The Will To Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Despite tremendous sentiment against the American-led occupations, citizens and soldiers continue to die. Award-winning journalist Jamail shows a new generation of American soldiers taking opposition into its own hands. As one of the few unembedded journalists in Iraq, he investigates the growing anti-war resistance of GIs embodied in organisations such as Iraq Veterans Against the War. Gathering stories from these courageous men and women, Jamail makes explicit the betrayal committed by politicians.

Dahr Jamail is author of the book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail's work has been featured on National Public Radio, the Guardian, The Nation, and The Progressive. He has received many awards for his reportage, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Jamail's reporting from Iraq has been published in newspapers and magazine worldwide. He has appeared on Democracy Now! as a regular guest, as well as BBC, Pacifia Radio, and numerous other networks.

"Jamail's human portrait of the men and women who turned away from the project of empire should serve as a beacon." -Chris Hedges "Dahr Jamail is one of very few journalists who have displayed the courage-physical, intellectual, and moral courage-to tell the truth about the invasion of Iraq. In this outstanding book, he describes the often secret resistance within the US military." -John Pilger "Based on his experiences as an investigative reporter in Iraq and in his frequent conversations with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Jamail vividly portrays issues of conscience for military personnel during wartime. As a woman veteran, I thank him for exposing sexual assault and rape in the military-including the warning that of women seeking help from the Veteran's Affairs, one in three has been sexually assaulted while in the military. Jamail's work provides indispensable help in our understanding of the costs of war to our own military as well as to countries the United States occupies." -Ann Wright, Retired U.S. Army Reserves Colonel and U.S. diplomat who resigned in opposition to the Iraq War