The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The World Was Right

On Vietnam as the war the rest of the world understood correctly in real time, while America spent a generation arriving at what everyone else already knew

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The War We Arrived Late To

On America's entry into the First World War, the financial interests that preceded it, and how the peace Americans helped impose made the Second War arithmetically inevitable

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The PR War

On the fabricated atrocity that launched the Gulf War, the diplomatic signals that preceded it, and the half-million children who died in the sanctions that followed it

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Manufactured War

On the deliberate fabrication of the case for the Iraq War, the largest anti-war protest in human history that was ignored, and the half-million dead that followed

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Longest Lie

On twenty years of public optimism and private despair in Afghanistan, the offer that was refused before the war began, and the two weeks that exposed everything

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Good War

On the Eastern Front that Americans don't know, the war crimes committed in the name of defeating fascism, and what the mythology of the best war costs us in our understanding of the wars that followed

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Frame

On how America's geographic insulation, its entertainment apparatus, and managed journalism built a population systematically unable to see its own wars from the outside

The Wars We Tell Ourselves

The Forgotten War

On why America forgot Korea, what the air campaign actually did to the peninsula, and how a 70-year armistice became the world's most dangerous unresolved conflict