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Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II
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Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity After World War II |
While not technically a Middle East book, this recently-published study contains material that should be of interest to those who are attuned to one particular factor which has been generating increased interest in the region: the presence and behavior of US military forces. Dr. Conway-Lanz's original research looks at the evolution of American popular attitudes towards civilian causalties in warfare, going as far back as the time of the extensive aerial bombardments of World War II, which climaxed in the nuclear attacks on Japan. Because American public opinion and military behavior are likely to have decisive roles in ongoing Mideast regional issues of war, peace, and development (whether or not one is happy about that), persons with area-interest in the Middle East would be well served to consider and evaluate the content of this work.
UPDATE: The Washington Post has written on the book's fresh document revelations related to the killing of Korean refugees by US soldiers at No Gun Ri in the Korean war. Might these insights have a bearing on the effects of the burgeoning tragic story of probable homicidal Marine misbehavior in the town of Haditha in Iraq?
Posted by Matthew Hogan at May 27, 2006 01:06 PM
Filed Under: Iraq
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