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Perpetual war

• Dave Philipps. 2025. Judge blocks policy that would expel transgender troops. March 18, New York Times. (pdf)
• Bernd Debusmann. 2025. Trump unveils plan for ‘Golden Dome’ defence system. March 21, BBC. 
• David Sanger and William Broad. 2025. Trump’s call to resume nuclear testing after decades revives a Cold War debate. October 30, New York Times. 
• Dexter Filkins. 2025. Is the US ready for the nest war? July 14, New Yorker.
• Charlie Savage. 2025. The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs. October 24, New York Times.
• Wall Street Journal. 2025. Space Force Chief on why China, Russia are ‘substantial’ threat. March 20, WSJ.com (YouTube). 
• Eric Schmitt and Tyler Pager. 2025. Head of the US Military’s Southern Command is stepping down, officials say. October 16, New York Times. 
• Christian Davenport. 2025. Space Force may turn to Musk’s SpaceX for military satellites. April 7, Washington Post. (pdf)
• Ailsa Chang, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Alejandra Marquez Janse. 2025. Military colonel reacts to SCOTUS allowing transgender military ban. May 13, npr.org. 
• Lazaro Gamio, Carol Rosenberg and
  Charlie Savage. 2025. Tracking US Military killings in boat attacks. October 29, New York Times. 
• Adam Liptak. 2025. Supreme Court lets Trump enforce transgender troop ban as cases proceed. May 6, New York Times. (pdf)
• Ryan Chan. 2025. US buzzes China’s military satellites in unfolding space rivalry. May 21, MSN.
• Eric Schmitt. 2025. US B-52s and helicopters fly near Venezuela in show of threats. October 16, New York Times. 
• Simone McCarthy. 2025. China is practicing ‘dogfighting’ as it ramps up space capabilities: US Space Force. March 21, CNN. 
• Jonathan Blitzer. 2025. The real target of Trump’s war on drug boats. October 21, New Yorker Magazine.
• Morgan Phillips. 2025. ‘Mind-boggling’: Space Force chief fires off dire warning about Chinese capability to knock out US satellites. April 3, FoxNews.
• Morgan Phillips. 2025. China accuses US of ‘turning space into a war zone’ with Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense project. May 21, FoxNews.
• Stacey Samuel, Shannon Van Sant, Matthew Schwartz. 2019. A US Army tweet asking ‘How has service impacted you?’ got an agonizing response. May 27, npr.org.
• Thomas Gibbons-Neff. 2019. Documents reveal US officials misled public on war in Afghanistan. Dec 9, New York Times.
• JD Simkins. 2020. Photos show devastation unleashed on terror leaders by sword-carrying ‘Ninja bomb.‘ June 20, Military Times.
• Damon Linker. 2020. Four lies about America’s perpetual wars. Jan 2, The Week.
• Nick Turse, Henrik Moltke and Alice Speri. 2018. Secret war: The US has conducted 550 drone strikes in Libya since 2011. June 20, The Intercept.
• Nick Turse. 2018. The US Military is winning. No really, it is! Sept 4, TomDispatch.com.
• Nick Turse. 2017. Donald Trump’s first year sets a record for US ops. Dec 14, TomDispatch.com.
• Howard Bryant. 2015. When league pays for patriotic acts, sports fans cover the costs. Nov 24, ESPN.
• Adam Raymond. 2018. Mattis: The US needs a smaller nuke to prevent nuclear war. Feb 8, New York Magazine.
• The Week. 2017. Washington’s secret doomsday plans. 
• Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt. 2017. Trump poised to drop some limits on drone strikes and commando raids. Sept 21, New York Times.
• Nick Turse. 2018. Victory, in our time. Sept 4, TomDispatch.com.
• The Week. 2017. Washington’s secret doomsday plans. Nov 20, The Week.
• Andrew Bacevich. 2017. The never-ending war in Afghanistan. Mar 13, New York Times.
• Rukmini Callimachi, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Alan Blinder and Thomas Gibbons-Neff. 2018. An endless war: Why 4 Americans died in a remote African desert. Feb 17, New York Times.
• Nicholas Kristof. 2017. Inside North Korea, and feeling the drums of war. Oct 5, New York Times.
• Nick Turse. 2017. US special operations forces deployed to 149 countries in 2017. Dec 15, warisboring.com.
• Alex Ward. 2017. Trump has tripled the pace of US bombing in Afghanistan. Nov 21, Vox.
• Spencer Ackerman. 2018. Team Trump bypassed DHS analysts to produce bogus terror report. Jan 21, Daily Beast.
• Ron Nixon. 2017. Homeland Security increasingly means putting agents outside the homeland. Dec 26, New York Times.
• Steve Holland and Phil Stewart. 2017. Trump strategy document singles out Russia as bad actor globally. Dec 18, Reuters. Accessed online: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2017-12-18/trump-in-strategy-document-to-cite-china-russia-as-competitors.
• The Intercept. 2015. The Drone Papers (this is a series, you can pick one of the articles, or use three of them, etc.)
• Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt. 2017. Trump administration is said to be working to loosen counterterrorism rules. Mar 12, New York Times.
• David Vine. 2014. A permanent infrastructure for permanent war. Nov 14, TomDispatch.com.
• Malise Ruthven. 2013. Terror: The Hidden Source. Oct 24, The New York Review of Books (review of Akbar Ahmed’s book The Thistle and the Drone).
• David Vine. 2015. Where in the world is the US military? July/Aug, Politico.
