley
06 Jan 2014Review of Kill Anything That Moves, here.
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — Bravo Squad Brought Home
02 Jan 2014Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) is one hell of a good book –in conception, language, characters and…
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“The Warriors” and “What It’s Like to Go to War”: Two Wars, Two Marines, Two Conclusions
03 Oct 2013I took on my first assigned reading in fifty years last month, for a seminar at Juniata college in Pennsylvania. …
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Why We Fight: Unmaking the Myth
03 Jun 2013Eugene Jareck’s 2005 documentary, Why We Fight, available at Netflix, is still a relevant film to watch, even though the motivating…
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Did Gifted Generals Win the War?
12 Feb 2013Andrew Bacevich, former colonel in the US Army, and now professor of International Relations at Boston University reviews two books…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
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Numerology on Iraq Numbers
28 Mar 2007Remember the Lancet reported study by Johns Hopkins last fall? 655,000 Iraqis dead it said. Not 12,000 as the Iraqi…
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Iraq: Wretched
23 Nov 2006There is no end to the carnage in Iraq. Juan Cole reports…. A string of car bombings in Sadr City…