AMERICA'S
WARS
U.S. State Department international information site.
FOREIGN POLICY LINKS
UNIT # 3
WORLD WAR II
THE KOREAN WAR
UNIT # 5
The Nuclear Bomb
Watch a variety of Frontline programs online. Many are about U.S. Foreign Policy.
WHO PROFITS FROM WAR?
World Policy Institute - Arms Trade Resource Center
OpenSecrets.Org - a guide to money and U.S. Politics.
GREEN PARTY News Release: "Wartime Contracts Favor Bush Administration's Corporate Cronies."
ESSAYS ON ETHICS, WAR, & PEACE - The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
UNIT # 4
THE VIETNAM WAR
MID-TERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
SALON.COM - "Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President" - By Jessica Kowal - As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq. 4/20/04
SALON.COM - "What did we learn from Vietnam?"
Bobbie Ann Mason, Michael Lind, Philip Caputo, Jonathan Schell and others talk about how the war changed the U.S., and the world. - By Fiona Morgan and Daryl Lindsey
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American Deaths in Iraq:
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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UNIT # 1
The U.S. & World Conflict in the 21st Century.
BACK TO COACH BURKE'S HOME PAGE
THE TIGER FORCE MASSACRE - an incredible story about a massacre in Vietnam and a government cover-up that wasn't revealed to the public until October of 2003.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. - Edward R. Murrow
THE COMING WARS - by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
"The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term."
THE BLACK HAWK DOWN PAGE
America's Wars Homework Page
U.S. Deaths in Iraq
war
What does it mean to be Patriotic?
Read the entire text of Republican Congressman Ron Paul's speech before Congress in May 2007
Excerpt from speech:
"Unquestioned loyalty to the state is especially demanded in times of war. Lack of support for a war policy is said to be unpatriotic. Arguments against a particular policy that endorses a war once it’s started, are always said to be endangering the troops in the field. This, they blatantly claim, is unpatriotic and all dissent must stop. Yet it is dissent from government policies that defines the true patriot and champion of liberty."
- Hon. Ron Paul, (Rep) Congraessman, Texas - May 22, 2007
Do you like Conspiracy theories?? Here's a link to some interesting & scary ones found on YouTube. Be sure to take these with a grain of salt.
Top Pentagon Contractors - 2007 pdf
WHO PROFITS FROM WAR?
PREPARING THE BATTLEFIELD - by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
"The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran."
“The coherence of military strategy is being eroded because of undue civilian influence and direction of nonconventional military operations,” Sheehan said. “If you have small groups planning and conducting military operations outside the knowledge and control of the combatant commander, by default you can’t have a coherent military strategy. You end up with a disaster, like the reconstruction efforts in Iraq.”
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U.S. official resigns over Afghan war
Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting
Washington Post
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Full text of former Marine Captain, Matthew Hoh's letter of resignation.
The first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency.
