Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars

Andrew Bacevich · Daniel A. Sjursen

ago 2022 · Distribuido por Metropolitan Books

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American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.

Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we sought to “liberate.” Now the inclination to forget it all and move on is palpable. But there is much to be learned from the immense debacle. And those who served and fought in these wars are best positioned to teach us.

Paths of Dissent collects fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan—hailing from a wide range of services, ranks, and walks of life—who have come out in opposition to these conflicts. Selected for their candor and eloquence by fellow veterans Andrew Bacevich and Daniel Sjursen, these soldiers vividly describe both their motivations for serving and the disillusionment that made them speak out against the system. Their testimony is crucial for understanding just how the world’s self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.

Contributors: Gil Barndollar • Dan Berschinski • Joy Damiani • Daniel L. Davis • Jason Dempsey • Erik Edstrom • Vincent Emanuele • Gian Gentile • Matthew P. Hoh • Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr. • Buddhika Jayamaha • Roy Scranton • Kevin Tillman • Elliott Woods • Paul Yingling

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Andrew Bacevich graduated from West Point and Princeton, served for twenty-three years in the US Army, and is now a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. Founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank, he is the author or editor of a dozen books, among them The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, and After the Apocalypse.

Daniel A. Sjursen is a retired US Army officer who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. A senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com, he is the author of Ghost Riders of Baghdad and Patriotic Dissent.