There is a great offensive underway by elites and the far right. They have grasped control over the vast resources of the security state and are mobilizing it in a counterinsurgent military campaign. This campaign has clear tactical operations and detailed strategic plans with deep historic roots. Yet, the security state and its broad sweeping apparatus depends on people complying, assisting, and enacting the state’s demands. This need for our consent is why the legacy of GI resistance, in all its manifestations, is important to study and build on right now.

In 2006, Ehren Watada was the first officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq because he believed the war was illegal and that, under the doctrine of command responsibility, it would make him a party to war crimes. That year, his speech to

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