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In May 2003, Chief executive George W. Bush declared triumph in Iraq. But while we acquired the battle, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failing prompted a simple change inside our foreign policy. Met with theshortcomings of "shock and awe", the U.S. armed service shifted its concentrate to"stability operations": counterinsurgency and the rebuilding of failed expresses. In less than a decade, international assistance has become militarized; humanitarianism has been armed. Combining recent history and firsthand reporting, Armed Humanitarians traces the way the ideas of nation-building arrived to vogue, and exactly how, evangelized through think tanks, administration training seminars, and the press, this new doctrine had taken main inside the Pentagon and the STATE DEPT.. Following this extraordinary experiment in armed social work as it plays out from Afghanistan and Iraq to Africa and Haiti, Nathan Hodge exposes the difficulties of translating these ambitious new ideas into action. In the end experiencing this new time in foreign relations as a noble but flawed test, he shows how armed humanitarianism strains our resources, deepens our reliance on outsourcing and private contractors, and brings about perceptions of a new imperialism, arguably a significant factor in a variety of new conflicts surrounding the world. Even as try to build nations, we might in truth be weakening our very own. Nathan Hodge is a Washington, D.C.-structured writer who has specialized in security and national security. He has reported from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and a number of other countries in the centre East and previous Soviet Union. He is the writer, with Sharon Weinberger, of A Nuclear Family Vacation, and his work has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, Foreign Coverage, and a great many other newspapers and mags.
