Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter 1 World War I
All the Powers Massing Great Armies in Fear of Possible Conflict The Mew York Times 10
Voice of Verdun: France's Reply to Peace Hints G. H. Perris 13
Wilson Approves Staff's Army Bill The New York Times 18
German Counter-Artillery Fire Silenced by Our Guns in 38 Minutes Cameron Mackenzie 21
Should America Have Entered World War I? Michael Kazin 24
Long Echoes of War and Speech Ted Widmer 27
The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever steven Erlanger 31
Chapter 2 World War II
The International Situation The New York Times 37
War of the World: Japanese Attack Merges Conflicts - We Must Not Discount Foe's Strength Hanson W. Baldwin 40
For Those Who Died The New York Times 44
Enemy Maneuvers The New York Times 46
First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan; Missile Is Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT; Truman Warns Foe of a 'Rain of Ruin' Sidney Shalett 49
Which Date Should Live in Infamy? Jon Meacham 57
At the Site of Germany's Biggest World War II Battle, a Changing View of History Alison Smale 60
Chapter 3 The Vietnam War
160 U.S. and Saigon Planes Bomb 2 Bases in North in Record Raid Jack Langguth 65
McNamara Report to Johnson on the Situation in Saigon in '63 The New York Times 69
End of a Nightmare The New York Times 74
The Americans Depart The New York Times 75
What Was the Vietnam War About? Christian G. Appy 77
Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Mark K. Updegrove 83
How Vietnam Changed Journalism Andrew Pearson 87
Chapter 4 The Iraq War
Bush Orders Start of War on Iraq; Missiles Apparently Miss Hussein David E. Sanger John F. Burns 92
The War Begins The New York Times 99
Wave of Protests, From Europe to New York John Tagliabue 101
Cheers, Tears and Looting in Capital's Streets John F. Burns 105
President Says Military Phase in Iraq Has Ended David E. Sanger 112
The Failure to Find Iraqi Weapons The New York Times 118
A Shifting Enemy: U.S. Generals Say Civil War, Not Insurgency, Is Greatest Threat Mark Mazzetti 121
A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So? Edward Wong 124
3,000 Deaths in Iraq, Countless Tears at Home Lizette Alvarez Andrew Lehren 129
Obama Declares an End to Combat Mission in Iraq Helene Cooper Sheryl Gay Stolberg 139
Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country Sinan Antoon 144
15 Years Ago, I Helped Start a War That Hasn't Ended Matt Ufford 148
Chapter 5 The War on Terror
U.S. and Britain Strike Afghanistan, Aiming at Bases and Terrorist Camps; Bush Warns 'Taliban Will Pay a Price' Patrick E. Tyler 152
Long War Is Seen Steven Lee Myers Alan Cowell 159
A Merciful War Nicholas D. Kristof 163
How a 'Good War' in Afghanistan Went Bad David Rohde David E. Sanger 166
Obama Adds Troops, but Maps Exit Plan Sheryl Gay Stolberg Helene Cooper 183
Keeping a Promise to Afghans The New York Times 189
In Afghanistan's Unwinnable War, What's the Best Loss to Hope For? Max Fisher 191
Drone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often Unsure About Who Will Die Scott Shane 196
Telling the Truth About the Cost of War The New York Times 200
Our Drone War Burnout Pratap Chatterjee 203
I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It's Happening Again. Lawrence Wilkerson 207
Glossary 211
Media Literacy Terms 213
Media Literacy Questions 215
Citations 217
Index 221