How long does it take to read Dirty Wars?
Jeremy Scahill, Íñigo García Ureta, Albino Santos Mosquera
Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill, Íñigo García Ureta, Albino Santos Mosquera takes about 12 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 681 pages, about 187,275 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this book the author of "Blackwater," takes us inside America's new covert wars. As he reveals, the foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies of America. Funded through "black budgets", Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted killings, snatch and grab individuals and direct drone, AC-130 cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, President Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. This book follows the consequences of the declaraion that "the world is a battlefield", as the author uncovers this important foreign policy story. From Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and beyond the author reports from the frontlines in this high-stakes investigation and explores the depths of America's global killing machine. He goes beneath the surface of these covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective congressional oversight or public debate. He unmasks the shadow warriors who execute these secret wars and puts a human face on the casualties of violence that is now official policy as he tells the story of an American citizen marked for assassination by his own government. -- From book jacket.
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects, Government policy, Military History, Military policy, Intelligence service, Prevention
