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Tomsen shows the war's cruel math: For every fighter killed, two more joined. Their brothers. Their cousins. Their friends. You can't kill your way out of tribal revenge.
#books #bookreview #CounterInsurgency #WarReality #WeekendRead
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It's curious that given events in Iraq, the interview doesn't ask #Bush to reflect on the consequences of the #GWOT. The focus is of course on #9/11 and the global #counterterrorism war, and less on the parallel #counterinsurgency wars going on in Iraq and #Afghanistan. So Bush doesn't say much about events in Iraq. But his shallow and simplistic summary of the counterterrorism mission as just killing bad guys speaks volumes.
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https://archive.org/details/blackawakeningincapitalistamerica
Black Awakening In Capitalist America: An Analytic History by Robert L. Allen
Topics #whitesupremacy, #unitedstatesofamerika, #BlackPower, #counterinsurgency, #racism, #fordfoundation, #neocolonialism, #classconflict, #socialcapitalism
A classic study of the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s. 1990 Africa World Press edition of the 1969 Doubleday original.