
None Of The Above Airstrikes in East Africa (from the archive): Catherine Besteman and Amanda Sperber on U.S. Militarism in Somalia
Though much is still to be seen, airstrikes in July and the Biden administration's touting of its "over-the-horizon capabilities" to attack a globally "metastasized" terrorist threat doesn't augur much change. Catherine and Amanda explore the history of Al Shabab and America's involvement in Somalia and argue that the human costs of current policy lay bare the strategic and moral failings of America's global war on terror.
Amanda Sperber is a Nairobi-based award-winning investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and multimedia storyteller. Her work focuses on East Africa, specifically on Somalia, and the consequences of U.S. drone strikes.
Catherine Besteman is Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College in Maine. Her work focuses on U.S. militarism in Somalia. She is the author of The Costs of War in Somalia from Brown University's Costs of War Project, and Militarized Global Apartheid (2020).
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