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War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
By (author) Norman Solomon
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An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity†(Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts “[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should be required reading for journalists and all those who long to live in peace.â€â€”Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences are, from military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home. From Iraq through Afghanistan and Syria and on to little-known deployments in a range of countries around the globe, the United States has been at perpetual war for at least the past two decades. Yet many of these forays remain off the radar of average Americans. Compliant journalists add to the smokescreen by providing narrow coverage of military engagements and by repeating the military’s talking points. Meanwhile, the increased use of high technology, air power, and remote drones has put distance between soldiers and the civilians who die. Back at home, Solomon argues, the cloak of invisibility masks massive Pentagon budgets that receive bipartisan approval even as policy makers struggle to fund the domestic agenda. Necessary, timely, and unflinching, War Made Invisible is an eloquent moral call for counting the true costs of war.
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Publisher | The New Press
Published date | 27 Jul 2023
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 240
Dimensions | 215 x 139 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-6209-7791-0
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BISAC | history / military / general
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