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Introduction: the health consequences of war / Catherine Lutz, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Andrea Mazzarino -- Afghanistan and Pakistan -- Childbirth in the context of conflict in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese -- Drone strikes and vaccination campaigns : how the war on terror helps sustain polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Svea Closser and Noah Coburn -- Remaining undone : heroin in the time of serial war / Anila Daulatzai -- Dignity under extreme duress : the moral and emotional landscape of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas / Patricia Omidian and Catherine Panter-Brick -- Iraq -- War and the public health disaster in Iraq / Scott Harding and Kathryn Libal -- The political capital of war wounds / Ghassan S. Abu-Sittah, -- Iraqis : cancer itineraries : war, medical travel, and therapeutic geographies / Mac Skelton -- War and its consequences for cancer trends and services in Iraq / Layth Mula-Hussain -- United States -- Imagining military suicide / Ken MacLeish -- Afterwar work for life / Zoh. Wool -- "It's not okay" : war's toll on health brought home to communities and environments / Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger -- Appendix : the body count / Neta Crawford.

AbstractThis article lays out the work of Costs of War, a project of scholars creating public‐facing knowledge toward the goal of challenging US militarism. Emerging from literature that critiques US imperial violence and deconstructs the commonplace understandings that support it, our efforts identify and confront pillars of belief about war that are shaped by the powerful military‐industrial complex and rooted in an underlying devaluation of the lives of Muslims, people of color, women, and oppressed groups who bear the brunt of militarization both at home and abroad. We use our research and associated website (costsofwar.org) to reach out to journalists, editors, Congress, policymakers, civic groups, social movements, and the US public. In contesting the soundbites about the post‐9/11 wars that allow these wars to be seen as inevitable and to continue uncontested, we hope to help avert the next war championed by those least likely to live with the horrific and decades‐long consequences. We describe our approach, its successes, and its stumbling blocks in hope of offering insights for scholars in the social sciences who wish to use their research in service of activist goals and social justice movements, antiwar and beyond.

Breaking Ranks brings a new and deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on extensive interviews with each of the six, the book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early missions, their tours of combat, and what has happened to them since returning home. The compelling stories of this diverse cross section of the military recount how each journey to Iraq began with the sincere desire to do good. Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Anne Lutz show how each individual's experiences led to new moral and political understandings and ultimately to opposing the war.