• Nick Turse. 2014. American proxy wars in Africa. Mar 13. TomDispatch.com.
• Andrew Bacevich. 2012. The golden age of special operations. May 29, TomDispatch.com.
• Andrew Gavin Marshall. 2013. Empire under Obama: America’s ‘secret wars’ in over 1oo countries around the world. Oct 25, truth-0ut.org.
• Sudarsan Raghavan. 2012. In Yemen, US airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaida. May 29, Washington Post.
• Andrew Kramer and Nicole Perlroth. 2012. Expert issues a cyberwar warning. June 3, New York Times.
• Greg Miller. 2012. CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign. April 18, Washington Post.
• Nick Turse. 2012. A drone-eat-drone world. May 31, Tomdispatch.com.
• Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 2012. Covert war on terror: The data. (you need to read through some of this–has data from multiple countries over time)
• Bill Roggio and Alexander Mayer. 2013. Charting the data for US airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004-13. Feb 8, The Long War Journal.
• Akbar Ahmed and Frankie Martin. 2012. Deadly drone strikes on Muslims in the Southern Philippines. Mar 5, Brookings Institution.
• James Joyner. 2011. How perpetual war became US ideology. May 11, The Atlantic.
• Tom Englehardt. 2010. Fear, Inc: Hold on to your underwear. Feb 10, Tomdispatch.com.
• Jane Mayer. 2009. Predator War. Oct 26, The New Yorker.
• Nick Turse. 2008. The real matrix: The Pentagon invades your life. Apr 24, TomDispatch.com.
• Nick Turse. 2008. A My Lai a Month: How the US Fought the Vietnam War.  The Asia-Pacific Journal  47(6), November 21.
• Norman Solomon. 2009. Where the money goes. Feb 26, San Francisco Chronicle.
• Michael Reagan. 2008. US military recruits children: ‘America’s Army’ video game violates international law. July 23, Truthout. Online at www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/26/10617
• Frida Berrigan. 2008. Military industrial complex 2.0: Cubicle mercenaries, subcontracting warriors, and other phenomena of a privatizing Pentagon. Sept 14, TomDispatch.com.
• Amy Goodman. 2009. Seymour Hersh. Secret US forces carried out assassinations in “a lot of countries,’ including Latin America. March 31, DemocracyNow!.
• Tom Englehardt. 2008. Stuff happens: The Pentagon’s argument of last resort on Iraq. Nov 20, TomDispatch.com.
• Norman Solomon. 2008. Silent winter of escalation. Dec 9, Common Dreams.
• Andrew Bacevich. 2008. Expanding war, contracting meaning: The next president and the global war on terror. Oct 30, TomDispatch.com.
• Nick Turse. 2008. The Golden age of the military-entertainment complex. March 20, TomDispatch.
• David Barstow. 2008. One man’s industrial-military-media complex. Nov 29, New York Times. Nick Turse. 2008. Billion dollar babies: Five stealth Pentagon defense contractors reaping billions of tax dollars. Jun 24, TomDispatch.com. Online at www.truthout.org/article/billion-dollar-babies
• Nick Turse. 2008. The real matrix: The Pentagon invades your life. April 24, TomDispatch.com.
• Tom Englehart. 2009. Afghanistan by the numbers. Sept 8, TomDispatch.
• Thom Shanker. 2008. Obama’s thoughts evolve on US troops in Iraq. Dec 4, International Herald Tribune.
• Henry Giroux. 2008. Against the militarized academy. Nov 20, Truthout.
• Robert Parry. 2007. Bush’s global ‘dirty war.‘ Consortium News, Oct 1.
• Nick Turse. 2007. How the Pentagon came to own the earth, sea and skies. July 7, TomDispatch.com.
• Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer. 2005. Pushing the limits of wartime powers. Dec 18, Washington Post.
• Nicholas Turse. 2004. The wild weapons of DARPA. Mar. 4, TomDispatch.com.
• Wayne Madsen. 2005. Al Qaeda: The database. November 18, Wayne Madsen Report.
• Pamela Hess. 2006. Rumsfeld pushes Gingrich long war strategy. March 6, United Press International.
• Simon Tisdall. 2006. Washington digs in for ‘long war,’ as Rumsfeld issues global call to arms. Guardian, Feb 7.
• Michael Isikoff. 2004. 2001 memo reveals push for broader presidential powers. Dec 18, Newsweek.
• Associated Press. 2006. Security issue kills domestic spying inquiry . May 11, Associated Press.
• Josh White and Ann Scott Tyson. 2006. Rumsfeld offers strategy for current war. Feb 3, Washington Post.
• Katherine Lemons, Patricia Purtschert and Yves Winter. 2003. Feeding fear: The new security culture. Alternet.org.
• Rational Enquirer. 2006. The Perpetual War Portfolio.
• New York Times. 2003. Invoking war to ease rules. New York Times, March 22.
• Michiko Kakutani. 2006. Personality, ideology, and Bush’s terror wars. June 20, New York Times.
• Karen Van Wolferen. 2002. To keep a population in line, wage perpetual war against a vague enemy. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mar 10.
• Henry McDonald. 2002. This perpetual war. Sept 15, The Observer.
• Nancy Snow. 2002. Opinion Control on the Next War in Iraq: Freedom to Fear, Freedom From Thinking. nancysnow.com.
• Susan Sontag. 2002. Real battles and empty metaphors. Online at http://dwij.org/forum/statesperson/sontag.htm