Beschrijving
A decorated Marine combat pilot Naval Academy graduate reveals what he learned about American power that the history books left out.America tells one story about itself. The world sees another.After serving across Asia and the Middle East, Michael T. Lester began noticing a gap between what he was told and what he saw. The locals didn’t look liberated. The missions didn’t match the slogans. So he spent twenty years using his training as a historian to find out why.We Are The Bad Guys connects what’s usually kept separate: the coups, the sanctions, the covert operations, and the media narratives that frame them all as defensive, humanitarian, or necessary. Drawing on declassified documents, leaked cables, and the work of respected historians, this book traces a century of U.S. intervention and asks a question most Americans have never been encouraged to consider: What if we’re not the good guys?What you’ll discover: – – How U.S. wars, coups, and covert ops have reshaped nations across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia- How \
