By Any Means Necessary (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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This book provides accounts from fourteen military and intelligence veterans who saw, tried to stop, or carried out abusive violence against civilian populations in streets and homes and against detainees suspected of being terrorists and insurgents. What were they thinking at the time? How did they select the kind of abuse to use? What do they think about themselves and their conduct after coming home? Those questions form the heart of the book.

This book will describe the reasons why Americans decided to abuse people under their control. The worst abuses were not part of interrogation. Fear, rage, and even boredom motivated some of the acts.

Abusers, bystanders, and those who tried to stop the abuse all bear the invisible marks of their experiences. They carry those scars back to America and into their homes where they and their loved ones struggle to comprehend their experiences. This book is for those who want to understand the lived reality of young men and women sent to faraway places to fight America's counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism wars.