by Paul Woodward
04.05.2010
When a leaked US Army report recently revealed that the military regards Wikileaks as a potential force protection threat, the leak not only exposed the army’s fears but it also shed light on the breadth of this concept: force protection. From the Pentagon’s perspective, protecting American troops and making sure they stay out of harm’s [...]
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by Paul Woodward
01.30.2008
Normalizing air war from Guernica to Arab Jabour By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, January 29, 2008 For those who know something about the history of air power, which, since World War II, has been lodged at the heart of the American Way of War, that 100,000 figure [-- the quantity of explosives dropped on Arab Jabour [...]
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Lies and cover-ups in the name of force protection
by Paul Woodward 04.05.2010When a leaked US Army report recently revealed that the military regards Wikileaks as a potential force protection threat, the leak not only exposed the army’s fears but it also shed light on the breadth of this concept: force protection. From the Pentagon’s perspective, protecting American troops and making sure they stay out of harm’s [...]