[haw-info] links to recent articles of interest

These recent-article mailings are posted at http://blog.historiansagainstwar.org. Suggestions for inclusion in the lists can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.

"The End of (Military) History? The United States, Israel, and the Failure of the Western Way of War"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175278

By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted July 29

The author teaches history and international relations at Boston University

 

"Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan"

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/jul/27/obamas-legacy-afghanistan/

By Garry Wills, New York Review of Books blog, posted July 27

The author is a professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University

 

"Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire"

http://www.fpif.org/articles/imperial_overkill_and_the_death_of_us_empire

By Francis Shor, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted July 27

The author teaches history at Wayne State University

 

"Dan Ellsberg on WickiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?"

http://www.thenation.com/blog/37949/dan-ellsberg-wikileaks-essential-democratic-question-who-will-tell-people

By John Nichols, The Nation blog, posted July 26

 

"The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175277

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted July 26

Partly historical musings based on a little-noticed Washington Post story on the US military's purchase of Russian helicopters for use in Afghanistan

 

"Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers"

http://www.juancole.com/2010/07/palin-on-the-ground-zero-mosque-vs-the-founding-fathers.html

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted July 19

The author teaches history at the University of Michigan.

 

"Leaving Iraq: The Ruin They'll Leave Behind"

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick07192010.html

By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org, posted July 19

 

"Death on Your Doorstep: What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo Won't Tell You About War"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175273

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com, posted July 13

 

"The Divergence of America and Israel"

http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_divergence_of_america_and_israel

By Shibil Siddiqi, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted July 12

A complex, historically based analysis

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[haw-info] links to recent articles of interest

These recent-article mailings are posted at http://blog.historiansagainstwar.org.  Suggestions for inclusion in the lists can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com. 

"Afghanistan's Armies, Past and Present"
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-105.html
By Stephanie Cronin, History & Policy, posted July 8
The author teaches Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford

 

"Non-Believer"
http://www.tnr.com/node/76091
By Andrew Bacevich, The New Republic, posted July 7
The author teaches history and international relations at Boston University

 

"Mark Twain's Early Protest Against the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2010/07/07/mark-twain%E2%80%99s-early-protest-against-the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/
By Cynthia Wachtell, Tikkun Daily, posted July 7
Based on the author's just-published book War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1961-1914 (LSU Press)

 

"What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama"
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/070510a.html
By Melvin A. Goodman, ConsortiumNews.com, posted July 5

 

"Why McChrystal Did It"
http://www.zcommunications.org/why-mcchrystal-did-it-by-immanuel-wallerstein
By Immanuel Wallerstein, Z-Net, posted July 4

 

"What Drives Israel?"
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-drives-israel-by-ilan-pappe
By Ilan Pappe, posted June 30 (originally in the Scotland Herald)
The author teaches history at the University of Exeter, UK

 

"How Afghanistan Became the Ignored War"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/28/zelizer.afghanistan.ignored.war/
By Julian Zelizer, CNN.com, posted June 28
The author teaches history at Princeton University

 

"The Land Where Theories of Warfare Go to Die: Obama, Petraeus, and the Cult of COIN in Afghanistan"
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175266
By Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.com, posted June 27

 

"Why the Taliban Is Winning in Afghanistan"
http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/06/british-afghanistan-government
By William Dalrymple, New Statesman, posted June 22
Compares the current war to the disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839-42