Course Description

Instructor: Dan Zins ( Online only course.)

Reading Paths of Dissent:  Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars, a 2022 anthology edited by retired military officers Andrew Bacevich and Danny Sjursen, we will explore what veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars suggest all of us can do if we are actually serious about supporting the troops.

Course keywords: conscience/moral courage/whistleblower/bearing witness/groupthink, loyalty/patriotism/nationalism, anti-military vs. anti-militarism, lying/self-deception/propaganda/media, accountability, ICC/Vietnam/Ukraine, complicity, bipartisan consensus, democracy/fascism, empire, moral injury/atonement/redemption, racism, terrorism, national vs. common security, history/the ethics of memory and forgetting.

Book to read: Andrew Bacevich and Danny Sjursen, eds., “Paths of Dissent:  Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided War 

https://www.amazon.com/Paths-Dissent-Soldiers-Americas-Misguided/dp/1250870178/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

ISBN number: 978-1250870179