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.
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