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The World Is A Battlefield
Nation Books
May 2013
On Sale: April 23, 2013
680 pages
ISBN: 156858671X
EAN: 9781568586717
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In 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.
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