Dirty wars : the world is a battlefield

Summary: In "Dirty Wars," Jeremy Scahill, takes us inside America's new covert wars. As he reveals, the foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies of America.

Record details

ISBN: 9781568586717 (hc.)
ISBN: 156858671X (hc.)
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 642 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Nation Books, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue -- Washington, DC 2001-2002 -- The United States and Yemen, 1971-2002 -- Washington, 1979-2001 -- Yemen, 1970-2001; Washington, DC, 2001 -- The United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen, 2002-2003 -- Washington, DC, Yemen and Djibouti, 2002 --Washington, DC, 2002 -- Washington, DC, 2002-2003 -- The United States, 1974-2003, Iraq 2003 -- Somalia, 1993-2004 -- Yemen, 2003-2006 -- United Kingdom, 2003 -- Iraq, 2003-2005.