How
We Wage War
(2004) Following the September
11 attacks, President George W. Bush declared an unending
war against terrorism, shifting U.S. foreign policy to
an offensive stance with the military as the central means
for addressing international threats. Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld pledged to wage war against this "new
enemy" with a new military, one leaner and more efficient.
In the following months the U.S. launched two offensives,
one in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. As the official end
to the Iraq war moves the United States military into
a new phase of the war against terrorism, citizens of
the United States must ask if war and military power can,
in fact, make the United States safe from terrorists.
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This
year's lecture series examines the methods and means by
which the United States imagines and wages a war on terror.
The military based preemptive foreign policy devised for
fighting this war brings with it unique challenges for
policy makers and citizen alike. These challenges will
be the focus of this year's lecture series and include
citizen responsibilities in a time of war, political spin
and U. S. global foreign policy goals, legal issues surrounding
the war on terror and U.S. nuclear foreign policy as it
relates to nonproliferation and disarmament. |
David
Harris
Sept 22, 2004 |
