The War on Terror

  Read: Whitlock, C. 2019. “At war with the truth”, Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-w ar-confidential-documents/?tid=bottom_nav Watch the 17-minute documentary film: “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War”, which is part of the above-mentioned article. Read: Lutz, C. 2017. The war in Afghanistan might not be effective—but, for some, it’s profitable. Pacific Standard Sep. 6, 2017. https://psmag.com/.preview/cn02141e0f700025dc?auth=c5630c8a6b888bbf4c3b6edfdd9fa4d41b c8a7f2&nonce=1504650340665 Read: Bennis, P. 2020. The Pentagon took COVID-19 money for PPE and bought weapons instead. National Priorities Project, Oct. 2, 2020: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2020/10/02/pentagon-took-money-ppe-and-bought-weap ons/ Recommended additional source for this assignment (This is a required reading for the final exam): Emilie Beck’s 2018 honors thesis, “Re-contextualizing the war on terror”, from page 38 to 63: https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/academics/colleges/hclas/geog/geog_beck_emilie_thesis_final.pdf