Dahr Jamail, author of the article “Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military,” discusses the increasing disillusionment among soldiers for Iraq and Afghanistan war justifications, the tactics of evading dangerous and pointless “IED lottery” patrols, Pentagon estimates of 25-40 thousand AWOL soldiers since 2003 and how the U.S. economic downturn is preventing a large organized war resistance from taking hold within the military.
- US Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of Occupation
- Army Soldier Jailed for Rap Lyrics to Face Court-Martial in Iraq
- "Mass Casualties": The Dark Underbelly of Occupation, an Army Medic's Account
- Army to Discharge Single Mom, Rather Than Court-Martial Her
- Court-Martial for Soldier Who Wrote Angry Song about Stop-Loss
- March 14: Tucson, AZ
- March 18: Washington, DC
- March 19: Washington, DC
- March 20: Washington, DC
- April 10: Portland, Oregon
- April 29: Moscow, Idaho
Dahr Jamail Dispatches by Dahr Jamail is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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