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The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan Paperback – January 11, 2011

by Dahr Jamail (Author), Chris Hedges (Foreword)

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Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone, brings us inside the movement of military resistance to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since 2006, a majority in the United States have opposed the continued occupation of Iraq, and increasing skepticism surrounds the escalation in Afghanistan. But how do the soldiers who carry out the American occupations see their missions?

Fragmented reports of battalions refusing orders, of individual soldiers refusing redeployment and taking a public stand against the occupations have trickled into the mainstream reportage over the last five years. But how deep does the current of resistance run? What makes soldiers decide to go AWOL, file for conscientious objector status, and even serve sentences in military prison for their acts of refusal?

Dahr Jamail's comprehensive study of the today's military resisters sheds new light on the contours of dissent within the ranks of the world's most powerful military.

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January 11, 2011
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"Jamail's human portrait of the men and women who turned away from the project of empire should serve as a beacon." —Chris Hedges

"Dahr Jamail is one of very few journalists who have displayed the courage—physical, intellectual, and moral courage—to tell the truth about the invasion of Iraq. In this outstanding book, he describes the often secret resistance within the US military." —John Pilger

“Based on his experiences as an investigative reporter in Iraq and in his frequent conversations with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Jamail vividly portrays issues of conscience for military personnel during wartime. As a woman veteran, I thank him for exposing sexual assault and rape in the military—including the warning that of women seeking help from the Veteran’s Affairs, one in three has been sexually assaulted while in the military. Jamail’s work provides indispensable help in our understanding of the costs of war to our own military as well as to countries the United States occupies.” —Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Reserves Colonel and U.S. diplomat who resigned in opposition to the Iraq War

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Dahr Jamail is author of the book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail’s work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Guardian, The Nation, and The Progressive. He has received many awards for his reportage, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Jamail's reporting from Iraq has been published in newspapers and magazine worldwide. He has appeared on Democracy Now! as a regular guest, as well as BBC, Pacifia Radio, and numerous other networks.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1608460959
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haymarket Books; Reprint edition (January 11, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781608460953
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1608460953
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,194,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,466 in Afghan War Military History
- #2,584 in War & Peace (Books)
- #3,004 in Iraq War History (Books)

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Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.
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Celeste

Could not put down!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2011

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This book took my breath away. I am making my way through the War Resister field, this was my third book on it and by far the best. I don't want to out the other books as I think there should be as many books as possible in this field! The writing is fantastic, the quotes are (mind blank)- emotionally provoking. I read with a highlighter and I highlighted almost this entire book. Bravo! to the editor as well, because not a single word of this 220 pg book could be spared. Don't forget to read the intro! As to the content, plainly I am a new comer to the anti-war movement (I am only 24), but the GI resistence movement is by far my favorite. My brother in law is in the military and against the war though not in the resistence movement, and I read this book with my cell phone in my lap calling my sister every half hour! Of all the anti-war books I've read this and one other is my favorite- the other is- and I know this doesn't SOUND good, but it IS, Grandmothers Against the War by Joan Wile. I was planning on getting active in the movement anyways, so I wouldn't say this spurred it, but it definately gave me direction. It tells you which organizations to look into and where the movement needs help. I'm ordering his other book today because I liked this one so much. KEEP WRITING!!!!

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Did you know a THIRD WTC building fell on 911?

PLEASE read. I put a printout of a picture of a Ron Paul bumper sticker on the back of a HumVee in Iraq in my copy.

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018

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Dahr Jamail should be on any reader's lips. Up with, maybe above other true investigative journalists. DON'T watch the movie they made regarding the Green Zone - read this book instead.
Locate and follow his articles anywhere you can find them

I would watch Naomi Klein's War, Inc, then read this before I signed up for aany military 'service'. (You can get your schooling through the Pell Grant system if you're poor!!!)

Thank you Mr. Jamail!

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Rebecca

A book every American should read

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2010

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There are so many things the American people don't know about America.
Anyone who wants America to be better than it is should understand what our military is doing to our young men and women and the people of the countries that we occupy.
Our young people shouldn't be forced to join the military because there aren't other possibilities for them and we should be aware of the way the military dehumanizes our young minds and turns them into professional murderers who cannot live with the things they are forced to do to maintain the American Empire.

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About the courage to see the truth and begin healing

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2014

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This story is powerful and can even be overwhelming, but necessary for us to read about the wars we are responsible for. I deeply admire Dahr Jamail for witnessing, being vulnerable and reporting the truth, and also the soldiers who recognize the realities of the great evil that has been done. Their work to recover themselves and spread the word to stop these and future wars of empire is the best hope we have for our country. We can all support them in their healing and getting the truth out to the American public. Our own healing from this tragedy requires knowing the truth first.

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Blondie

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Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2019

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This book is not an easy read. A lot of the info is outdated and the author doesnt come off as a very approachable person in the preface. While several chapters were interesting, this is the slowest i have ever read a book because it just wasnt for me. I think the biggest issue i have is this whole book calls for an end to the wars but now we have a president trying to do just that and everyone is now saying we shouldnt. So where are these people now? I dont know this book just wasnt for me.

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US Troops Hiding in Iraqi Homes

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2009

"A big thing used to be squads putting up in some Iraqi's house for a day or two, just going there and staying. They insert themselves in a house covertly in order to watch a neighborhood without anyone knowing that they were there. But it is really not about watching. It is about sleeping. Hopefully the squad is well-accepted in the family. Sometimes they even make friends. A few soldiers keep watch, the rest of the squad catch up on sleep and relax for a change." -- Bryan Casler

"So we would go and drop the dismounted people at some house with an air conditioner, where they would kick in a door and hang out and drink tea with those people, while we would proceed with the vehicles and bide time out of visible range." -- Seth Manzel

What a bunch of slackers: that might be an appropriate response to all of this if there were some comprehensible and worthwhile thing that any of these people were supposed to be doing. But, as Jamail's book makes clear, when US soldiers in Iraq are not avoiding their duty they are engaging in harassment, abuse, torture, the murder of civilians, endless stress and trauma, and the risk of their own death and injury for no purpose that has been made clear to them. Soldiers quoted in the book point out that if their own nation were occupied they would certainly fight back just as the Iraqis do. In fact, these are soldiers who signed up to fight for a cause. Some of them fell for the post-9-11 propaganda and signed up thinking they would help defend the United States. Many of them signed up for economic reasons, but they also had a willingness to kill and risk death for a noble cause. Many of them tried to do so for years before losing faith. And what went away, other than their physical and mental well being, was not their courage or generosity. It was their ability to convince themselves they were risking their lives for any good reason.

As recounted in "The Will to Resist," which ought to be read by every American, avoidance of duty (or, rather, illegal orders masquerading as duty) in Iraq has often evolved seamlessly into refusal to obey. Jamail recounts incidents of individuals and squads refusing to obey orders. If you were sent out at the same time every night to the same place, and were losing more friends each time to predictable attacks, for no apparent reason, would you not at some point refuse to go out yet another time, at least without changing your path and timing? Most of these soldiers do not have any understanding that war is always a mistake. They are willing to fight a war if someone can explain to them what the purpose of it is, or what a victory would look like. But they have turned against this particular war, since nobody can explain it to them, and they have seen for themselves that what they do in it accomplishes no good.

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