US military schools taught future leaders a genocidal total-war doctrine against Muslims

Evidence

Wired magazine’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 that were put forward was to wipe out whole cities as was done with Hiroshima and to target the “civilian population wherever necessary.” The Pentagon has since suspended such training, yet the officer responsible for giving these lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, maintains his position within the military and the “commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels” who took his course and listened to his theories have since been placed in higher-level assignments in the military. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 749

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who covers military training academies or Islamophobia — the specific course, instructor name, and career trajectory detail is both damning and citable.
• SEED: Article angle: how a genocidal training doctrine was formally suspended but its instructor and graduates were promoted — the gap between public quarantine and institutional reward.
• XREF: connects to: US military formally taught total war against all Muslims as doctrine — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 572; US military lecturers taught nuclear-style total war against Muslims; Anti-Islamic bigotry persisted inside US military training despite official condemnation — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 34 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• US military formally taught total war against all Muslims as doctrine #corroborates (0.98) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 572
• US military lecturers taught nuclear-style total war against Muslims #corroborates (0.94)
• Officers trained in genocidal anti-Muslim doctrine advanced into senior military posts. #expands (0.90)
• Anti-Islamic bigotry persisted inside US military training despite official condemnation #corroborates (0.85) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 34
• Institutionalized anti-Muslim ideology corrupts official counterterrorism training #corroborates (0.82) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 31
• The United States armed and licensed global anti-Muslim crusades #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 293
• American counterterrorism doctrine traveled to distant Muslim regions as empire #expands (0.74) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 143