US military lecturers taught nuclear-style total war against Muslims

Evidence

Wired’s investigative reporting found that the “U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists.” Among the various options put forward were to wipe out whole cities (as was done with Hiroshima) and to target the “civilian population wherever necessary.” While the Pentagon has since suspended such training, the officer responsible for giving these lectures maintains his position within the military: the “commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels” who took his course and listened to his rants have since been promoted to higher-level assignments. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 572 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

European instructors in Muslim military academies made it necessary, for the first time, for young Mus­ lim cadets to view Europeans as dispensers of useful knowledge and not merely as infidels and barbarians. And the steady advance of European power—penetration, encroachment, domination, in some areas even annexation—was finally bringing increasing numbers of Muslim statesmen and soldiers to the view that a better understanding of this Western world was essential to their survival. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1075 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US military schools taught future leaders a genocidal total-war doctrine against Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 749; US military formally taught total war against all Muslims as doctrine — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 572; European military instructors reframed Westerners as knowledge sources in Muslim eyes — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1075 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• US military formally taught total war against all Muslims as doctrine #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 572
• European military instructors reframed Westerners as knowledge sources in Muslim eyes #complicates (0.80) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1075