Links: Militarism, War

• Nick Thorpe, Origins of war: Mesolithic conflict in Europe, British Archaeology, no. 52, April 2000.
  "The Mesolithic era is often characterised as a kind of golden age of harmony with nature and peaceful co-existence between people. Not so, writes Nick Thorpe."
  
  Note: The Mesolithic era in Europe refers to the period from around 11,700 BC (end of the last glacial period) until as recent as 5000 BC.


• Chalmers Johnson, The Military-Industrial Complex: It's Much Later Than You Think [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Warning: Mercenaries at Work], TomDispatch.com, 27 July 2008.


• Justin Raimondo, The New Neocons: The left wing of the War Party raises its ugly head, AntiWar.com, 13 May 2009.
  
  Discusses the politics of the Center for a New American Security.


• James Dao, Older Recruits Challenge Army and Vice Versa, The New York Times, 17 June 2009.


• Chris Floyd, Dexter's Legions in Afghanistan: The "Good" Killers of the "Good" War?, CounterPunch.org, 22 June 2009.


• David Price, Obama's Classroom Spies: Son of PRISP, CounterPunch.org, 23 June 2009.
  
  Also published at AlterNet.org, 24 June 2009.


• Jake Lynch, How America is constantly at war, The Sydney Morning Herald, smh.com.au, 24 June 2009.
  
  via: Watching America.


• Robert C. Koehler, The Iron Triangle: 10,000 years of organized warfare - and no end in sight, The Smirking Chimp, 26 June 2009.


• David Bromwich, America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way of Life [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: David Bromwich, America's Serial Warriors], TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, 21 July 2009.


• UAVs: The Future of Warfare in America, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 23 July 2009.


• William Pfaff, U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan, Truthdig, truthdig.com, 23 July 2009.


• Jeremy Scahill, Feingold: White House is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard, The Nation, 24 July 2009.


• Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston, Bush Weighed Using Military in U.S. Arrests, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 24 July 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, The Cheney plan to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil, Salon.com, 25 July 2009.


• * Chalmers Johnson, Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire: And Ten Steps to Take to Do So [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire], TomDispatch, tomdispatch.com, 30 July 2009.


• * Gabriel Kolko, Searching For Enemies: The Contours of Recent American Foreign Policy, CounterPunch, counterpunch.org, 31 July 2009.
  
  Excerpt from Gabriel Kolko's most recent book:
  World in Crisis: the End of the American Century. Pluto Press, 2009.
  (Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.)


• Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola, Militarizing the Homeland, t r u t h o u t, 06 August 2009.


• John Feffer, Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: John Feffer, Their Martyrs and Our Heroes], TomDispatch.com, 06 August 2009.


• Jeff Huber, Perpetual War for Perpetual War, The American Conservative, 06 August 2009.


• Paul Craig Roberts, Do You Feel Safe Now? Proud?, AntiWar.com, 07 August 2008.


• Walter Pincus, Military Analysts Expect Long-Term, Costly U.S. Effort in Afghanistan, The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, 09 August 2009.


• Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare, Echo Platoon: Warehousing Soldiers in the Homeland [Tom Engelhardt, Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Lost in Military Limbo], TomDispatch, tomdispatch.com, 09 August 2009.


• Chris Floyd, Addicted to War: America's Brutal Pipe Dream in Afghanistan, Empire Burlesque, chris-floyd.com, 11 August 2009.


• William Pfaff, There’s a Solution in Afghanistan — but Not the Way We’re Headed, TruthDig, 11 August 2009.


• Christopher Drew, A Soldier’s Eye in the Sky, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 11 August 2009.


• Lizette Alvarez, Women at Arms: G.I. Jane Breaks the Combat Barrier, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 15 August 2009.
  
  Steven Lee Myers, Women at Arms: Living and Fighting Alongside Men, and Fitting In, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, 16 August 2009.